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Eccellenza
Founded
1991[citation needed]
Nation
Italy
Divisions
28 in the different Regions of Italy
Promotion To
Serie D
Relegation To
Promozione
Number of Teams
474
Cups
Coppa Italia Dilettanti
Current Champions (2010-11)
see here

Eccellenza (Italian for "excellence") is the sixth level of Italian football. It is a regional league, composed of 28 divisions divided geographically. All 20 regions are represented by at least one division except for Piedmont and Aosta Valley which share 2 divisions. Veneto, Tuscany, Sicily, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna and Campania also have 2 divisions each, while region of Lombardy has 3 divisions.

Promotion and relegation[link]

After the regular season is completed, the first-placed team for each division is automatically promoted to Serie D.

Each division also admits one other team to participate in national playoffs that take place in late May and early June. Some divisions select the second-placed team directly, while other divisions schedule a series of divisional playoff games among the top teams in that division in order to determine the national playoff participant. Once the 28 national playoff participants are finalized, they are paired in a double-leg series, and the 14 winners participate in a second round double-leg series. The 7 winners of the second round are promoted to Serie D as well. One more place to Serie D is allowed to the winner of the "Coppa Italia Dilettanti" (Amateur Italian Cup), a year-long competition between all the national teams of both Eccellenza and Promozione (the lower division). In all, 36 teams are promoted to replace the 36 teams relegated down from Serie D.

• 28 division winners
• 7 national playoff winners
• 1 Coppa Italiana Dilettanti winner

The relegation rules are decided regionally, but there are usually three teams relegated from each division.

Eccellenza by region[link]

• Eccellenza Abruzzo - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: TBD)
• Eccellenza Apulia - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: Monopoli)
• Eccellenza Basilicata - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: TBD)
• Eccellenza Calabria - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: Comprensorio Montalto)
• Eccellenza Campania - 2 Divisions [Champions 2011-12: Savoia (Girone A) & Agropoli (Girone B)]
• Eccellenza Emilia–Romagna - 2 Divisions [Champions 2011-12: TBD (Girone A) & TBD (Girone B)]
• Eccellenza Friuli – Venezia Giulia - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12:TBD)
• Eccellenza Lazio - 2 Divisions [Champions 2011-12: TBD (Girone A) & TBD (Girone B)]
• Eccellenza Liguria - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: Sestri Levante)
• Eccellenza Lombardy - 3 Divisions [Champions 2011-12: Pro Sesto (Girone A) & TBD (Girone B) & Sant'Angelo (Girone C)]
• Eccellenza Marche - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: TBD)
• Eccellenza Molise - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: TBD)
• Eccellenza Piedmont and Aosta Valley - 2 Divisions
• Eccellenza Sardinia - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: Torres)
• Eccellenza Sicily - 2 Divisions [Champions 2011-12: Ribera (Girone A) & TBD (Girone B)]
• Eccellenza Tuscany - 2 Divisions [Champions 2011-12: Lucca (Girone A)& TBD (Girone B)]
• Eccellenza Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: Fersina)
• Eccellenza Umbria - 1 Division (Champion 2011-12: TBD)
• Eccellenza Veneto - 2 Divisions [Champions 2011-12: TBD (Girone A) & TBD (Girone B)]

See also[link]

• Italian football league system

References[link]

External links[link]

• (Italian) Official website of LND (Italian National Amateur League)

Ugo Tognazzi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈuɡo toɲˈɲattsi]; 23 March 1922 - 27 October 1990) was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.

Early life[link]

Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.

After his return in the native city in 1936, he worked in a salami production plant. In World War II, he was called to the Army, returning home after the Armistice of September 1943. His passion for spectacles and acting dates from his early years, and also during the conflict he had organized spectacles for his fellow soldiers. In 1945 he moved to Milan, where he was enrolled in the theatrical company led by Wanda Osiris. A few years later he formed his own successful musical revue company.

Career[link]

In 1950 Tognazzi made his debut for cinema, in I cadetti di Guascogna directed by Mario Mattoli. In the following year he met Raimondo Vianello, with whom he formed a successful comical duo for the new-born RAI TV (1954–1960). Their shows, sometimes containing satirical aspects, were also among the first ones to be censored in Italian television.

After the successful role in The Fascist (Il Federale) (1961), directed by Luciano Salce, Tognazzi became one of the most renowned characters of the so-called Commedia all'Italiana (Italian comedy style). He worked with all the main directors of Italian cinema, including Mario Monicelli (Amici miei), Marco Ferreri (La grande abbuffata), Carlo Lizzani (La vita agra), Dino Risi, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty), Ettore Scola, Alberto Lattuada, Nanni Loy, Pupi Avati and others. Tognazzi also directed some of his films, including the 1967 film Il fischio al naso. The film was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

He was a famous actor in Italy, and starred in some important international films, which brought him fame.

