HELLAS VERONA FC logo ai file. Click the button below to Download. Origin and early history It was founded in 1903 by high school students. The name of the club was commissioned by a professor of Western classical studies and named it Ellas (Greek in Greek). At that time, soccer was a sport that was mainly played in the metropolitan cities of northern Italy, so most of Verona were indifferent to soccer. In 1906, the city's two football teams chose the Roman Amphitheater as their venue, which aroused a passionate audience and media interest. In the first few years, Ellas was one of the three or four teams that played mainly at the city level, while the city's rival Bentegodi became the city's first football team. Around the 1907-1908 season, Ellas played against the main teams, from which time a fierce rivalry with Vicenza Calcio developed. From 1908 to 1926 Italian football was organized into main groups. During this time, Ellas was one of the earliest founding teams in the...