Stadio Luigi Ferraris - U.C. Sampdoria - The World Stadium Tour

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The Stadio comunale Luigi Ferraris, also known as the Marassi from the name of the neighbourhood where it is located, is a multi-use stadium in Genoa, Italy.
The home of Genoa C.F.C. U.C. football club, it opened in 1911 and is the oldest stadium still in use for football and other sports in Italy.
Aside from football, the stadium has hosted meetings of rugby in the Italian national rugby team and, more rarely, some concerts.
The stadium is named after Luigi Ferraris (1887–1915), an Italian footballer, engineer and soldier who died during WWI.
The stadium was inaugurated on 22 January 1911 with a football match between Genoa and Internazionale, and had a capacity of 20,000.
The stadium was dismantled and rebuilt before the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
The highest attendance at the Luigi Ferraris was 60,000 on 27 February 1949, for a match between Italy and Portugal.
Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to as Genoa (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒeːnoa]), is a professional football club based in Genoa, Liguria, Italy.
The team competes in the Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system.
Established in 1893, Genoa is Italy's oldest extant football team.
The club has won the Italian Championship nine times, with their first being Italy's inaugural national championship in 1898 and their most recent coming after the 1923–24 season.
They also hold one Coppa Italia title.
Overall, Genoa are the fourth most successful Italian club in terms of championships won.
Il Grifone have played their home games at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris since 1911, which they share with local rivals UC Sampdoria.
The fixture between the two teams, known as the Derby della Lanterna, was first contested in 1946.
As Genoa was a British-run club, the first ever colours were those of the England national football team.
Not long into the club's footballing history, the kit was changed to white and blue stripes in 1899 the blue was chosen to represent the sea as Genoa is a port city.
In 1901 the club finally settled for their most famous red and blue halves shirt, this gained them the nickname of rossoblù together with Bologna, Cagliari and many more minor clubs.
One of the nicknames of Genoa is Il Grifone which means "the griffin" this is derived from the coat of arms belonging to the city of Genoa.
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