Roger Vadim cast Ugo Tognazzi as Mark Hand, the Catchman, in 1968's Barbarella. He rescues Barbarella (Jane Fonda) from the biting dolls she encounters, and after her rescue, he requests payment by asking her to make love with him (the "old-fashioned" way, not the psycho-cardiopathic way of their future).

In 1981 he won the Best Male Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. While he worked primarily in Italian cinema, Tognazzi is perhaps best remembered for his role as Renato Baldi, the gay owner of a St. Tropez nightclub, in the 1978 French comedy La Cage aux Folles which became the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S.

Personal life[link]

Ugo Tognazzi died of a brain hemorrhage in Rome in 1990, although rumors persist to this day that his chronic depression led to suicide. He is buried in the cemetery of Velletri.

His sons Ricky Tognazzi (b. 1955) and Gianmarco Tognazzi (b. 1967) are cinema actors. He was also the father of the Norwegian film director and film producer Thomas Robsahm (b. 1964). His daughter Maria Sole Tognazzi (b. 1971) is, like Ricky, a film director.

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Director[link]

• Il mantenuto (1961)
• Il fischio al naso (1967)
• Sissignore (1968)
• Cattivi pensieri (1976)
• I viaggiatori della sera (1979)

References[link]

External links[link]

• IMDb.com entry on Ugo Tognazzi

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Virna Lisi
Born	Virna Lisa Pieralisi (1936-11-08) 8 November 1936 (age 75) Ancona, Italy
Occupation	actress
Years active	1953 - present
Spouse	Franco Pesci (April 25, 1960-present) 1 son Corrado born on July 1962. She has three grandsons: Franco (b. 1995), Federico and Riccardo (b. 2003).

Virna Lisi (born 8 November 1936 in Ancona) is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi.

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Virna Lisi began her film career in her teens. She was discovered in Paris by two Neapolitan producers, Antonio Ferrigno and Ettore Pesce. Her debut was in La corda d'acciaio (The line of steel, 1953). Initially, she did musical films, like in E Napoli canta (Napoli sings, 1953) and the successful Questa è la vita (1954, with the popular Totò). Nonetheless, her beauty was more valued than her talent, as in Le diciottenni and Lo scapolo films of 1955. Yet she filled demanding roles, particularly in La Donna del Giorno (1956), Eva (1962), and the Italian-made spectacle Romolo e Remo (1961).

In the late 1950s, Lisi did theater at Piccolo Teatro di Milano in I giacobini by Federico Zardi under the direction of Giorgio Strehler. During the 1960s, Lisi did comedies and participated in television dramas that were widely viewed in Italy. Lisi also promoted a toothpaste brand on television with a slogan that would become a catchphrase among Italians: "con quella bocca può dire ciò che vuole" (with such a mouth, she can say whatever she wants).^[1]

Hollywood career[link]

Hollywood producers sought a new Marilyn Monroe, and so Lisi debuted in Hollywood comedy as a blue-eyed blonde temptress opposite Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife (1965) and appeared with Tony Curtis in Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966). Lisi then starred with Frank Sinatra, in Assault on a Queen (1966), in La Ragazza e il Generale, co-starring with Rod Steiger, and in two films with Anthony Quinn, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, and the war drama The 25th Hour. She also gained attention for a photo of her shaving her face that appeared on the March 1965 cover of Esquire magazine.

Career renaissance in Europe[link]

Indeed, to overcome her typecast just of a seductive woman, Virna Lisi sought new types of roles, of evil women or of a lover in relationships of disparate age for example. In those years, Virna Lisi participated in Italian productions, in Casanova 70 and Le bambole (1965), Arabella (1967), and Le dolci signore (1968). Also Lisi starred some arthouse films, of which The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1965) is an example.

In the early 1970s, Virna Lisi decided temporarily to attend to her family, husband Franco Pesci and her son Corrado, born in July 1962. Nonetheless, a career renaissance occurred soon for Virna with a large list of productions, including Al di là del bene e del male (1977), Ernesto (1979), and La cicala (1980). For the film La Reine Margot (1994), Lisi portrayed a malevolent Catherine de' Medici and so she won both the César and Cannes Film Festival awards,^[2] along with a Silver Ribbon for Best supporting Actress.

Particularly since the late 1990s, Virna Lisi did many successful dramatic productions of television. In 2002, Lisi starred in her last film, Il più bel giorno della mia vita.

Legacy[link]

A Brazilian rock band, Virna Lisi, is named after her. The 1980s Argentinian band Sumo (led by Luca Prodan), made a song for her. The singer's brother is the actor Andrea Prodan, who appeared with her in the movie I ragazzi di via Panisperna (1988).

Production[link]

Selected filmography[link]

Television[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Virna Lisi at the Internet Movie Database
• Virna Lisi at AllRovi
• Virna Lisi, at Celebirony.
• Virna Lisi, at ElCriticon (The critic, in Spanish)