However after the bankruptcy of old Viola, both Roma and Lazio had increased it shares ratio from 25 % to 37. 5 %.

The party had roughly 10-15 % support across Italy, having its stongholds in Central and Southern Italy ( Lazio 18. 6 %, Umbria 15. 2 %, Marche 14. 3 %, Abruzzo 14. 3 %, Puglia 13. 2 %, Sardinia 12. 9 %, Tuscany 12. 6 % and Campania 12. 6 % in the last general election ), scoring badly in Lombardy ( 10. 2 %) and Sicily ( 10. 9 %), while competing in the North-East ( Friuli-Venezia Giulia 15. 5 % and Veneto 11. 3 %).

Eriksson finally found major success in Italy with Lazio when he won the Coppa Italia and the Italian Supercup in 1998 and 2000, the European Cup Winners ' Cup ( 1999 – the very last tournament ), and the Serie A title ( the Scudetto ) in 2000 — only the second time that the Roman club had won the Italian championship in their history.

Eriksson had initially agreed to take over after the expiration of his contract in summer 2001, but decided to resign his post at Lazio early, and he officially began his England duties in January of that year.

The TAR ( Regional Administrative Tribunal ) of Lazio tried to block Alitalia's acquisition of Volare Group but abandoned the attempt, claiming that Alitalia had repaid its € 400 million loan and so there would be nothing stopping it from buying Volare Group.

Though Fowler had been on a contract extension from 1999 ( unlike Steve McManaman – who exercised his Bosman entitlement the very same year ), Fowler was linked to Lazio, Arsenal and Leeds, and Liverpool's management as well as fans and the media constantly reported that what happened with McManaman ( regarded as a huge financial loss ) would never be repeated and thus the club never rejected those bids without consideration.

Under restriction of a maximum of two foreign players in the team, of which the club had Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek and Michel Platini, Juventus initially lent him to newly promoted Rome club Lazio for a single season, something that Laudrup had not been informed about before signing for Juventus.

In his first year at the club, Lazio narrowly avoided relegation, but as Juventus wanted to keep Boniek and Platini, Laudrup had to stay for another year.

Going into the final he had already agreed terms to join Italian club Lazio in an £ 8. 5 million deal and wanted to leave Spurs on a high to show the world how good he was.

Lazio had already been endorsed by Mike Long, the Conservative Party leader.

Lazio indicated he had no desire to actually be a judge and would resign immediately in the event he was actually elected to the post ( the Bronx has heavy Democratic Party voter enrollment, making such an event highly improbable ).

Lazio's personal website had begun to display on Google as " Rick for US Senate ," indicating that he may run against Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand, however in June 2011, Lazio confirmed that he would not so so.

However, he slowly began to regain the form he had shown at Metz, scoring a superb solo goal against Lazio in the 2000 – 01 Champions League, and the winner against Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup semi-finals.

United's failure was largely put down to the inability to find a suitable replacement for Jaap Stam, the Dutch central defender who had been sold to Lazio for £ 16. 25million just after the start of the season.

Having spent 5 seasons with Lazio, Nedvěd moved to Juventus in 2001 for a fee of € 41 million as a replacement for Zinedine Zidane, who had transferred to Spain's Real Madrid the same summer.

He had been so popular at Lazio that when his move to New York was announced, supporters " threatened to throw themselves beneath the wheels of the plane ".

Despite a belief by the Lazio owner Sergio Cragnotti that Capello had made a verbal agreement to coach his club, Capello instead returned to Milan for a brief and less successful spell.

Even though he had already signed an extension to his Charlton contract, in August 2004 he returned to his home team of Lazio taking a massive paycut in order to return to the economically stretched Roman team.

However the negative publicity that Di Canio generated for Lazio, including his intimate relationship with club's ultras and their increased influence thanks to his presence in the team, coupled with problems with some teammates and coaches, exasperated club president and majority shareholder, Claudio Lotito, with whom he already had a difficult relationship.

