Cristiano Lucarelli

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Cristiano Lucarelli
Lucarelli 2011 (cropped) .jpg
Cristiano Lucarelli 2011
Personnel
birthday 4th October 1975
place of birth Livorno ,  Italy
size 188 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1981-1988 Carli Salviano
1988-1992 Armando Picchi Calcio
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1993 Cuoiopelli AS 28 0(5)
1993-1995 AC Perugia 7 0(0)
1995-1996 AS Cosenza Calcio 32 (15)
1996-1997 Padova Calcio 34 (18)
1997-1998 Atalanta Bergamo 26 0(5)
1998-1999 Valencia CF 13 0(1)
1999-2001 US Lecce 59 (26)
2001-2003 Torino Calcio 55 (10)
2003-2007 AS Livorno 146 (92)
2007 Shakhtar Donetsk 12 0(4)
2008–2012 Parma FC 45 (16)
2009-2010 →  AS Livorno  (loan) 28 (10)
2010–2012 →  SSC Napoli  (loan) 12 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1996 Italy Olympia 2 0(0)
1996-1997 Italy U21 10 (10)
1997 Italy U23 2 0(0)
2005-2007 Italy 6 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2012-2013 Parma FC (Youth)
2013 AC Perugia Calcio
2013-2014 FC Esperia Viareggio
2014-2015 US Pistoiese
2015-2016 AC Tuttocuoio 1957
2016-2017 ACR Messina
2017-2018 Catania Calcio
2018 AS Livorno
1 Only league games are given.

Cristiano Lucarelli (born October 4, 1975 in Livorno ) is a former Italian football player .

Career

societies

Youth (1981-1992)

Lucarelli's club career began at the age of six with Carli Salviano , where he played for seven years. He then went to a more organized club, Armando Picchi Calcio , where he was active for four years. At 17 he went to Cuoiopelli , where he scored five goals in 28 games in the amateur championship.

Time as a wandering bird (1992-2003)

Cristiano Lucarelli's professional career began in Serie B at AC Perugia , where he only played seven competitive games in two years. After two years he went to Serie B rivals AS Cosenza Calcio in 1996 , where he scored 15 goals in 32 games. That same year, Lucarelli was a member of the Italian Olympic selection at the 1996 Summer Olympics . Lucarelli then moved again, this time to Calcio Padova (also Serie B), where he also had a good hit rate with 18 goals in 34 games. In 1997 he finally came to a Serie A club , Atalanta Bergamo , where he was only able to score five goals in 28 games due to injuries.

Until then, Lucarelli had long been considered an eternal talent and was hoping for the big breakthrough. Because of this, but also because of the political hostility that happened to him after his jubilation in a U-21 game with a Che Guevara portrait under his jersey, he even moved to the Primera División at Valencia CF in the summer of 1998 . But this season he was unlucky and only got one goal in twelve games. Although the season started well for Lucarelli by winning the UEFA Intertoto Cup , he was often set back later by injuries. After this unsuccessful engagement at Valencia, he moved back to Serie A for US Lecce , where he found his form again, so that he scored 27 goals in the two seasons with Lecce.

In the 2001/02 season he then moved to Torino Calcio , where he fell into a form crisis again and scored only ten goals in two seasons. The club officials were surprised when Lucarelli cut his salary on his own initiative because he saw himself as overpaid.

AS Livorno (2003-2007)

After AS Livorno had made it to the second division Serie B in the 2002/03 season, Lucarelli moved from his former club, AC Turin, to Livorno, foregoing an annual salary of around 500,000 euros. “The eternal talent is running back to his mom!” Was the headline of an Italian newspaper at the time, accusing the then 28-year-old of lacking will to assert himself.

Nevertheless, it was Lucarelli who, with his 29 goals in 41 games, played a key role in AS Livorno's ascent to Serie A. In his first Serie A season with Livorno, Lucarelli was the top scorer with 24 goals in 35 games. For this achievement he also received the award "Sportsman of the Year in Tuscany 2005". The close ties to his association have remained. Lucarelli tattooed the club's emblem on his left forearm.

