The Past Story of Parma Calcio triumph in the world of football.

The Past Story of Parma Calcio triumph in the world of football.

In the 1990s the Italian Serie A League was the most prestigious football competition in the world, great players such as Zinedine Zidane, Hernan Crespo, Gabriel Batistuta to Ronaldo had played in the country of pizza in that decade.

The Italian Serie A League is also very competitive, there are seven teams, namely Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, AS Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina and Parma who consistently compete tightly every season, from the 7 teams Parma is a club that is unable to maintain its status as a big team until now.

Even though from 1990 to 2004 Parma was one of the leading teams in Italy, they consistently qualified for European competitions for 14 consecutive seasons, their slick appearance in European competitions led to 4 trophies during that period. Parma glory began when Ernesto Ceresini, a construction entrepreneur, became president of the club in 1976, when Parma was in the third caste or Serie C in Italy.

After years of playing in Serie C and Serie B slowly but surely Parma progress began to go well when they appointed Erie Gosa as coach in 1985. Successfully promoting Parma back to Serie B after briefly occupying Serie C in the 1985 season, shows Parma really really became the starting point of glory, in his second season in charge of the Parma club for the second time, Parma beat AC Milan twice in the Coppa Italia.

At the end of the 1986/1987 season when preparing to accept an offer to coach at AC Milan, the Italian multinational dairy company Parmalat sponsored Parma and bought a minority stake, on the way Parmalat became a successful company bringing Parma respected not only in Italy but also throughout Europe. .

After leaving for Milan the position of the coach was replaced by Zdenek Zeman and Giampieri Vitali, dissatisfied with the performance of the previous coach of Parma management and then appointed Nevio Scala in 1989, this man then brought Parma promotion to Serie A for the first time in the history of the club's founding. Parma was promoted to Serie A in May 1990 or exactly three months after the club president Ernesto Ceresini died of a heart attack, the club president was then replaced by Ernesto's son, Fulvio Ceresini.

Reaching promotion to Serie A after in the last week of Serie B defeating Regina with a score of 2-0, in order to experience an adventure in Italy's top caste competition for the first time Parma bought three players who impressed at the 1990 World Cup they were Brazilian goalkeeper Claudio Taffarel, defender Belgium's George Town and Sweden's Tomas Brolin.

Even though they have played in Serie A and Serie B, confusion surrounds Parma where they do not yet have a permanent team training ground, Parma sometimes train in a park or the field of a neighboring village. According to defender Luigi Apolini this was one of the factors in Parma's success, it was a team that was born, right there that grew up in the middle of the city's public parks.

Parma's inaugural season in the Italian Serie A was passed by finishing in sixth place in the final standings, striker Tomas Brolin scored seven goals that season, Parma's glory was then continued the following season by still maintaining sixth position in the Italian Serie A, and won the Coppa Italia after silencing Juventus in finals.

The Parma squad at that time was still decorated with a number of names who had fought since they were still playing in Serie B including team captain Lorenzo Minotti, with a potential team that did not yet have a name but managed to achieve extraordinary achievements, Parma immediately won sympathy from various football fans after their 1993 managed to win the winners' Cup for the first time.

Parma seemed unstoppable on their way to the title, Parma beat Sparta Prague and Atletico Madrid in the early stages and then beat Royal Antwerp in the final, during which time their new signing Faustino Asprilla scored a total of four goals for his first European title.

This made club president Fulvio Ceresini very happy, this achievement motivated the team to return to achieve more results in the future, in order to smooth out the team management's intention to spend 20 billion Italian lira to buy Gianfranco Zola and Nestor Sensini in the summer of 1993. In the summer of 1993. the following year Parma again achieved a sensational achievement by winning the European Super Cup, the title was obtained after defeating AC Milan, the team that won the Champions League that year. In the same year Parma also again qualified for the winner's cup final but they had to give up on Arsenal, in the following season, in 1995 Parma grabbed the UEFA Cup trophy, Parma won the event after beating Juventus 2-1 on aggregate, for this achievement the total Parma has collected four prestigious trophies since 1990.

Parm's Success To emerge as stealing a strong team that kept a number of top players coming in. In 1995, Parma landed Ballon d'Or winner Hristo Stoitchkov, two young Italian stars Fabio Cannavaro and Filippo Inzaghi. A year later Hernan Crespo, Lilian Thuram, Enrico Chiesa were also recruited and Juan Sebastian Veron joined in 1998, Parma could not recruit these players without Parmalat.

The emergence of this regional phenomenon in 1990 cannot be separated from the orbit of the milk-producing company, the players who later brought Parma to embrace the 1998/1999 UEFA Cup trophy while being coached by Alberto Malesani, Parma won the 1999 UEFA Cup after defeating Bordeaux in the quarter-finals of Atletico Madrid in semifinal and silenced Marseille three zero in the final match. In the same season Parma also won the Coppa Italia, not satisfied with only two trophies Alberto Malesani helped Parma win the 1991 Italian Super Cup after beating AC Milan, in 2001-2002 Parma again grabbed the Coppa Italia trophy after winning over Juventus.

Two years after winning his third Coppa Italia, then club president Stefano Tanzi held a press conference, surprising him to announce the financial condition of Parmalat's bankruptcy. Disaster for Parmalat means disaster for Parma too, the impact of the crisis that occurred was immediately felt on the gridiron, Parma stumbled across the season in the Italian League at the end of the 2004/2005 season.

Parma was only able to finish in 17th position and had to undergo a play-off match against Bologna to ensure survival in Serie A the following season, in that play-off match Parma won 2-1 on aggregate and ensured survival in Serie A. Headquartered at the Stadio Ennio Tardini it did not last long because the following season was relegated to Serie B Italian League after only being able to occupy the 19th position in the last standings.

After only one season playing in Serie B they were promoted back to Serie A with the new owner who bought Parma in early 2007 Tommaso Ghirardi, after that Parma experienced ups and downs every season sometimes being able to stay in the middle board, on other occasions stumbling and almost getting relegated. .

The peak of Parma's decline occurred in the early 2010s when the financial crisis caused this club to drop caste to become a mediocre club, due to the acute financial crisis that led to their bankruptcy falling to Serie D in 2015, but three years later they have returned to Serie A with a record achievement in the form of three promotions in three consecutive seasons.

However, their performance was unstable again in the Italian Serie A until finally they are still struggling in the second tier of the Italian League, competing in the Italian Serie B this season Parma have high hopes of returning to the Italian Serie A. This season they have been strengthened by some great players such as Gianluigi Buffon, Danilo, Juric, Vasquez, Traoré, Colombi and Benedyczak. All of these players are experienced players who have been around the world of football for a long time, and have even defended several big European clubs.

Will I Gialloblù return to its glory like a few years ago..? We are waiting for his resurrection.