Attilio Lombardo
| Attilio Lombardo | ||
 Attilio Lombardo (2013)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | January 6, 1966 | |
| place of birth | Santa Maria la Fossa , Italy | |
| size | 177 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| US pergocrema | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1983-1985 | US pergocrema | 38 (9) |
| 1985-1989 | US Cremonese | 141 (17) |
| 1989-1995 | Sampdoria Genoa | 201 (34) |
| 1995-1997 | Juventus Turin | 35 (2) |
| 1997-1999 | Crystal Palace | 49 (8) |
| 1999-2001 | Lazio Rome | 33 (2) |
| 2001-2002 | Sampdoria Genoa | 34 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1990-1997 | Italy | 18 (3) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1998 | Crystal Palace (player-manager) | |
| 2002-2006 | Sampdoria Genoa (youth coach) | |
| 2006-2007 | FC Chiasso | |
| 2008 | US Castelnuovo Garfagnana | |
| 2008-2009 | AC Legnano | |
| 2009 | Specia Calcio | |
| 2010–2012 | Manchester City ( assistant coach ) | |
| 2012-2013 | Manchester City (Reserve) | |
| 2013-2014 | Galatasaray Istanbul (Assistant Coach) | |
| 2014-2015 | FC Schalke 04 (assistant coach) | |
| 2016-2018 | FC Turin (assistant coach) | |
| 2019– | Italy (assistant coach) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Attilio Lombardo (born January 6, 1966 in Santa Maria la Fossa (CE) , Italy ) is a former Italian football player and current coach .
During his playing career he played as a right winger. Because of his bald head , Lombardo was also known as Popeye in Italy and nicknamed The Bald Eagle in England .
Player career
In the club
Lombardo took his first steps as a professional in 1983 in the C2 series at US Pergocrema . He then moved to US Cremonese in Series B in 1985 . He spent four years in Cremona . For the 1989/90 season he moved to Sampdoria Genoa . Under Vujadin Boškov he won the Italian championship in the 1990/91 season together with players like Gianluca Vialli , Roberto Mancini , Pietro Vierchowod or Gianluca Pagliuca and in 1992 reached the final of the European Cup , which was won in extra time with a goal from Ronald Koeman lost to FC Barcelona .
After a few more good years in Genoa , Lombardo moved to Juventus Turin in the summer of 1995 , where he repeatedly had injury problems. Nevertheless, he won the Champions League with the team in 1995/96 and the World Cup and the European Super Cup in 1996 . He also won his second Italian championship in the 1996/97 season.
In the summer of 1997 he went to the Premier League promoted Crystal Palace in England , where he played for a year and a half and in 1998 he worked as a player- coach with the Swede Tomas Brolin . At the end of the 1997/98 season, the team rose again. For the 1998/99 season Terry Venables took over the team and Lombardo decided to stay. When the club got into financial difficulties at the end of 1998, the expenses for salaries had to be reduced and so he moved back to Italy to Lazio Rome in January 1999 . At Lazio he played until January 2001 and won the European Cup Winners' Cup with the team in 1998/99 and his third Italian championship and the Coppa Italia in the 1999/2000 season .
In January 2001 Lombardo moved back to Sampdoria Genoa in Serie B , in which he ended his career as a player in 2002.
In the national team
Lombardo made 18 caps for Italy between 1990 and 1997 , scoring three goals. In his position in right midfield he always had great competition with players like Roberto Donadoni , Gianluigi Lentini and Angelo Di Livio .
Coaching career
Attilio Lombardo was player-coach for the English first division club Crystal Palace for a short time in the 1997/98 season .
After his playing career, he worked as a youth coach at Sampdoria Genoa from 2002 to 2006 .
From summer 2006 to May 2007 Lombardo was head coach at FC Chiasso in Switzerland . On April 24, 2008 he was coach of the US Castelnuovo Garfagnana in the C2 series and saved the Tuscan club from relegation to the D series . On May 28, 2008 he was introduced as the coach of Serie C1 club AC Legnano . This was followed by a brief engagement at Spezia Calcio .
From 2010, Lombardo worked as assistant coach to Roberto Mancini at Manchester City . In 2011/12 he became English champions for the first time in 44 years with the club . The following season he took over the reserve team from Manchester City. For the 2013/2014 season he moved to Galatasaray Istanbul , where he again acted as Mancini's assistant coach.
Since October 7, 2014 he was assistant coach under Roberto Di Matteo at FC Schalke 04 , where he completed the new coaching team with goalkeeping coach Massimo Battara . After the end of the 2014/15 season, Di Matteo's work as an assistant coach ended with the end of his coaching activities.
From 2016 to 2018 Lombardo was Siniša Mihajlović's assistant coach at FC Turin . With Mihajlović's dismissal, Lombardo also had to leave. In March 2019 Roberto Mancini brought him to his coaching staff for the Italian national team .
successes
As a player
- UEFA Champions League winners : 1995/96 (with Juventus Turin)
- UEFA Champions League finalist : 1996/97 (with Juventus Turin)
- European Cup winners : 1989/90 (with Sampdoria Genoa) - 1998/99 (with Lazio Rome)
- UEFA Super Cup winners : 1996 (with Juventus Turin) - 1999 (with Lazio)
- World Cup Winner : 1996 (with Juventus Turin)
- Italian champion : 1990/91 (with Sampdoria Genoa) - 1996/97 (with Juventus Turin) - 1999/2000 (with Lazio Rome)
- Italian Cup Winner : 1993/94 (with Sampdoria Genoa) - 1999/2000 (with Lazio Rome)
- Italian Supercup winner : 1991 (with Sampdoria Genoa) - 1995 (with Juventus Turin) - 1997 (with Juventus Turin) - 2000 (with Lazio Rome)
Web links
- Attilio Lombardo in the database of weltfussball.de
- Photos by Attilio Lombardo
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lombardo, Attilio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Maria la Fossa |