Ciro Ferrara
| Ciro Ferrara | ||
 Ciro Ferrara, 2012
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | February 11, 1967 | |
| place of birth | Naples , Italy | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | Central defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1980-1984 | SSC Naples | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1984-1994 | SSC Naples | 247 (12) |
| 1994-2005 | Juventus Turin | 253 (15) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1986-1988 | Italy U-21 | 6 (1) |
| 1988 | Italy Olympia | 6 (1) |
| 1987-2000 | Italy | 49 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2005-2006 | Italy (assistant coach) | |
| 2008-2009 | Italy (assistant coach) | |
| 2009-2010 | Juventus Turin | |
| 2010–2012 | Italy U-21 | |
| 2012 | Sampdoria Genoa | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Ciro Ferrara (born February 11, 1967 in Naples ) is a former Italian football player and current coach .
Ferrara was considered a technically good central defender with a strong header and, together with Paolo Montero , formed one of the best central defenses in the world at Juventus Turin in the late 1990s . He was also able to win six championship titles as a player.
As assistant coach to Italy head coach Marcello Lippi , he celebrated winning the 2006 World Cup in Germany . From summer 2006 to 2009 he worked as coordinator of the youth department at Juventus Turin. On May 18, 2009, he also replaced the dismissed head coach Claudio Ranieri and, after a successful end to the season, became the new head coach of the old lady .
Player career
In the club
Until 1994: SSC Napoli
At the age of 14, Ciro Ferrara was temporarily using a wheelchair because of the pain caused by Osgood-Schlatter disease. However, this disease did not prevent his sporting career, which reached its first climax on May 5, 1985 in the Stadio San Paolo in Naples with his Serie A debut. Ironically, he played in his first game against Juventus Turin , the club with which he would later win many national and international titles.
At this time, Diego Maradona also played in Naples and led the team around Gianfranco Zola and Ferrara to their first Scudetto win and their second success in the Coppa Italia in the 1986/87 season. After two consecutive runner-up championships, in which the Milanese clubs AC 1987/88 and Inter 1988/89 had to go first, Ferrara's team won the last championship title for the SSC under the new coach Alberto Bigon in 1989/90 . Ferrara's first coach and sponsor Ottavio Bianchi , who started working for Napoli in 1985 , had been replaced by Bigon after taking the two second places.
Ciro Ferrara also did not remain without a title in his Neapolitan days. In the 1988/89 season he won his and Naples' first European trophy by winning the UEFA Cup against VfB Stuttgart (2-1 and 3-3).
After the championship in 1990, the club fell off at the beginning of the 1990s and only reached seventh place under Bigon. He was then followed by coach Claudio Ranieri with fourth place, Ottavio Bianchi with a short intermezzo for eleventh place and Marcello Lippi with sixth place, who signed with the Italian record champions Juventus after this one season in 1993/94 and his defense chief Ferrara became an old lady after ten professional years piloted.
Ferrara wore the blue jersey 323 times in ten seasons, of which he made 247 appearances in Serie A (12 goals) and 47 in the Cup (2 goals). He also ran once in the Supercoppa Italiana and won it. At European level he played 28 times for the SSC.
1994-2005: Juventus Turin
With the change of the Neapolitan veteran to the Bianconeri in Turin , the second half of Ciro Ferrara's active career began, which should be no less successful. In his first season in the white and black jersey, he won his third Scudetto in 1994/95 , which should mean the twentieth for Juventus, and with the triumph in the Coppa Italia he won his second and Juve's last title in the cup competition. The following year he won the Champions League on penalties against Louis van Gaal 's Ajax Amsterdam . Ferrara converted his penalty that evening at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome .
In the old lady's jersey he played 358 times: 253 Serie A games (plus a play-off for a placement for a European competition), in which he scored 15 goals; 26 cup games and three Supercup appearances; 74 appearances in the European Cup and one game for the World Cup against River Plate from Argentina .
