AS San Giovanni
association football club
A.S. San Giovanni is a Sanmarinese football club, based in San Giovanni sotto le Penne, a civil parish of Borgo Maggiore. The club was founded in 1948. San Giovanni currently plays in Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio. The team's colors are white, red and black.
It is the only Sammarinese side not to win any top tier silverware, as they were Serie A2 champions in the 1994–95 season, when there was a promotion/relegation pyramid of two tiers.
History
In the early years of the Second World War, the parish priest of St. John Sotto Le Pen, a hamlet of Borgo Maggiore, collects the children of the country, regarded as the 10th Castello della Repubblica.
Behind the church there is a bumpy pitch, the parish priest puts it at the disposal of the boys provided that they commit themselves to make it fit for use. In the evening, instead of being at the bar all to the field to work in the light of a bulb improvised. Meanwhile, Don Fedele is at pains to find T-shirts, the first will be red and black, and have since remained the same, the colors.
“AS San Giovanni” enters the record as association football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Giovanni, association and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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