He remained true to his philosophy of giving up money for his team and in 2006 turned down a lucrative offer from Zenit St. Petersburg with the words, “ There are footballers who buy a Ferrari or a yacht for a billion, I buy myself for it a Livorno shirt - that's all ”, from.

Lucarelli was also very successful in the 2006/2007 season, he scored his 100th Serie A goal and scored a total of 20 goals during this season, which he played a decisive role in Livorno's relegation.

Shakhtar Donetsk (2007)

After dissonances with the club's management and the fans, Lucarelli decided to go to Shakhtar Donetsk , where he signed a lucrative three-year contract that should bring him four million euros a year. Donetsk was awarded the contract for around eight million euros and thus prevailed against other Western European interested parties. Lucarelli was the first Italian ever to venture into the Ukraine. The fans were outraged about his move, as Lucarelli was, as fans believed, one of the few athletes who seemed to be resisting the lure of money. After his move, his website was downright torpedoed with angry comments.

Lucarelli immediately called a press conference in which he announced the reasons for his move: “ I do not want to deny that money is the main reason for my move. “And about why he went to Donetsk, he said:“ It had to be a foreign club, because I didn't want to go to an Italian club and thus cheat the Livorno fans. “Lucarelli had set himself the goal of founding a newspaper in Livorno and thus:“ To create work for people who are well paid and not exploited. "

Lucarelli had little success at Donetsk and was usually only used sporadically as a joker, which was initially due to his lack of training. After Donetsk was eliminated from the Champions League, Lucarelli forced a return to Italy. Lucarelli scored three times in six Champions League appearances, but couldn't get used to everyday life in the Ukrainian league .

FC Parma (2008–2012) and return to Livorno (2009–2010)

Lucarelli moved to FC Parma in January 2008 for 5.7 million euros . The contract, which runs until 2010, brings Lucarelli 1.5 million euros annually into his account, which is around 2.5 million euros less annually than he would have earned at Donetsk. Lucarelli believed that the move to Parma was the best choice he could make and hoped to be recommended again for the Italian national team for EURO 2008 through good games at FC Parma . However, this project failed as did the attempt by Parma FC to keep the class and so Lucarelli had to relegate to Serie B with FC Parma despite his four important goals at the end of the 2007/08 season . Under Lucarelli as the new captain Parmas for the 2008/09 season, the team succeeded in the immediate promotion.

Nevertheless, he joined AS Livorno on loan again in the summer of 2009. After Livorno failed to stay up despite Lucarelli's ten goals, he returned to Parma FC.

For the 2010/11 season he was on loan from the Europa League participant SSC Napoli under contract. In his first Europa League game against FC Utrecht (0-0), Lucarelli injured his ligaments so badly that he was out until the end of the year. He also played for Napoli in 2011/12 , at the end of the season Lucarelli ended his active career at the age of 36.

National team

In recognition of his respectable average of goals - he scored before that in two years 49 league goals - invited him Marcello Lippi to take a trip to the national team in the United States and to Canada , where he played his first two international matches in June 2005, taking against Serbia and Montenegro a Goal scored. Despite his success in the two seasons 2004/05 and 2005/06 , in which Lucarelli scored a total of 43 goals in Serie A, the self-confessed communist was not considered for the Italian squad at the 2006 World Cup .

Roberto Donadoni , previously Lucarelli's club coach in Livorno, called him into the squad after the 2006 World Cup to play a friendly against Croatia and two European Championship qualifiers against the Faroe Islands and Lithuania , where he was substituted twice late and once not at all.

Lucarelli was not happy with this situation, but could understand it: “ If you look at my statistics over the last four years, I definitely don't need to hide from other strikers. With my record 102 goals in this time, I would have deserved more appearances in the national team. It is probably the political circumstances that prevent more international matches. "

successes

Attachment to Livorno

Lucarelli attended a game at AS Livorno when he was one and a half years old. Even in his youth he should continue to be Tifoso of his home club, which only played in the C1 series . When he played then himself at Livorno (2003-2007), he was by his many goals and vows to AS Livorno quickly to the favorite of the fans who celebrated it before every game frenetically with chants. The Livorno jersey with its number 99 was almost always sold out.

Furthermore, his connection to his hometown club is still great, he also wore the shirt with the number 99 in Donetsk and Parma and a tattoo on his left upper arm that shows an emblem of AS Livorno.