In Turin he won six Scudetti (1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005), with the 2004/05 title being revoked as part of the Italian manipulation scandal of 2006 Juve - he also won his second Italian Cup (1995), four Italian Supercups (1995, 1997, 2002, 2003), once the UEFA Champions League (1996), a European Supercup (1996), a World Cup (1996) and once the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1999 .
On May 15, 2005, almost exactly 20 years after his debut, Ferrara played his last game against Parma FC in Turin. At the end of this season he ended his career with his seventh championship title. He is the tenth Italian player to have played over 500 Serie A league games. His coaches at the Old Lady were Marcello Lippi (1994–1999 and 2001–2004), Carlo Ancelotti (1999–2001) and Fabio Capello (from 2004).
In an emotional farewell game in the Stadio San Paolo in Naples, Ferrara stepped off the football stage, accompanied by many companions. The presence of Diego Maradona, who was frenetically celebrated by over 70,000 spectators, even made the main actor a supporting actor at times.
In the national team
Ciro Ferrara made his debut in the Italian national team on June 10, 1987 in a 3-1 win against Argentina . He also belonged 1988 to the Italian Olympic team at the Summer Games in Seoul finished fourth. In 1990 he was part of the Italian team that finished third at the home World Cup against England . However, Italy did not qualify for the 1992 Euro in Sweden .
With the transfer to Juventus Turin Ferrara became a regular player in the Squadra Azzurra , but he was injured in 1996 before the European Championship in England and was therefore out of the tournament. Italy were eliminated in the group stage. The same thing happened to him before the World Cup in France , where the Azzurri ended the tournament on penalties in the quarter-finals against the hosts.
Under goalkeeping legend Dino Zoff , Ferrara played his last games for the Italians at the 2000 European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands . There were only a few seconds missing to win the title against France , but where Sylvain Wiltord and Ferrara's later teammate of Juventus David Trezeguet still decided the game for the Blues (1: 2 ae).
Since Ferrara was no longer considered under the subsequent national coach Giovanni Trapattoni , the number of his internationals was limited to 49 internationals (no goal).
Coaching career
2005–2006: Assistant to Marcello Lippi
After his career at Juventus, Ciro Ferrara became part of the coaching team around national coach Marcello Lippi . There he was assigned the post of assistant coach and thus also contributed to winning the 2006 world championship in Germany .
2006–2008: Youth coordinator at Juventus Turin
After the 2006 World Cup, Ferrara worked for two years as coordinator of the youth department at Juventus Turin. In the meantime he also worked as a football commentator for Italian pay TV .
2008–2009: Return to the Squadra Azzurra bench
After the unsuccessful Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland , world champion coach Lippi replaced the hapless Roberto Donadoni on the bench of the Italian national team and also moved Ferrara to return as his assistant coach.
2009-2010: Juventus Turin
Interim coach for two games
After Claudio Ranieri's dismissal on May 18, 2009, Ferrara took over as Juventus' interim coach for two games in order to create direct qualification for the UEFA Champions League , which was no longer considered safe under his predecessor. The team had turned against Ranieri and accused him of tactical mistakes. The disagreements in the team culminated in the fact that Mauro Camoranesi refused to be substituted at halfway through the game against US Lecce and yelled at the coach.
A week later, on May 24th, Ferrara made his debut on the White Black Bench and led the team to a 3-0 win against AC Siena . With a 2-0 win against Lazio Rome , he won the runner-up championship in Serie A with his second win, thus qualifying directly for the 2009/10 Champions League .
During the summer break for the 2009/10 season , the name of Roma coach Luciano Spalletti circulated in the Italian gazettes, who was supposed to take over the old lady for the next season, but on June 5, 2009, he announced that he would be at the capital's club wanted to stay and so Ferrara was appointed head coach for the 2009/10 season on the same day and signed a two-year contract.
2009/10 season
For the 2009/10 season, the Old Lady's team was formally renewed. In the summer, players like Olof Mellberg , Cristiano Zanetti and Marco Marchionni were given up, and Pavel Nedvěd also ended his active career. The black and white invested in Diego (until then Werder Bremen ), Felipe Melo ( AC Florence ) and Fabio Grosso ( Olympique Lyon ) in new potential top performers. National team captain Fabio Cannavaro was also brought back from Real Madrid to form the new central defense together with Giorgio Chiellini . With these new purchases and Ferrara on the dugout, the Bianconeri wanted to dispute the current series champion Inter Milan for the Scudetto.
