Calabria: Difference between revisions

==Sport==

 

The most popular sport in Calabria is [[Association football|football]]. In the [[2023–24 Serie B|2023-2024 Serie B]] season, Calabria hosts 2 out of 20 teams: [[Cosenza Calcio]] and Catanzaro ; Other big teams of the region are Crotone, Vibonese playing in the [[2023–24 Serie C|2023-2024 Serie C]]

 

With the club promoted to the Serie A2 in 1983, the Scatolone did not answer the league's requirements, a new arena – the Botteghelle – was built over fifty-seven days.

In 1991 the PalaCalafiore (full name: Palasport Francesco Calafiore in dedication to a local sports journalist) was built; it is the biggest arena in Calabria and the seventh-largest in Italy, with more than 8,500 seats. Viola still plays in this arena (also known as the PalaPentimele, from the Pentimele neighbourhood it is situated in) as of the 2015–16 season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.violareggiocalabria.it/palacalafiore/palacalafiore |title=Palacalafiore |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=ViolaReggioCalabria.it |access-date=25 August 2015 |language=it}}</ref>.Viola won also 3 Campionato di Legadue 1984-1985 1988-89 1991-92.[[Joe Bryant]] played for 1 season ('86–'87) in Viola with him lived in Reggio his son [[Kobe Bryant]],[[Manu Ginóbili]] played for 2 seasons ('98–'00) in Viola.

 

==Universities==