Original Diadora football shirt Vicenza Calcio 2008/09

The 2008-2009 championship opens with a hesitant Vicenza, who manages to collect only one point in the first three races. However, there follows a streak of nine consecutive useful results, which bring the team to the edge of the play-off zone. Thanks to the fundamental contribution in terms of goals by Sgrigna and Bjelanović, to a defense that for many months remains the least perforated of the tournament and to a quality midfield, Vicenza can dream until spring, when it enters a period poor in results. and stabilizes, until the end of the championship, in the middle of the table, penalized among other things by the serious injuries of the central defender Di Cesare and captain Bernardini. Mathematical salvation comes with 3 games to go, during the Venetian derby against Treviso, won by the red and white 1-0.

The penultimate game of the season is marked by the death of the young fan Eugenio Bortolon, only 19 years old. The supporter (in his second away match) had followed the red and white to the Tardini Stadium in Parma when, at 49 ', he fell from the stands of the guest sector. Urgently transported to the Parma hospital in very serious condition, he died the same evening due to cardiac arrest. Controversy has also arisen due to the fact that, despite both the Vicenza and Parma players having asked to stop the game, after a suspension of 20 minutes it was decided to resume playing. A minute of silence was observed on all fields the next day.