After a promising start with four wins and two draws in six games, the team's first defeat against US Palermo (0: 2) was followed by inconsistent performances, which in December with the defeat against Bari (1: 3) and the last in the championship Catania (1: 2) found their low point. Before that, Ferrara's team gambled away the almost certain promotion to the Champions League eighth-finals by losing 4-1 to Bayern Munich in the last group game, whereupon the young coach apologized to the fans. After this defeat, voices were raised that Ferrara should be sacked. But the then newly elected Juve President Jean-Claude Blanc stuck to him.
During the Christmas break of Serie A, some speculation about Ferrara's whereabouts in Turin circulated through the media landscape. Thus Guus Hiddink , whose contract as Russian coach ended, and Italy -Coach Marcello Lippi , who was as Ferrara's successor after the season talking traded.
At the end of the year, Ferrara and his team were in third place in Serie A and "overwintered" internationally after being eliminated from the Champions League in the Europa League .
On January 29, 2010, Ferrara was sacked by Juventus. On October 22, 2010, after the dismissal of Pierluigi Casiraghi, he was appointed the new coach of the Italian U-21 national team.
2012: Sampdoria Genoa
For the 2012/13 season he took over the newcomers from Serie B, Sampdoria Genoa. After a successful start, he was released on December 17, 2012, as Sampdoria came closer and closer to the relegation ranks.
successes
As a player
- SCC Naples
- UEFA Cup : 1988/89
- Italian champion : 1986/87 , 1989/90
- Italian cup winner : 1986/87
- Italian Super Cup winner : 1990
- Juventus Turin
- UEFA Champions League : 1995/96
- World Cup : 1996
- UEFA Super Cup : 1996
- UEFA Intertoto Cup : 1999
- Italian champion: 1994/95 , 1996/97 , 1997/98 , 2001/02 , 2002/03 , 2004/05 *
- Italian cup winner: 1994/95
- Italian Supercup winner 1995 , 1997 , 2002 , 2003
* revoked in the context of the Italian soccer scandal 2005/06
- In the national team
As a trainer
- World Champion : 2006 (as assistant coach of the Italian national team)
- Italian runner-up : 2009 (as interim coach of Juventus Turin)
Web links
- Fondazione Fabio Cannavaro Ciro Ferrara (Italian)
- Ciro Ferrara in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Coach profile of Ciro Ferrara. (No longer available online.) Www.juventus.com, archived from the original on August 4, 2009 ; Retrieved July 27, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cito Vincenzo: L 'ultimo ciro. archiviostorico.gazzetta.it, June 4, 2005, accessed July 27, 2009 (Italian).
- ^ The 80s Historical Teams. www.sccnapoli.it, accessed July 27, 2009 .
- ↑ Juventus dismisses Ranieri. www.kicker.de, May 18, 2009, accessed on May 18, 2009 .
- ^ Days of chaos at the old lady. www.kicker.de, May 5, 2009, accessed on July 27, 2009 .
- ↑ Spalletti stays. www.kicker.de, June 5, 2009, accessed on July 27, 2009 .
- ↑ Ferrara remains Juve coach. www.kicker.de, June 5, 2009, accessed June 5, 2009 .
- ↑ Juve stumbles over the bottom light. www.kicker.de, December 20, 2009, accessed on January 2, 2010 .
- ↑ Ferrara apologizes. www.kicker.de, December 9, 2009, accessed on January 2, 2010 .
- ↑ Hiddink wants to stay in Russia. www.kicker.de, December 18, 2009, accessed on January 2, 2010 .
- ↑ Lippi doesn't want to go back to Juve. www.kicker.de, December 22, 2009, accessed on January 2, 2010 .
- ↑ FIGC: Ferrara è il nuovo tecnico, Peruzzi vice: lunedì in Figc la presentazione
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ferrara, Ciro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |