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Bolzano team fetes second-last finish after 20 years last

'A little miracle' says Excelsior club president

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 30 - A soccer team from Bolzano in northern Italy is celebrating coming second last at the bottom of Italian amateur football after 20 years propping up the table.
    "It's a little miracle," said the president of the Excelsior club, Mirco Marchiodi, after the team notched two draws and a win in "what has been an extraordinary championship for us".
    Excelsior has finished bottom of Terza Categoria, the lowest rung of amateur soccer and the ninth and last of Italian football, since 2001-2002.
    Its record includs 385 matches lost out of 397 played, with five wins and eight draws over that time, and 262 goals scored and 2,949 conceded. (ANSA).
   

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