En/Fantapazzo
 I Nerazzurri | |
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| Club colours: | Blue, Black, White |
| Badge: | Fleur-de-lis |
| Club info | |
| City: | Florence |
| Country: |  Italy
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| Geographic zone: | Latin Europe |
| Continent: | Europe |
| League: | VI.300 |
| Foundation: | August 22, 2008 (Season 36) |
| Owner: | SuperCash
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| Palmares | |
| Series VIII: | 1 (Season 41) |
| Series IX: | 1 (Season 40) |
| Series X: | 1 (Season 38) |
| Series XI: | 1 (Season 37) |
| Ground | |
| Fanta Stadium (Capacity: 32.000) 
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| Website | |
| Fantapazzo Official Website http://www.ht-arena.com/fantapazzo/ | |
Fantapazzo is an italian Hattrick team. It was founded by SuperCash on 20 August 2008, and it has its headquarters in Florence, to be more precise in the nearby town of Campi Bisenzio. Currently it competes in VI.300 of Italian Hattrick Championship.
History
The birth of the team
Fantapazzo was born at the end of season 36. SuperCash, during summer 2008, was convinced by AndrewRozza, Marci90 and Tex93 to create a Hattrick team. Thus on 22 August 2010 Fantapazzo was officially born. SuperCash took his first steps in Hattrick world with the help of his three friends and began to make himself familiar with team management. This was the beginning of Fantapazzo's Hattrick adventure.
The first steps and the first climb
The team was put in the XI.2236, but at the time of the registration it was just 5 days away from the end of the championship. Fantapazzo won 4 of its first 5 matches and ranked 5th in Season 36. In the meantime SuperCash laid the basis for a competitive team by buying young midfielders and strengthening attack and defense. In addition the brazilian Nelson Nobre was signed as coach. Thus in Season 37 dominated the championship and finished with a perfect score, gaining its first historical promotion. Meanwhile the team grew further with the signing of the young Piero Bozzi, one of the future most important player of club history. In Season 38 Fantapazzo played in the X.3104. At the beginning the goal was to avoid relegation, but soon the team led by Nobre proved to be the very best in the league, thanks to the skill-trading policy undertaken by the club, and repeated the previous season success by gaining the promotion in the XI series with a perfect score. Fantapazzo took just 2 seasons to move from XI to IX series.
The end of skill-trading and the second great climb
Fantapazzo met the first difficulties, due to the early promotion in the IX series. The Nerazzurri was afraid of competing against the strong team who played in the IX.1747 and pessimism spread in the club. However only two teams proved to be better than Fantapazzo and the team, led by new coach Tibi Sãftoiu, made a good championship and ranked 3rd in Season 39. In Season 40 SuperCash decided to change the policy of the club and replaced skill-trading with long-term training. This new policy, much more profitable for seasons ahead, entailed a temporary stalemate in the economy of the club, which had to face transfer market without money. Despite this, the team took advantage of the absence of stonger teams and won the championship, gaining the promotion in the VIII series. At the end of the season Paul King replaced Tibi Sãftoiu. In Season 41 Fantapazzo played in the VIII.247. The initial goal was to avoid relegation, but the team exploited the first benefits of the new policy to strengthen and won the championship on the last day. Pessimism wrapped againg SuperCash, who saw in the double promotion a danger of failure. But in Season 42 Fantapazzo played another great championship and gained the third promotion in a row, despite ranking 2nd in the VII.226. A fantastic achievement for the Nerazzurri, that were able to move from IX to VI series in 3 seasons. In this season Fantapazzo also made its debut in Coppa Italia, where it was eliminated in the 2nd round.
The struggles in the VI Series
Fantapazzo faced Season 43 with the goal of avoiding relegation. This time the difference with the lower category was bigger and SuperCash's perplexities was supported by the poor results of the team. But despite some large losses Fantapazzo managed to obtain precious points, even with a bit of luck, and avoided relegation, ranking 5th at the end. During the break SuperCash traded many players, strenghtening defense in particular. The team began Season 44 with the expectations of an easy salvation, but the results wasn't good and Fantapazzo fell into relegation zone. Fortunately the team recovered and left the last two spots, ranking 5th for the second straight time. In the third season in the VI.300 series Fantapazzo finally struck a balance in this league. The team was more or less the same of the previous season, but this time the results were positive. At the end of Season 45 Fantapazzo ranked 4th, quietly far from the relegation zone it had been so close to in the first two seasons in the VI series.
The New Frontier
Back from a quiet salvation SuperCash decided to start a new interesting project called Nuova Frontiera (New Frontier). Because of the economic difficulties, above all due to high wages, every season Fantapazzo needed to sell its best midfielder. With the New Frontier the club began to buy young central defenders and train them in playmaking. Moreover these future midfielders had to be italian in order to pay a lower wage. Thus the first young defenders were bought, together with the first attacking midfielder in the history of the club. In addition Nicola Gasbarro became the first ever youth player to play as first-string in the first team. In Season 46 Fantapazzo permanently occupied the middle-high zone of the ranking. Despite the constant renewal, in fact, the team managed to be a match for all the best teams in the league and at the end ranked 3rd.
List of seasons
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Head coaches
| Head coaches of Fantapazzo | |
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Individual records
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Top Scorers
| Top Scorers | |
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Winners of the top goalscorer award highlighted in bold.
Current squad
| No. | Nat. | Pos. | Player | No. | Nat. | Pos. | Player | ||
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| 1 |  |
GK | Merijn Köhler | 12 | |
GK | Simon Geismar | ||
| 2 | |
WB | Viggo Smits | 13 |  |
CD | Roland Böhm | ||
| 3 |  |
WB | Laurent Célestine | 14 |  |
WB | Nicholas Di Giuseppe | ||
| 4 |  |
CD | Ilias Gränacher | 15 | |
IM | Giuseppe Brugnone | ||
| 5 |  |
CD | Oldřich Šmoldas | 16 | |
IM | Giovanni Picariello | ||
| 6 | |
IM | Nicola Gasbarro | 17 | |
FW | Leo Haak | ||
| 7 |  |
W | Sascha Schwarck | 18 |  |
IM | Calvin Shepherd | ||
| 8 |  |
IM | Nils Olsen | 19 |  |
W | Jędrzej Gapa | ||
| 9 | |
FW | Massimo Soriani | 20 | |
FW | Arnaud Mérel | ||
| 10 |  |
FW | Sansón Arbián | 21 | |
CD | Enrique Quevedo Solís | ||
| 11 | |
W | Pier Federico Vianello | 22 | |
W | Ignacio Horachita |
| Head coach: |  Aadalbert Eesik
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Youth team
Fantapazzo also has a youth team, called Fantapazzo Juniores. The team plays in the youth league Active Young Championship where it won 2 titles.
