FC Guardia is a Vaticanesefootball club that currently plays in the Vatican City Championship, the top level of football in Vatican City. The current club president is Christoph Graf and the current managers are Fabio Bortoluzzi and Antonio Maria.[1] The team, like all Vatican clubs, plays its matches at the Campo Cardinale Francis Joseph Spellman in Rome, Italy.[2] Despite being founded in 1924, the team has never won the league championship.[3][4][5] The squad consists of members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard.[6]
In October 2017 the team was a guest of German football club FC Bayern Munich, touring their facilities and meeting with its Italian head coach Carlo Ancelotti.[7]
References
^"FC Guardia" (PDF) (in Italian). Sport in Vaticano. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
^"Storia" (in Italian). Sport in Vaticano. Archived from the original on 25 December 2022. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
^Mattei, Giampala. "Lo scudetto vaticano? Ai Gendarmi E per gli Svizzeri "zero tituli"" (in Italian). L'Osservatore Romano. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
^Rota, Davide. "Vatican City-List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
^"Albo d'Oro" (in Italian). Sport in Vaticano. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
^"Vita Nella Guardia" (in Italian). guardiasvizzera.va. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
^"Vatikan Fussballer besuchen Carlo Ancelotti" (in German). FC Bayern Munich. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
