Genoa Club Amsterdam

Of course Genoa Club Amsterdam organizes many activities for their members. Every season we choose our Genoa Club Amsterdam Genoano of the year and we try every season to hand over the trophy to the winner (see Genoano of Year), which succeeded 5 times in the last 6 years. We make a fanzine for our members 3 times a season and organize meetings in Skysportscafé on Leidseplein in Amsterdam to watch together (mostly with some Napoli-fans) matches of Genoa. But our most important activity is to organize trips to Genoa-matches. Untill now we made 14 trips with 3 or more members. Of course also this year in Serie A you can travel with us to several matches (see Visit match Genoa). Our 9 most special trips so far:

1. 22 October 1999: Genoa-Sampdoria 1-1 (goal of Ruotolo) Our first trip to the first Genovese league-derby in 5 years with a happy end because of the late goal of Ruotolo. We visited the match with 6 persons: Bart, John, Maarten, Rocco, Monica and Hans while Sylvia and 9 months old Iris stayed in the hotel.

2. 14 January 2000: Genoa-Napoli 0-1 During this 4 day trip we visited 3 matches: Juventus-Lazio (Coppa Italia), Genoa-Napoli (Serie B) and Bologna-Bari (Serie A). Henk, Bart, John and Hans stayed 2 nights in Hotel Fiume in Genova and 1 night in the house of Andrea Agostini in San Lazzaro di Savena.

3. 2 April 2001: Genoa-Sampdoria 2-0 (goals Mutarelli, Stroppa) Maybe our best trip ever. We stayed on this 5-day trip in Hotel Cristal in Pietra Ligure and we had a fantastic barbeque with Rocco, Monica, Anna and Eugenio on the beach. Bart, John, Patrick, Marcel, Ernst-Jan, Tim (Belgian), Sylvia and Hans also visited Milan - Lazio in the San Siro stadium.                                                                   

4. 5 November 2001: Genoa-Sampdoria 1-0 (Branco-gol of Francioso) Because of a terrible accident in Gotthard-tunnel 10 Dutch Genoani had to drive over 200 kilometres extra in Switserland to arrive in Genova for this fantastic derby with the great freekick goal of Francioso. We visited the match with the most members ever. The 13 heroes of this unforgettable trip: Bart, Ernst-Jan, Marcel, Stijn, Ted, Harke, Helena, Edwin, Marike, Hans, Rocco, Monica, Alessandro.

5. 13 October 2002: Venezia-Genoa 0-1 (goal of D’Isanto) Our first away-match of Genoa. John, Bart, Max, Willem and Hans stayed 3 nights in hotel Nettuno in Lido di Jesolo and went by boat to the match.                               

6. 15 February 2004: Genoa-Torino 2-1 (goals: Foglio, Rossi) With 9 Dutch Genoani (John, Bart, Ernst-Jan, Marcel, Willem, Max, Tim T., Martijn and Hans) we flew with Easy-Jet to Nice and drove with 2 cars to Genova. Because of Valentines-day we showed a special banner “Genoa you are our valentine” in Distinti.     

7. 11 June 2005: Genoa-Venezia 3-2 (goals: Milito (2x), Rossi) One week after the fantastic trip to Piacenza, Bart and Hans returned together with Sylvia, John and Tim T.. For 3 days we celebrated the promotion to Serie A.    

8. 10th June 2007: Genoa-Napoli 0-0 Two years after the disaster against Piacenza and Venezia finally the promotion to Serie A after 11 years in Serie B and 1 year in C-1. The promotion together with our friends of Napoli ended in one big party with the fans of both sides. This is what football makes fantastic !

9. 7th October 2007: Genoa-Cagliari 2-0 (goals: Borriello, Di Vaio) 111 months after the foundation of Genoa Club Amsterdam our first match in Serie A. Of course we started with a victory by goals of one of the best strikers of Genoa ever: Marco Borriello and one of my idols that has become a friend: Marco di Vaio.    

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