{"id":6006,"date":"2025-05-14T04:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sampdoria-relegated-to-serie-c-historic-sadness-for-the-italian-giant\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T04:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:09:19","slug":"sampdoria-relegated-to-serie-c-historic-sadness-for-the-italian-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/sampdoria-relegated-to-serie-c-historic-sadness-for-the-italian-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampdoria Relegated to Serie C: Historic Sadness for the Italian Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sampdoria, former Serie A champion and European Cup finalist, has been relegated to the third division of Italian football for the first time in its 78-year history.<\/p>\n\n<p>The team sealed its fate after a goalless draw against Juve Stabia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sampdoria won their only top-flight title in 1991, during a golden era for the club, led by the &#8220;Goals Twins&#8221;, Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini, who terrorized Italian defenses.<\/p>\n\n<p>However, the team has not won a trophy since the 1994 Coppa Italia.<\/p>\n\n<p>After being relegated from Serie A in 2023, they will play in Serie C next season, after failing to qualify for the relegation play-offs.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sampdoria&#8217;s season began with Andrea Pirlo, 2006 world champion, as coach. However, a series of changes in the coaching staff led to the appointment of Alberico Evani, former AC Milan midfielder, in April, in a desperate effort to avoid relegation, but he failed to keep the team in the category.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sampdoria, former Serie A champion and European Cup finalist, has been relegated to the third division of Italian football for the first time in its 78-year history. The team sealed its fate after a goalless draw against Juve Stabia on Tuesday. Sampdoria won their only top-flight title in 1991, during a golden era for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2125,1479,2126,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-6006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-pirlo","9":"tag-relegation","10":"tag-sampdoria","11":"tag-serie-a"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}