In 2007 Christiano Lucarelli invested two million euros in the project of a new independent local newspaper. The first edition of the Corriere di Livorno appeared on September 9, 2007. Lucarelli is Chairman of the Board of Directors.

His heroic status, which he undoubtedly has in Livorno, was z. B. clearly through his biography "Keep your millions", which was treated as class reading in Livorno's schools, but was shaken by the sudden change to Shakhtar Donetsk in 2007, so that he returned to his old place of work with his new club Parma in March In 2008 every ball hit was booed and whistled.

Political stance

Since Lucarelli repeatedly celebrated his goals with his communist fist, he was fined 30,000 euros by the Italian Football Association - significantly more than Paolo Di Canio had to pay for his fascist greeting. It was Lucarelli's political stance that almost completely prevented him from starting his national team career, so he made himself unpopular in an U21 game among the management of the Italian Football Association when he took off his jersey after scoring a goal and put it on his T-shirt A portrait of Che Guevara could be seen. Lucarelli met with Guevara's daughter, Aleida Guevara , in the summer of 2005 , where they discussed a possible AS Livorno trip to Cuba , which however never materialized.

He also identifies himself strongly with the anti-fascist ultras of the Brigate Autonome Livornesi , whose jersey number (99) was founded in 1999. After they were collectively arrested after a street battle in spring 2005 with right-wing fans of Lazio Rome , Lucarelli donated three buses for the return trip from custody in Rome.

Private life

Lucarelli is married. The couple have two children. His brother Alessandro is also a footballer and plays for Parma Calcio . In the 2004/05 season both played together at AS Livorno and in the 2008/09 season at FC Parma (now Parma Calcio).

Coaching career

In the 2012/13 season Lucarelli was youth coach at FC Parma , moved to AC Perugia Calcio the next season , but where he gave up his job after almost two months due to problems with the board. In October 2013 he became the coach of FC Esperia Viareggio . However, he also left this club due to a better offer from the US Pistoiese , where he stayed until February 2015. Lucarelli is currently out of employment.

literature

Web links

Commons : Cristiano Lucarelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b THE EARLY CHAMPIONSHIPS at cristianolucarelli.com
  2. ↑ a b FROM SECOND DIVISION TO A SERIES . on cristianolucarelli.com
  3. ^ NATIONAL TEAM (Under 21) and SPAIN . on cristianolucarelli.com
  4. ↑ VALENCIA AND COMING BACK TO ITALY on cristianolucarelli.com
  5. ↑ a b c The rich baron's red striker . In: derStandard.at:, August 13, 2007
  6. ↑ Cristiano Lucarelli: The left right foot goal.com, June 2, 2007
  7. ↑ Shakhtar gets Lucarelli. uefa.com, July 13, 2007
  8. ↑ Lucarelli ready to dazzle Donetsk . uefa.com, July 18, 2007
  9. ↑ Lucarelli back in Italy . derStandard.at, January 15, 2008
  10. ↑ Parma A Great Professional Choice - Lucarelli . goal.com, January 15, 2008
  11. ↑ CAGNI: LUCARELLI CAPITANO . cristianolucarelli.com, June 27, 2008
  12. ↑ Ghirardi Builds 'New Parma' Around Lucarelli . goal.com, June 5, 2008
  13. ↑ Lucarelli transfer finally fixed. LAOLA1.at, July 16, 2009
  14. ↑ Sky Sports Lucarelli loaned to Napoli
  15. ↑ uefa.com: Napoli a few months without Lucarelli
  16. ↑ MY CHILDHOOD on cristianolucarelli.com
  17. ↑ Chi siamo on corrieredilivorno.it
  18. ↑ Livorno-Parma, un gol per parte e un punto per sperare ancora , la Repubblica.it, March 16, 2008
  19. ↑ Livorno Parma fischi a Lucarelli. youtube.com, March 20, 2008
  20. ↑ Cristiano Lucarelli shows Che Shirt. youtube.com, October 8, 2007
  21. ↑ http://www.transfermarkt.de/cristiano-lucarelli/profil/trainer/29498
personal data
SURNAME Lucarelli, Cristiano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Livorno , Italy