Chelsea Football Club - The Story Of The Blues

Most of the Stamford Bridge football teams are emotionally attached to their stadium, but the story of the few teams and stadiums are intertwined asthat Chelsea FC and Stamford Bridge, their London home. Builtin 1877, Stamford Bridge was an athletics track until 1905, the brothers whentwo (HA and JT Mears) purchased intentionof attract an existing team to play there. When this planfailed, decided to take the bull by the horns and createTHead own team - Chelsea FC.And so began 100 years of football history, with many ups and downsalong the road. The Story Of The Blues Chelsea Football Club was officially formed March 14, 1905 inthe Rising Sun public house opposite the main entrance of the stadium thecurrent. A few weeks later the team joined the growing SecondDivision Soccer League, and played theirfirst game (against Stockport County) 29 1905.A long period without incident and was not followed by 1955that Chelsea won the title of the shown above. Initially called "retired" after the nearby Royal Hospital (home of armypensioners), an operator first thought that gave wrongimpression - and since then, Chelsea was known as "TheBlues. The swinging 60s, the fashionable heart Chelsea of London, but the success has not been repeated around inthe field at Stamford Bridge. The team became known for its thepitch fashionable clothes, accessories, and celebritylifestyles and the club enjoyed a certain celebrity in this period mediaduring . The trophy, however, remains largelyempty, even if Chelsea came with a Lossinia FA Cup final of 1967, the only major success of the decade was theirfirst win the League Cup in 1965. Things can only get improve the situation is no better in 1970 and '80, with theteam diving in and out of the second division and difficulties seriousfinancial leader for the sale of star players. Cuatrimestral club in the lowest financial, Mears family are forced to sell the new club owner Ken Bates, for a price of $ 2 (yes, two dollars!). Fans of Chelsea fans stayedloyal However, some of the players on this issue eraranked among the best in England . Notable among the players of this period is known goalkeeper Peter Bonetti, whoplayed for the team 729 times between 1959 and 1979 and strikerPeter Osgood scored 150 goals in 380 appearances between1964 and 1979.Although Jimmy Greaves was better known his Tottenham Hotspur careerat later, he began playing football at Chelsea, scored on their opening match (a feat he repeated with each team played in hesubsequently). In 1960, at age 20, he became player ever to score theyoungest Greaves 100 goals in the English league and his1960 distance of 41 goals in 61 league record at Chelsea is still inthe day. 1990 saw the Chelsea PointThe slowly becoming the solution ASA important force in European football and Ken Bates fundedthe English as the purchase of several world class players, including Ruud Gullit Dutchsuperstar (from Sampdoria) and construction supremoMark Hughes (Manchester United). With its firstseason Gullit as player-manager, Chelsea won their first trophy for 26 years when Middlesborough beat to win the FA Cup in 1997.The departure of Gullit in 1998 crash led to the appointment ofanother player-manager, l "The Italian striker Gianluca Vialli, andthe development team has continued to bring some successwith" a victory for FA Cup in 2000, followed immediately by Vialli'sdismissal. Accordingly, his successor, Claudio Ranieri, was responsible for a team that many commentators felt goodquality and depth, but in the show, when the fortunes turning pointin Chelsea did. The new dawn for Chelsea broke when the club was taken byRussian Roman Abramovich in 2003. The book immediatelyopened significant control over the management of clubs, whospent more than $ 150 million in a new talent includingClaude injection Makll, Glen Johnson Joe Cole and Damien Duff. Unfortunately, the investment did not give trophies, and was prepared newmanager José Mourinho from Portugal for the 2004season. Mourinho has made an impression immediately, not only in the theChelsea team, but Italian football in general, and units combined andambition lucky transformedthe of Ambramovich have fortunes Chelsea.Chelsea TodayToday, Chelsea has an extraordinary number of players: Peter Bonetti popularity Echoingthe principles, goalkeeper Petr Cech israted by many as the guardian # 1 'in the Premier League and one of the best in the world. However only 23, made his debut in inits