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WELCOME It gives me pleasure on behalf of Floriana F.C. to welcome to Malta the officials, players and supporters of Red Star Belgrade. The first leg in Belgrade was a great challenge, we lost with a margin of three nil, but who knows in football nothing is impossible? It was a respectable result against a great club.

I would like to personally thank all the Floriana FC Supporters who travelled to Belgrade to support the Greens. My final word is that to encourage every Floriana supporter to gather around with the committee and players and give their full support throughout this match and also next season, also a small message to the players; I hope they rise for the occasion and give the best of themselves against a club like Red Star.

RICCARDO GAUCCI

FLORIANA FC PRESIDENT

It gives me great pleasure as coach of Floriana FC to Welcome a club like Red Star Belgrade in Malta for our Europa League commitments. It was a great match away from home, although we lost we have produced some great football , I encourage our supporters to stick behind us during this home game and for the rest of the season as they have been always in order to achieve something better together hopefully. I also augur a pleasurable football match in virtue of sportmanship.

Come on Greens !!

GIOVANNI TEDESCO FLORIANA FC COACH

EUROPA LEAGUE • QUALIFYING ROUND 1 F LORIANA FC

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FLORIANA F.C.

R. Boakye 45' (P.) , 89' S. Srnic 78'

4-5-1 FORMATION

Stadion Rajko Mitic R. BOAKYE (Pen) 45’ +5

4-3-3 FORMATION MILIJAŠ (in) MILIĆ (out) 69’

S. SRNIĆ 78’

ADŽIĆ (in) RICARDINHO (out) 81’

R. BOAKYE 89’

CRVENA ZVEZDA FLORIANA F.C. NYASON (in) CHIESA (out) 46’

E.PEPE 17’ S.PISANI 45’ +4 E.RUIZ 45’ +3

22 F. Manojlovic 30 F. Stojkovic 5 A. Frimpong 90 V. Savic 33 D. Andelkovic 20 M. Donald 4 D. Le Tallec 55 S. Srnic 89 Ricardinho (81min: L. Adzic)

16 N. Milic

(68min: N. Milijaš)

14 R. Boakye

(90min: M. Pavkov) COACH: V. Milojevic

STARTING LINE UP

CABRAL (in) VARELA (out) 66’ D.BALDACCHINO 49’

J. Haber 16 D. Baldacchino 3 E. Pepe 5 E. Ruiz 6 Arthur 26 S. Nayar 10 S. Pisani 7 N. Chiesa 80 (45min: N. Nyason)

M. Fontanella 89 (61min: C. Borg)

M. Villa 11 I. Varela 9

(66min: J. Cabral) COACH: G. Tedesco

PAVKOV (in) BOAKYE(out) 90’ +1

FA TROPHY

WINNERS

FLORIANA F.C.

2016/17

TIMES

STEVE PISANI ‘NENE’ CLYDE BORG ‘PAJPAJ’

Finally the time has arrived to play our first competitive match of the season in front of you, although starting this match with a difficult task ahead of us .. playing with our 12 th player behind us can really give us that extra push for a different outcome than that of the first leg .... hope to see you all for our first of many matches this season , which we really need you behind to reach the clubs objectives for this season and keep the green and white shirt of our glorious club flying high ....

Kick starting a new season brings further responsibilities and obligations.

Following last season' s cup triumph, everyone at the club is more committed to having a successful run in the coming year.

This europa league match adds more prestige to us all and we are ready to put in our best display, one which the club deserves.

As for you Floriana FC fans, I urge you to stay close to the team. Your continuous loyalty has been vital for the team' s latest achievements and it will continue to be in the coming years.

Thanking you always faithfulness and adherence

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IGNACIO LUCAS

VARELA Un saluto enorme a tutti í tifosi del floriana! Grazie per il supporto durante tutto l'anno, spprartutto a Chi ci ha seguito fino in Serbia.

Speriamo potevi dare altre gioie!

