2008–09 Genoa C.F.C. season

Genoa C.F.C.
2008–09 season
Chairman	Enrico Preziosi
Manager	Gian Piero Gasperini
Serie A	5th
Coppa Italia	Last 16
Top goalscorer	Diego Milito (24)
	← 2007-08 2009-10 →

Last updated August 01, 2019

Genoa C.F.C. enjoyed its best season in recent history and finished fifth in Serie A. Topscorer Diego Milito hit the back of the net 24 times, and earned a move to Inter prior to the 2009-10 season. The ex-player and 29-year-old Argentinian Milito, arrived from relegated Spanish side Real Zaragoza, and the returnee performed his best season yet. Thanks to his goals and Thiago Motta's midfield display, Genoa finished in the top 5, and nearly pipped Fiorentina to the final Champions League spot. Motta was also sold to Inter in the summer, which left a huge fold in the Genoa squad.

Genoa C.F.C. professional Italian association football and cricket club

Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to as Genoa, is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa, Liguria. Established on 7 September 1893, it is Italy's fourth oldest football team, and the oldest active Italian football team, with 125 years of activity.

Serie A, also called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa Campioni d'Italia. It has been operating as a round-robin tournament for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been organized by the Direttorio Divisioni Superiori until 1943 and the Lega Calcio until 2010, when the Lega Serie A was created for the 2010–11 season. Serie A is regarded as one of the best football leagues in the world and it is often depicted as the most tactical national league. Serie A was the world's second-strongest national league in 2014 according to IFFHS. Serie A is ranked third among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient, behind La Liga and the Premier League, and ahead of the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the Europa League during the last five years. Serie A led the UEFA ranking from 1986 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1999.

Diego Alberto Milito is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Squad

Goalkeepers

Defenders

Alessandro Potenza is an Italian footballer who played as a defender and current manager of Fidelis Andria in Serie D.

Domenico "Mimmo" Criscito is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Genoa as a left-back. Criscito played for Italian clubs Genoa and Juventus. A full international since 2009, he represented the Italian national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. A versatile player, Criscito is effective both offensively and defensively, and is also capable of playing as a wing-back, or as a central defender, a position which he often occupied in his early career.

Matteo Ferrari is a retired Italian footballer who played as a defender. He played top-flight football for several Italian clubs in Serie A, Everton of the Premier League, and for the Montreal Impact in Major League Soccer. He was usually deployed as a centre-back, although he was capable of playing anywhere along the back-line.

Midfielders

Nicolás Mario Domingo is an Argentine football midfielder who currently plays for Argentine Primera División side Independiente.

Marcel Nicolás Román Núñez is an Uruguayan footballer who most recently played for Oriente Petrolero.

Andrea Gasbarroni is an Italian footballer who plays for AC Bra as a midfielder.

Attackers

Giuseppe Sculli is a retired Italian footballer who played in several positions; primarily a striker, he could play anywhere along the front-line, and also played as a winger, as a second striker, and even as a right-sided midfielder or as a wingback on the right flank.

Luciano Gabriel "Lucho" Figueroa Herrera is an Argentine former professional footballer who last played as a forward for Johor Darul Ta'zim of the Malaysia Super League. He is currently working as team manager and head coach for Johor Darul Ta'zim.

Raffaele Palladino is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Monza.

Serie A

Pos	Team [ v t e ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Milan	38	22	8	8	70	35	+35	74^{[lower-alpha 1]}	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Group stage
4	Fiorentina	38	21	5	12	53	38	+15	68^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Play-off round
5	Genoa	38	19	11	8	56	39	+17	68^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Play-off round ^{[lower-alpha 3]}
6	Roma	38	18	9	11	64	61	+3	63	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
7	Udinese	38	16	10	12	61	50	+11	58

Source: lega-calcio.it ‹See Tfd› (in Italian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
Notes:

↑ JUV 4–2 MIL; MIL 1–1 JUV
1 2 FIO 1–0 GEN; GEN 3–3 FIO
↑ Lazio qualified for the play-off round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League by winning the 2008–09 Coppa Italia.

