ACF Fiorentina

As of February 3, 2006. The influence of the magazine appears to have boosted the local popularity of such games as the X-COM and Jagged Alliance series, and Finnish sales of little-known classics like King of Dragon Pass can be disproportionate. UEFA Cup runners up. Original and less mass-marketed games such as adventures, turn-based strategies and independently published ones are much respected. Champions' League runners up. This can of course be seen as just a way to back up their image as "independent" and "above the rest of gaming magazines". Cup Winners' Cup runners up. However, any and all deals that would restrict the staff's freedom to write what they wish are steadfastly refused, often as bribery.

Cup Winners' Cup winners. Multiple previews and reviews of pre-final versions of games are numerous today. Coppa Italia winners. Pelit have always frowned upon hype but have themselves succumbed to it in last few years. Serie A winners. Recently the quality has decreased in some respect, as the magazine has started to extensively use screenshots from official press kits as opposed to their own screenshots of actual gameplay situations. . Game reviews are by far the most important part.

The combination of Jorgensen, Fiore and Toni proved to be dominant as Toni scored over 21 goals so far. It prides itself on providing quality content for its readers and intends to keep things that way. So far in 2005-06, their form has greatly improved, and they are currently in contention for a Champions League place. The magazine's characteristic feature is its somewhat idealistic outlook, which can seem self-righteous to some. In their first season back in Italian football's top flight, the club struggled to avoid relegation, securing survival only on the last day of the season, and avoiding a relegation playoff only on head-to-head record against Bologna and Parma. Jyrki Kasvi has spent several years as a game reviewer, as well as a columnist under the pseudonym of Wexteen the Wizard. Fiorentina completed their remarkable comeback by winning the match 2-1 on aggregate, with both goals scored by Enrico Fantini, to gain promotion back to Serie A. Its staff includes the accidental gaming icon Niko Nirvi and the cartoonist Wallu.

This achievement placed the Viola in a two-legged playoff against Perugia (the 15th-place finisher in Serie A) for a position in Serie A. Pelit's editor-in-chief is Tuija Lindén. The club's unusual double promotion was not without controversy, with some suggesting that Fiorentina did not deserve it; however, the club remained in Serie B and managed to finish the 2003-2004 season in sixth place. The most notable changes were the 1998 founding of its sister magazine, the PlayStation-based Peliasema, and the later merging of the two as a practical necessity with the growth of the console market and the weakening of the PC games market. Matches were still being played at the Artemio Franchi stadium. While the magazine started with four computer platforms, coverage for the Amiga, Commodore 64 and Atari ST vanished along with the computers. In the 2003 off-season, the club also bought back the right to use the Fiorentina name and the famous shirt design, and re-incorporated itself as ACF Fiorentina. A comic, KyöPelit, was started in 1993 and has since successfully avoided making sense.

This was only possible because the Italian Football Federation chose to resolve the Catania situation by increasing the number of teams in Serie B from 20 to 24. Game solutions were dropped as the adventure and old-fashioned role-playing games, the primary subjects, dwindled. However, due to the bizarre Caso Catania (Catania Case) the club skipped Serie C1 and was admitted into Serie B. Its layout and contents have occasionally been revised over the years. Helped by Di Livio, the club won it's regional section in Serie C2 with considerable ease at the end of the 2002-2003 season, which would normally have led to a promotion to Serie C1. In 1992, the staff of the semi-annual computer game book found themselves fed up with the limitations of their format, and thus the proper Pelit magazine was started. The only player to remain at the club as they began their new life was Angelo Di Livio, whose commitment to the cause of resurrecting the club further endeared him to the fans. Another annual issue was published in 1988, and in 1989 it became semi-annual (two times per year).

The club was promptly re-established in August 2002 as Florentia Viola with a new owner, Diego Della Valle, and was admitted into Serie C2, one of the lower tiers in Italian football. Pelit is an old-timer, originally dating back to 1987, as an annual extra games-only issue of MikroBitti and C=Lehti. This form of bankruptcy (sports companies cannot exactly fail in this way in Italy, but they can suffer a similar procedure) meant that the club was refused a place in Serie B for the 2002-2003 season, and as a result, effectively ceased to exist. Recently some newcomers, mainly Pelaaja and Tilt have started to challenge its position as the sole choice for a serious Finnish gaming magazine. Then, Fiorentina were relegated at the end of the 2001-2002 season and went into judicially controlled administration in June 2002. Being by far the largest of its kind in Finland and covering both PCs and consoles, it has for a long time lacked serious competition and is thought by many to be the magazine of its kind, especially on the side of computer games. The club owner, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, was able to raise some more money, but even this soon proved to be insufficient resources to sustain the club. Pelit (meaning "games") is a Finnish video games magazine published 11 times a year by Sanoma Magazines.

2001 heralded major changes for Fiorentina, as the terrible state of the club's finances was revealed; they were unable to pay wages and had debts of around USD 50 million. Upon return to Serie A the club again proved able in the cup competitions, winning the Coppa Italia again in 1996 and 2000 and the Italian SuperCoppa. Success in the Coppa Italia was repeated in 1975, but from then until the late 1990s the club found itself in the doldrums, culminating in a season in Serie B (second division) in 1993-1994. In 1974 the Viola won the Anglo-Italian Cup.

In the 1960s the club won the Coppa Italia and the Mitropa Cup in 1966 and were league champions again in the 1968-1969 season. In the 1960-1961 season the club won the Coppa Italia again and was also successful in Europe, winning the first Cup Winners' Cup against Rangers. The club won its first trophy in 1939-40 with the Coppa Italia and its first scudetto (Italian championship) in 1955-1956, the club were runners-up in the four following seasons. The club was founded on August 26, 1926 by the merger of Libertas and Club Sportivo Firenze.

The club usually plays at the 47,282-capacity all-seater 'Comunale' Stadium "Artemio Franchi" (known until 1991 as Comunale di Firenze, which had itself replaced the "Giovanni Francesco Berta" in the 1930s). The club atraditional colors were originally red and white but were changed to purple and white in 1928; since then, the club has been generally known as "i Viola" (the purple ones). ACF Fiorentina, formerly Associazione Calcio Fiorentina, is an Italian football club based in Florence (Firenze), Tuscany. Luca Toni.

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