ACF Fiorentina

As of February 3, 2006. It appears in Judaism as early as the verse in Genesis, referring to Eliezer's encounter with Rebekah: 'And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her' (Genesis 24:16) and is a recurring theme throughout the Bible, especially with regard to the laws governing betrothal, marriage and divorce. UEFA Cup runners up. One of the most fundamental aspects of Jewish tradition—which also may be going the way of other Victorian virtues—is the great significance attached to virginity. Champions' League runners up. However, that is not the punishment according to Islamic Law or Sharia', and is more often viewed as a primitive traditional and cultural norm found in rare societies. Cup Winners' Cup runners up. In Islamic communities it is sometimes, but very rarely, known for sexually active but unmarried young girls to be killed by relatives protecting the family's honor.

Cup Winners' Cup winners. However, in many conservative Muslim societies an individual who is not a virgin may be looked upon unfavourably for a possible marriage. Coppa Italia winners. Despite this, people who are not virgins may still be allowed to marry each other. Serie A winners. Quotes such as 'Do not even go near Fornication' (Al-Israa 17: 32), are testament to this. . Islam provides very strict conditions that sexual activity must occur between married individuals.

The combination of Jorgensen, Fiore and Toni proved to be dominant as Toni scored over 21 goals so far. There are terms such as a "born again virgin", where a person who has had pre-marital sex may regain a state which they consider to be pure. So far in 2005-06, their form has greatly improved, and they are currently in contention for a Champions League place. Some theologians hold that once virginity is lost in a pre-marital context then one is polluted or defiled from that state through the consequence arising from the corruption of retaining unlawful carnal knowledge through experience. 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. For example, some believe the New Testament of the Christian Bible forbids pre-marital sex of any form. 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. Some Christian observers say that virginity indicates a requisite state of holiness in terms of sexuality before marriage.

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. This has been termed technical virginity or hot virginity. 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. Some historians and anthropologists note that many societies that place a high value on virginity before marriage, such as the United States before the sexual revolution, actually have a large amount of premarital sexual activity that does not involve vaginal penetration, e.g., oral sex, anal sex and mutual masturbation. Matches were still being played at the Artemio Franchi stadium. Continuing virginity after a certain age is even regarded by some to be a negative thing, implying that the person is unattractive, prudish or sexually immature. 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. The increasingly-common belief of some western youth that virginity is no longer to be regarded as a virtue has become a matter of considerable debate, especially related to controversies involving sexuality among young people.

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. Some elements within western culture no longer regard premarital virginity as a virtue and may allude to it disparagingly. However, due to the bizarre Caso Catania (Catania Case) the club skipped Serie C1 and was admitted into Serie B. This may even hold true for women who are assumed to be non-virgins (for example, those involved in a second marriage), but the practice is not universal. 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. It is unclear the extent to which this symbolism is accurate given that some women may choose to wear white even if they are no longer virgins. 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. Traditionally in western marriage ceremonies, a veil is taken as a symbol of the bride's virginity; it is a popular misconception that the white dress indicated virginity.

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. Traditionally in some cultures (especially those dominated by Christianity, Islam and Judaism, as also Hinduism and the other Indic religions) there has been a widespread belief that the loss of virginity before marriage is a matter of deep shame. 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. Female virginity is closely interwoven with personal or even family honor in many cultures. Then, Fiorentina were relegated at the end of the 2001-2002 season and went into judicially controlled administration in June 2002. The constellation Virgo represents a wide selection of sacred virgins. 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. The Maiden or Virgin is one of the three persons of the Triple Goddess in many Neopagan traditions.

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. The Vestal Virgins were strictly celibate priestesses of Vesta. 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. Virginity has been often considered to be a virtue denoting purity and physical self-restraint and is an important characteristic of some religious figures such as the Virgin Mary (often called simply the Virgin), the Ten Virgins and the Greek goddesses Athena, Artemis, and Hestia. 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. The word "chastity" (or "celibacy," when referring to the lifestyle choice) is sometimes used for men in place of virginity, although these terms are usually applied to women. In 1974 the Viola won the Anglo-Italian Cup. There is no obvious physical indicator of virginity in human males, though there may be social indicators, including possible sexual anxiety and a lack of sexual experience or prowess.

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. There are even women who take this "spiritual" conception of virginity to its maximum, considering "born again" Christians to be virgins, regardless of their past sexual conduct. 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. Traditionally, women were not regarded as virgins after a sexual assault, but some people disavow this notion. 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. Conversely, in rare cases a woman's hymen is imperforate, and as menstrual discharge cannot then escape, surgical intervention to break it is necessary to protect her health. The club was founded on August 26, 1926 by the merger of Libertas and Club Sportivo Firenze. Also, the hymen can be broken before a woman engages in sexual intercourse, for example during strenuous exercise or during the insertion of a tampon.

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 absence of one, however, is not necessarily an indication of participation in sexual intercourse, since in some women the hymen is either absent from birth, or sufficiently vestigial not to be affected by sexual penetration. 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). The presence of an intact membrane is therefore often seen as physical evidence of virginity in the broader technical sense. ACF Fiorentina, formerly Associazione Calcio Fiorentina, is an Italian football club based in Florence (Firenze), Tuscany. Among human females, the hymen is a membrane, part of the vulva, which partially occludes the entrance to the vagina and which is often physically torn when the woman first engages in vaginal sexual intercourse. Luca Toni. .

Francesco Toldo. The term maiden is also sometimes used to mean a virgin, although that can also refer to an unmarried or merely young woman. Rui Costa. The status of "virginity" is sometimes respected and valued in certain societies, especially in relation to views of many religions on sexual conduct before marriage. Daniel Passarella. Also, someone can be referred to as an "anal virgin," being a virgin to anal sex (specifically receiving anal sex). Hidetoshi Nakata. This use is traditionally restricted to a person who has not yet engaged in vaginal intercourse, but it is sometimes used to describe someone who has not engaged in sexual activities in general.

Miguel Montuori. Traditionally, virgin is used to describe a person who has not engaged in sexual intercourse. Predrag Mijatovic. In its most general sense, virginity is characterized by a state of unimpacted purity, usually stemming from a lack of experience (for example, newcomers to game Bingo could be referred to as virgins). Julinho. Brian Laudrup.

Andrei Kanchelskis. Kurt Hamrin. Giovanni Galli. Stefan Effenberg.

Edmundo. Dunga. Angelo Di Livio. Giancarlo De Sisti.

Enrico Chiesa. Luciano Chiarugi. Gabriel Batistuta. Roberto Baggio.

Giancarlo Antognoni. Lorenzo Amoruso. Adriano Leite Ribeiro. 1989/1990.

1956/57. 1961/1962. 1960/1961. 2000/2001.

1995/1996. 1974/1975. 1995/1966. 1960/1961.

1939/1940. 1968/69. 1955/56.