Fortitudo Agrigento is an Italian professional

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team, based in

Agrigento Agrigento (; or ) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. Founded around 582 BC by Greek colonists from Gela, Agrigento, then known as Akragas, was one of the leading cities during the golden ...

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/ref> Founded in 1969, the side plays in the second division Serie A2 as of the 2015–16 season.

History

Before the creation of Fortitudo Agrigento, there were many different teams in

. In 1968, one of these local teams achieved promotion to Serie C, but due to financial difficulties it soon had to leave the league. In 1969, Fortitudo Agrigento was founded and started in the 7th-tier League, "Promozione", of the

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. During the 1988–89 season, Fortitudo achieved promotion to

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beating

Porto Empedocle Porto Empedocle () is a town and ''comune'' in Italy on the coast of the Strait of Sicily, administratively part of the province of Agrigento. It was named after Empedocles, a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of the city of Akragas (p ...

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and many other popular teams. In the next season, Fortitudo was relegated again to Serie C and decided to rebuild part of the team from the 1988–89 season with a new manager. At the end of the season Agrigento was again in Serie B. From the 2007-08 season, Fortitudo Agrigento achieved a series of consecutive promotions until promotion to Serie A2 in 2012.

Notable players

* Daeshon Francis

References

External links

Official website
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