Ibrahimović's form in the season had been eye-catching, with clever movement on and off the ball, and his passing had been outstanding, such as his acrobatic pass against Lazio.

Early in the 2001 – 02 season, Stam was controversially sold to Lazio in Italy, after Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was reportedly furious with allegations Stam had made in his autobiography Head to Head about himself and the club.

At the 1946 general election, the first after World War II, despite competition by the Action Party, which had a similar constituency and regional base, the PRI won 4. 4 % of the vote, with peaks in its traditional strongholds: around 21 % in Romagna ( 32. 5 % in Forlì and 37. 3 % in Ravenna ), 16. 4 % in the Marche ( 26. 6 % in Ancona and 32. 9 % in Jesi ), 11. 0 % in Umbria and 15. 2 % in Lazio.

After just one season there he had impressed sufficiently to move to Italian side Lazio for a then record fee of 15 million DM.

He also held the records for the oldest Serie A player and most Serie A appearances ( 570 matches ) for more than 20 years, until the season 2005 – 06 when the record was broken by S. S. Lazio goalkeeper Marco Ballotta and A. C. Milan defender Paolo Maldini respectively.

Zoff returned to Lazio, but resigned following a poor start to the 2001 – 02 season.

The 2004 season saw him as a co-leader in the Italian team for the Classics and one-day races, with notable finishes in various races from the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Paris – Roubaix and Liège – Bastogne – Liège, and victories in Züri-Metzgete and the Giro del Lazio.

Lazio started the 1984 – 85 season badly, and they finished dead last and were relegated to Serie B, with Laudrup scoring just a single goal that season.

Salas played in Italy for five years, three with S. S. Lazio ( 1998 – 2001 ), a key catalyst in helping turn around a Lazio team that hadn't won a Scudetto since the 1973 – 1974 season.

The minestra maritata recipe is also prepared by the families of Lazio and Campania during the Christmas season ( a tradition started from the Spanish domination of Italy to the present days ).

After the 1998 World Cup, he moved to Lazio, where he was outstanding in his first season, scoring 12 goals in Serie A and one in Europe, winning the Cup Winners ' Cup in the final of which came his sole European goal that season.

Vieri was made the focal point of the attack and scored 22 goals in 25 games in the 2001 – 02 season as Inter narrowly missed out on the Scudetto after their last-day defeat to Lazio.

He retired at the end of the season, captaining the final match against former team Lazio and set up Vincenzo Iaquinta's goal in a 2 – 0 victory.

Bradley was replaced for the 1976 season by another Englishman, Ken Furphy, who paired Pelé up front with Italian international forward Giorgio Chinaglia, a new arrival from S. S. Lazio.

His first season saw Roma finish 6th, made particularly disappointing as cross-city rivals Lazio won the title, and they were knocked out of the UEFA Cup by Leeds United.

One of the highlights of the season was a 5-1 win over rivals Lazio, which saw Vincenzo Montella score 4 goals.

In the 2002 – 03 season, Baía was in a great shape again, helping his club win the league title, the cup and the UEFA Cup, appearing in 11 of 13 matches in the latter competition, including the semifinals against S. S. Lazio where he saved a penalty kick, and the final against Celtic.

On the final day of the 1999 – 2000 season, Juventus lost to Perugia Calcio, allowing Lazio to win the title.

Nuova Sebastiani Basket moved from Rieti, a city in the Lazio region near Rome, to the southern city of Naples effective with the 2009 – 10 season.

He also scored Milan's first goal of their 2011 – 12 Serie A season in a 2 – 2 draw against Lazio.

In his last season at the club, he won the Coppa d ' Italia with Lazio.

He was sent off in the second Derby della Capitale of the 2008-09 season after a heated on-pitch clash with Lazio player Stephan Lichtsteiner following his hard challenge on the Swiss defender.