In primo luogo grazie per l'amore e il sostegno, insieme si vince il trofeo e adesso insieme cercheremo di superare questa importante partita Floriana, il Giovedi è necessario come 12 ° uomo, sempre grazie

NAYAR

SEBASTIAN

HISTORY OF FLORIANA F.C.

The game of football in Malta originated from the influence of the British in Malta way back in the end of the 18th Century. At the moment the islands were occupied by the British forces (Army, Navy and Air Force) in the centre of the Mediterranean. The British had their Barracks spread around Malta, mainly in the harbour area (the old three Cities of Cospicua, Senglea and Vittoriosa, Mtarfa, Sliema, St.Andrew’s, Floriana and Valletta).

Each Barracks had a parade ground which was used by the British forces for parades, training for soldiers, and for sport activities like Cricket, Hockey, Rugby and Football.

The Floriana residents used to observe what the British forces where up to and when the solders where on leave, they used to meet up and share ideologies and customs. Football was the most favorite sport for the Floriana residents, although there were some who enjoyed Cricket and Hockey as well. At the end of the 18th century, a group of Floriana youths formed a football team who represented the Floriana District and started challenging other teams, especially those of Cospicua, to football matches. In fact, one of the most documented matches of the earlier days was between St George’s team of Cospicua and Floriana team in 1894, with the former winning 1-0.

Proof of this match can be found at St George’s FC premises where a team photograph dated to this year is present with one of the players holding a script acknowledging that they were the first team to beat Floriana (We are the first winners to Floriana).Floriana FC adopted this year 1894 as its foundation.

Between 1894 and 1905, Floriana used green and red shirts with square patterns, along with black shorts and green and red socks. Since 1905, the official colors of Floriana have been emerald green and white. The home shirt is vertically striped green and white, with white shorts and green and white horizontally striped socks. These colors were adopted from the Royal Irish Fusiliers, a British Army regiment stationed at the British Army barracks in Floriana. After three friendly games between Floriana and the stationed British army regiment in1905 both teams swapped shirts and Floriana FC kept this shirt as their official shirt. During their stay in Malta, the Royal Irish Fusiliers managed to obtain sympathy from the Floriana residents, leading to the Floriana football team to inherit the Ta l-Irish nickname. A full white kit with green collars, a full emerald green kit and a full canary kit where also used along the years as second choice away kits.

INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES On an international level, Floriana Football Club represented Malta on 25 different occasions in various European Competitions. This includes the UEFA Champions Cup, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, UEFA Cup Winners Cup, UEFA Cup and the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Floriana FC was also the first local football club to represent Malta on an international level. This was in 1962 against Upjest Dozsa FC of Hungary in the UEFA Cup Winners trophy. Since then Floriana FC had various memorable Europeans opponents, namely Ipswich Town FC of England, Inter of Italy, Ferencvarosi TC of Hungary, Sparta Rotterdam of Holland, Panathinaikos FC of Greece, Dundee United FC of Scotland, FC Porto of Portugal, Borussia Dortmund of Germany and others. On two separate occasions Floriana FC obtained qualification for the next round, namely against FK Ekranas of Lithuania in the UEFA Champions Cup 1993-94 and against Aberystwyth Town FC of Wales in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1999-2000.

A BRIEF INFORMATION ABOUT CRVENA ZVEZDA

FC Crvena Zvevda founded approximately seventy two years ago exactly on the fourth of March 1945 play their home games in the Rajko Mitic Stadium, Belgrade a stadium with a capacity of 55,538 people known as the Marakana. Red Star won the Serbian First League 27 times, and 24 the National Cups both are national records. They won the UEFA Champions League once together with the Intercontinental Cup, Europa League and Super Cup .. all once.

CREDITS PHOTOGRAPHER: JOE BORG GRAPHICAL DESIGN: JERMAIN BRINCAT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO FLORIANA FOOTBALL CLUB