Matches

Catania-Genoa 1-0
1-0 Giuseppe Mascara (60)
Genoa-Milan 2-0
1-0 Giuseppe Sculli (30)
2-0 Diego Milito (90 + 1 pen)
Palermo-Genoa 2-1
1-0 Edinson Cavani (38)
2-0 Cesare Bovo (58)
2-1 Diego Milito (90)
Genoa-Roma 3-1
1-0 Giuseppe Sculli (4)
1-1 Daniele De Rossi (28)
2-1 Diego Milito (61)
3-1 Diego Milito (87)
Fiorentina-Genoa 1-0
1-0 Alberto Gilardino (61)
Genoa-Napoli 3-2
0-1 Ezequiel Lavezzi (1)
1-1 Sokratis Papastathopoulos (44)
2-1 Raffaele Palladino (52)
3-1 Diego Milito (73)
3-2 Germán Denis (75)
Genoa-Siena 1-0
1-0 Giuseppe Biava (20)
Inter-Genoa 0-0
Genoa-Cagliari 2-1
1-0 Sokratis Papastathopoulos (25)
2-0 Thiago Motta (56)
2-1 Paolo Bianco (66)
Udinese-Genoa 2-2
1-0 Gaetano D'Agostino (4 pen)
1-1 Diego Milito (64 pen)
1-2 Giuseppe Sculli (67)
2-2 Fabio Quagliarella (78)
Genoa-Reggina 4-0
1-0 Diego Milito (54 pen)
2-0 Diego Milito (74)
3-0 Giuseppe Sculli (81)
4-0 Diego Milito (90)
Juventus-Genoa 4-1
1-0 Zdeněk Grygera (6)
2-0 Amauri (26)
3-0 Vincenzo Iaquinta (85)
3-1 Diego Milito (89 pen)
4-1 Sokratis Papastathopoulos (90 + 2 og)
Lazio-Genoa 1-1
0-1 Diego Milito (69)
1-1 Ousmane Dabo (80)
Genoa-Bologna 1-1
1-0 Giuseppe Sculli (55)
1-1 Marco Di Vaio (63)
Sampdoria-Genoa 0-1
0-1 Diego Milito (50)
Genoa-Atalanta 1-1
0-1 Sergio Floccari (17)
1-1 Giuseppe Sculli (86)
Chievo-Genoa 0-1
0-1 Rubén Olivera (89)
Genoa-Torino 3-0
1-0 Giuseppe Biava (18)
2-0 Boško Janković (48)
3-0 Thiago Motta (84)
Lecce-Genoa 0-2
0-1 Boško Janković (68)
0-2 Giuseppe Sculli (90 + 2)
Genoa-Catania 1-1
0-1 Jorge Martínez (67)
1-1 Diego Milito (73)
Milan-Genoa 1-1
1-0 David Beckham (33)
1-1 Diego Milito (88)
Genoa-Palermo 1-0
1-0 Domenico Criscito (88)
Roma-Genoa 3-0
1-0 Cicinho (26)
2-0 Mirko Vučinić (47)
3-0 Júlio Baptista (90 + 2)
Genoa-Fiorentina 3-3
1-0 Thiago Motta (12)
2-0 Raffaele Palladino (38)
3-0 Diego Milito (56 pen)
3-1 Adrian Mutu (60 pen)
3-2 Adrian Mutu (80)
3-3 Adrian Mutu (90 + 4)
Napoli-Genoa 0-1
0-1 Boško Janković (69)
Siena-Genoa 0-0
Genoa-Inter 0-2
0-1 Zlatan Ibrahimović (2)
0-2 Mario Balotelli (61)
Cagliari-Genoa 0-1
0-1 Rubén Olivera (85)
Genoa-Udinese 2-0
1-0 Giuseppe Sculli (59)
2-0 Diego Milito (90 + 3)
Reggina-Genoa 0-1
0-1 Thiago Motta (77)
Genoa-Juventus 3-2
1-0 Thiago Motta (29)
1-1 Alessandro Del Piero (45 pen)
2-1 Thiago Motta (45 + 3)
2-2 Vincenzo Iaquinta (84)
3-2 Raffaele Palladino (88)
Genoa-Lazio 0-1
0-1 Mauro Zárate (65)
Bologna-Genoa 2-0
1-0 Marco Di Vaio (15 pen)
2-0 Claudio Terzi (25)
Genoa-Sampdoria 3-1
1-0 Diego Milito (30)
1-1 Hugo Campagnaro (45 + 3)
2-1 Diego Milito (73)
3-1 Diego Milito (90 + 3)
Atalanta-Genoa 1-1
1-0 Jaime Valdés (9)
1-1 Domenico Criscito (90)
Genoa-Chievo 2-2
0-1 Giampiero Pinzi (35)
1-1 Diego Milito (58 pen)
2-1 Rubén Olivera (71)
2-2 Sergio Pellissier (85)
Torino-Genoa 2-3
0-1 Diego Milito (32 pen)
1-1 Ivan Franceschini (40)
1-2 Rubén Olivera (48)
2-2 Rolando Bianchi (49)
2-3 Diego Milito (89)
Genoa-Lecce 4-1
1-0 Boško Janković (22)
1-1 Simone Tiribocchi (32)
2-1 Domenico Criscito (52)
3-1 Diego Milito (56)
4-1 Diego Milito (67)

Calcio Catania, commonly referred to as Catania, is an Italian football club founded in 1929 and based in Catania, Sicily. They currently compete in Serie C, the third tier of the Italian football league system, and host home games at the Stadio Angelo Massimino.

Giuseppe Mascara is an Italian football coach and former player who played as a striker or a wide forward. He is currently in charge as head coach of Sicilian amateurs Giarre.

Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan, is a professional football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons, in the top flight of Italian football, known as Serie A since 1929–30.

Topscorers

Thiago Motta is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Rubén Ariel Olivera da Rosa is a retired Uruguayan footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the technical director of Latina Calcio 1932.

External links

2008–09 Genoa C.F.C. season at ESPN

[table_hth_JUV0.15222263995196-1] JUV 4–2 MIL; MIL 1–1 JUV

[table_hth_FIO0.15222263995196-2] 1 2 FIO 1–0 GEN; GEN 3–3 FIO

[table_note_res_ELPR0.15222263995196-3] Lazio qualified for the play-off round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League by winning the 2008–09 Coppa Italia.