Club Sportivo Firenze
| Full name | Club Sportivo Firenze |
| Nickname (s) | Biancogigliati |
| Founded | 1903 |
| Club colors | White |
| Stadion | Velodromo delle Cascine |
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| Top league | Series A |
| successes | 2 × FGNI champions |
The Club Sportivo Firenze was an Italian sports club from Florence .
Club Sportivo Firenze was created in 1903 from the merger between Club Sportivo Ardire and Club Velocipdeistico Fiorentino . As a club jersey one chose a jersey with the Giglio Fiorentino (de: Florentine Lily) and from the beginning the CS Firenze became a club with a department in various sports. For example, they got involved in athletics, cycling, motorcycling, fencing and later also in football, netball, boxing and tamburello . The CS Firenze club track was subsequently used as a training area by the best sprinters in Europe. In 1911 a new running track was built inside the Velodrome, which was subsequently used to hold competitions in walking. At the opening, the Florentines were able to admire the marathon runner Dorando Pietri and the sprinter Franco Giongo.
In the pre-war years, the club mainly focused on cycling and football. After the First World War , athletics became more and more the most important section of the club. In addition to the various running disciplines, other disciplines were added to the program in 1920. This reorientation coincided with the decline of the Società Sportiva Itala, which had dominated the athletics scene in Florence for a long time. After a few years, the CS Firenze walkers dominated the regional competitions. The then President Pietro Pucci brought together the best athletes in the region in the CS Firenze team, including the Olympians Disma Ferrario, Nello Bartolini, Giuseppe Lippi, Enrico Torre, Antonio Capecchio and the President's son, Puccio Pucci. At the end of 1927, the fascist regime decreed that the athletics department of Club Sportivo Firenze should merge with that of Unione Sportiva Fiorentina to form the Società Giglio Rosso . This was just one of the many restructurings in the club landscape of Florence that of Machese Luigi Ridolfi , the general secretary of the fascists in Florence, who was also president of the Club Sportivo. The newly founded Società Giglio Rosso continued to use the facilities of the Club Sportivo in the Velodromo delle Cascine until 1930, when the new club headquarters of Giglio Rosso on Viale Michelangelo had been completed. After the Club Sportivo Firenze had lost its athletics section, the focus was now on cycling again, where successes were celebrated on various occasions.
After the Second World War , he continued his involvement in cycling, concentrating mainly on track cycling . For this purpose, the Velodrom was completely renovated in 1947. The results spoke for themselves, with Enzo Sacchi being the most outstanding, several times Italian champion, twice world champion of amateurs and in 1952 even gold medalist at the Olympic Games. Today the Club Sportivo Firenze is still a polisportive club, which besides cycling has a tennis department and again a soccer department.
Football department
The football department of CS Firenze was founded in 1912. On August 26, 1926, it merged with the Palestra Ginnastica Fiorentina Libertas to form AC Fiorentina .
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