1909 Italian Football Championship for the victory "Coppa Buni", but this title isn't currently recognized by FIGC as "scudetto". 1909 Italian Football Championship The 1909 Italian Football Championship season was won by Pro Vercelli. In this season, as in the previous one, two championships of "Prima Categoria" were played: The winner of Italian Championship was Juventus. They won as prize "Coppa Buni". The winner of Federal Championship was Pro Vercelli. They won as prize "Coppa Oberti". However, the "spurious international teams" (the clubs composed mostly of foreign players), adversing the autarchical policy of the FIF, decide to withdraw from Italian Championship in order to
Italian battleship Roma (1940) forces, they would easily outnumber the Italian fleet. Mussolini postponed his decision, but later authorized planning for the two ships in January 1937. In December, they were approved and money was allocated for them; they were named "Roma" and ("Empire"). Laid down nearly four years after "Vittorio Veneto" and "Littorio", "Roma" was able to incorporate a few design improvements. Her bow was noticeably redesigned to give "Roma" additional freeboard; partway into construction, it was modified on the basis of experience with "Vittorio Veneto" so that it had had a finer end at the waterline. She was also equipped with thirty-two