![]() ![]() Roma eventually went on to lift the scudetto that season, as Lazio finished the season in third place. ![]() On 17 December 2000, Lazio's Paolo Negro scored an own goal in a 1–0 Roma victory. In 1979, Lazio fan Vincenzo Paparelli was hit in the eye and killed by a flare fired by a Roma fan from the opposite end of the stadium, becoming the first fatality in Italian football due to violence. Thanks to the influence of Fascist general, Giorgio Vaccaro, Lazio were the only major team from Rome to resist the merger, thus a kind of rivalry emerged from the very early years of the coexistence in the same city. It was the intention of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini to create a unified Roman club to challenge the dominance of Northern clubs. Roma was founded in 1927 as a result of a merger between three teams: Roman, Alba-Audace and Fortitudo, initiated by Italo Foschi. Making ironic remarks, known as sfottò, focused on the origins of both sets of fans, is a traditional way of teasing between the supporters of Lazio and Roma. Thus, the Lazio ultras traditionally occupy the northern end ( Curva Nord) and Roma's the southern end ( Curva Sud) of the Stadio Olimpico. ![]() ![]() Roma began playing at the Motovelodromo Appio and subsequently, when the new stadium was built after only two years, moved to the working-class rione of Testaccio. Lazio was founded in 1900 in Piazza della Libertà, Borough of Prati and initially played at the Rondinella field in the upper-class quartiere of Parioli. 5 Head-to-head ranking in Serie A (1930–2022). ![]()
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