- "Pro Patria" redirects here. For the Estonian political party, see Pro Patria Union. For the Roman lyric, see Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
Aurora Pro Patria 1919[1] (commonly known and referred to as simply Pro Patria) is an Italian football club, based in Busto Arsizio, Lombardy. The club was founded in 1919. Pro Patria currently plays in Serie C1/A, having last been in Serie A in 1956. The team's colors are white and blue.
In Latin, Pro Patria means "For the Fatherland". The team players' collective nickname is "i tigrotti" (the little tigers).
History
The club is direct heir of the homonymous club who played fourteen times in Serie A during the first half of the 20th century, the last time being in 1955–56. In 1996 the original club folded, and Gallarate-based Serie C2 club Gallaratese agreed to a legal merger in order to keep the historical brand alive. The new club, renamed Pro Patria Gallaratese G.B. (G.B. being for Gallarate and Busto Arsizio, respectively), playing in the fourth tier until 2002, when the club won promotion to Serie C1 after playoffs. In 2008 the club was relegated to Serie C2 after losing playoffs to Hellas Verona by 2-1 aggregate, but was later readmitted to Lega Pro Prima Divisione to fill a vacancy.
On June 2008, a club takeover was completed, and ambitious plans for a return to Serie B were unveiled. However, impressive performances in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione 2008–09 were sided by financial troubles that led to the club being declared folded by the local magistrature in April 2009 due to excessive financial debts. Th cub's president was later jailed and has to stand charges of bankruptcy; the run to Serie B came to nothing in the most bitter of ways, badly losing the home return match of the playoff final against Padova, which played with 10 men after an early expulsion. The team had later to be completely reconstructed from scratch by the new management (led by the Tesoro family, construction businessmen from Apulia) and is presently (October 2009) struggling to avoid falling into fourth series again.[2]
Current squad
Selected former players
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1990–91 · 1991–92 · 1992–93 · 1993–94 · 1994–95 · 1995–96 · 1996–97 · 1997–98 · 1998–99 · 1999–2000
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Ladislao Kubala
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