佛羅倫薩是意大利足球的發(fā)源地。 這里是這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動最初成型并獲得了“calcio”（即意大利語的“足球”）這個名稱的地方。

Florence is the birthplace of football in Italy. It is where the sport first took shape and gained the name ‘calcio’.

這一切都始于“Calcio Fiorentino”（佛羅倫薩足球），它在 15 世紀(jì)后期傳播開來，并在接下來的幾個世紀(jì)里得到發(fā)展。 直到 19 世紀(jì)末，英國足球才開始影響到佛羅倫薩的現(xiàn)代足球先驅(qū)。 1898年，佛羅倫薩足球俱樂部（Florence Football Club）誕生。佛羅倫薩無愧為古老而高貴的意大利足球起源之地。

It all began with ‘Calcio Fiorentino’ (Florentine football), which spread in the late 1400s and developed over the following centuries. It was only at the end of the 19th century that English football started to influence the Florentine pioneers of the modern game. In 1898, Florence Football Club was born, an event that places the ancient and noble origins of calcio in Florence.??

1909 年，佛羅倫薩足球俱樂部不再出現(xiàn)在地方記錄中，而在 1912 年底和 1913 年初，兩個歷史最悠久、最杰出的體育協(xié)會組建了自己的足球隊(duì)：佛羅倫薩體育俱樂部（Club Sportivo Firenze），一個成立 1870 年的自行車組織；佛羅倫薩自由隊(duì)（Palestra Ginnastica Fiorentina Libertas），一個成立于 1877 年的體操協(xié)會。

In 1909, Florence Football Club was no longer mentioned in local records and, towards the end of 1912 and the beginning of 1913, two of the oldest and most illustrious people’s sporting associations formed their own football teams: Club Sportivo Firenze, a cycling organisation founded in 1870, and Palestra Ginnastica Fiorentina Libertas, a gymnastics society founded in 1877.?

在第一次世界大戰(zhàn)結(jié)束后，上述的兩支球隊(duì)之間展開了激烈的競爭，直到 1926 年 8 月 29 日，佛羅倫薩體育俱樂部主席路易吉·里多爾菲·瓦伊·達(dá)·韋拉扎諾侯爵 (Luigi Ridolfi Vay da Verrazzano) 憑借自己的政治影響力，說服了兩家具樂部將各自的足球隊(duì)合并為佛羅倫薩足球協(xié)會（Associazione Fiorentina del Calcio）。 佛羅倫薩（FIorentina）正式成立了。

After the Great War, which put a halt to any football whatsoever, a fierce rivalry built up between the two teams until 29 August 1926 when the Marquis Luigi Ridolfi Vay da Verrazzano, the President of Club Sportivo Firenze with a lot of political influence, persuaded the two clubs to merge their respective football teams into the Associazione Fiorentina del Calcio (Florentine Football Association). Fiorentina was born.