Marconi Stallions FC at the 9,000-capacity Marconi Stadium. Club Marconi was founded as a bocce club in 1956 by 106 members of the Italian community in the Western Suburbs of Sydney. It is named after the Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi, whose wireless company sent the first direct radio message from Great Britain to Australia. The soccer club first appeared in 1958 as a youth team, and the first senior side competed in the 1961 NSW amateur championship that it won by 8 points. The club gradually moved up the ranks in the NSW soccer system, eventually gaining promotion to the
Ivan Marconi U.S. Cremonese. Ivan Marconi Ivan Marconi (born 25 October 1989) is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie B club Cremonese. Born in Brescia, Lombardy, Marconi started his career with Internazionale. In 2006–07 season, he was awarded no.41 shirt of the first team as a member of Primavera team. In mid-2007, he was transferred to Lumezzane for free but loaned to Brescia on 31 August 2007. In the next season he was signed by Sampdoria youth team. Marconi received a call-up from the first team on 20 January 2009. In January 2009 he was sold to Gubbio from Lumezzane in