Atletico Roma Football Club was an Italian

Italy

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 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club, based in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, Lazio. It was the third most popular team of the Italian capital city.

From Lodigiani to Cisco Lodigiani

The club was founded in 1972 as A.S. Lodigiani.

A.S. Lodigiani was known for having one of the finest Italian youth systems, with players such as Luigi Apolloni

Luigi Apolloni

Luigi Apolloni is a retired Italian football player, who last served as head coach of Serie B club Grosseto.- Club career :...

, Valerio Fiori

Valerio Fiori

Valerio Fiori is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently a goalkeeping coach at Serie A club Milan.-Career:...

, Emiliano Moretti

Emiliano Moretti

Emiliano Moretti is an Italian football defender, who currently plays for Genoa C.F.C..-Club career:Moretti started his career with local club Lodigiani, and in 2000 transferred to AC Fiorentina. He made his Serie A debut in March 2001, and was a member of the team that won the 2001 Coppa Italia....

, Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti, Ufficiale OMRI, is an Italian footballer who is the captain of Serie A club Roma. His primary position is that of a trequartista, though he has also been successfully utilized as a lone striker. Totti has spent his entire career at Roma, is the number-one goalscorer and the most...

 and Antonio Candreva

Antonio Candreva

Antonio Candreva is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Cesena on loan from Udinese. He usually plays in a more central role as a play maker but can also play out wide in a three-man midfield.-Ternana:...

 among its former youth team footballers.

In 2003-04 Serie C2 it was bought by the family Tulli of Cisco

Cisco Systems

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, already owners of Cisco Calcio in Serie D

Serie D

Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

 (formerly called Cisco Tor Sapienza and Cisco Collatino) which becomes Lupa Frascati

A.S.D. Lupa Frascati

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Lupa Frascati is an Italian association football club located in Frascati, Lazio.It currently plays in Eccellenza Lazio/B.Its colors are all-dark red.- The foundation :...

, the next season.

In 2004-05 Serie C2 Lodigiani was so renamed A.S. Cisco Lodigiani.

The team's colors were red and white.

The new Lodigiani

In 2005, was founded A.S.D. Lodigiani Calcio, by some of the old club's directors, that becomes so the new Lodigiani, playing in the regional levels.

Cisco Roma

In the season 2005-06 it was renamed A.S. Cisco Calcio Roma (referred to as simply Cisco Roma).

Cisco Roma played from 2005-06 to 2009-10 in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione (formerly called Serie C2), although it started the 2006-07 Serie C2 season with great ambitions of promotion, after signing former Celtic

Celtic F.C.

Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

, Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are a football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, who are currently competing in the Football League One in the 2011-12 season, in England. Sheffield Wednesday are one of the oldest professional clubs in the world and the fourth oldest in the...

, West Ham

West Ham United F.C.

West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. They play in The Football League Championship. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current...

, Charlton

Charlton Athletic F.C.

Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...

 and Lazio

S.S. Lazio

Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...

 star Paolo Di Canio

Paolo Di Canio

Paolo Di Canio is a Italian former professional footballer and current manager of League Two side Swindon Town. Di Canio made over 500 league appearances and scored over 100 league goals as a player....

: it finished 2nd in Serie C2/C, but lost to Reggiana

A.C. Reggiana 1919

Associazione Calcio Reggiana 1919 is an Italian association football club, based in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1919 as A.C. Reggiana and refounded in July 2005 as Reggio Emilia F.C., but it was renamed A.C. Reggiana 1919 soon after the start of the 2005–06 season. The...

 in the promotion playoffs semifinals.

On 11 June 2009 it was bought by Mario and Davide Ciaccia which immediately relaunch the team that in fact at the end of the 2009-10 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione season, was promoted to Prima Divisione as play-off winners.

Atletico Roma

On 7 July 2010, the club changed its name to Atletico Roma F.C. and its colors to blue and white, to distance itself from Lodigiani's history and abandon a corporate name, as both Lodigiani and Cisco are firms based in Rome.

On July 18, 2011 it is not admitted by the Federal Council in Lega Pro Prima Divisione and excluded from professional football.

Notable former players

Luigi Apolloni

Luigi Apolloni

Luigi Apolloni is a retired Italian football player, who last served as head coach of Serie B club Grosseto.- Club career :...

 (youth squad) David Di Michele

David di Michele

David Di Michele is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Lecce.-Club career:Di Michele, whose mother is from Casarano, began his career with Lodigiani in the Italian Serie C1 near to his hometown Guidonia, and played for them from 1993 to 1996...

 Valerio Fiori

Valerio Fiori

Valerio Fiori is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently a goalkeeping coach at Serie A club Milan.-Career:...

 (youth squad) Emiliano Moretti

Emiliano Moretti

Emiliano Moretti is an Italian football defender, who currently plays for Genoa C.F.C..-Club career:Moretti started his career with local club Lodigiani, and in 2000 transferred to AC Fiorentina. He made his Serie A debut in March 2001, and was a member of the team that won the 2001 Coppa Italia....

 (youth squad) Andrea Silenzi

Andrea Silenzi

Andrea Silenzi is a retired Italian footballer who played as a centre forward.He was known for his goal-poaching ability, but at a highly inconsistent level. The scorer of 89 league goals during his career, Silenzi was also the first Italian to play in the Premier League, when he signed with...

 Luca Toni

Luca Toni

Luca Toni, Ufficiale OMRI is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who currently plays for Serie A club Juventus. He has had successful spells at top clubs such as Palermo, Fiorentina, Bayern Munich, and Roma...

 Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti, Ufficiale OMRI, is an Italian footballer who is the captain of Serie A club Roma. His primary position is that of a trequartista, though he has also been successfully utilized as a lone striker. Totti has spent his entire career at Roma, is the number-one goalscorer and the most...

 (youth squad) Paolo Di Canio

Paolo Di Canio

Paolo Di Canio is a Italian former professional footballer and current manager of League Two side Swindon Town. Di Canio made over 500 league appearances and scored over 100 league goals as a player....

 Fabio Firmani

Fabio Firmani

Fabio Firmani is an Italian footballer who plays for Shaanxi Renhe Commercial Chanba F.C. in China, as a midfielder.-Club career:...

 Mauro Esposito

Mauro Esposito

Mauro Esposito is an Italian footballer who plays for Atletico Roma FC mainly as a right winger.-Club career:...

 Antonio Candreva

Antonio Candreva

Antonio Candreva is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Cesena on loan from Udinese. He usually plays in a more central role as a play maker but can also play out wide in a three-man midfield.-Ternana:...

 (youth squad) Daniel Bogdanovic

Daniel Bogdanovic

Danijel Bogdanović , more commonly spelled Daniel Bogdanović, is a Maltese professional footballer of Serb descent who plays as a striker for Blackpool.- Playing career :...