Eusebio Di Francesco

Eusebio Di Francesco
Eusebio Di Francesco (2018)
Personnel
birthday	September 8, 1969
place of birth	Pescara ,  Italy
size	177 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1985-1991	FC Empoli	102 0(3)
1991-1995	AS Lucchese Libertas	139 (12)
1995-1997	Piacenza Calcio	67 0(5)
1997-2001	AS Roma	101 (14)
2001-2003	Piacenza Calcio	61 (12)
2003-2004	AC Ancona	10 0(0)
2004-2005	Perugia Calcio	35 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1998-2000	Italy	12 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2008-2009	SS Virtus Lanciano
2010-2011	Pescara Calcio
2011	US Lecce
2012-2014	US Sassuolo Calcio
2014-2017	US Sassuolo Calcio
2017-2019	AS Roma
2019	Sampdoria Genoa
2020–	Cagliari Calcio
1 Only league games are given.

Eusebio Di Francesco (born September 8, 1969 in Pescara ) is a former Italian football player and current coach . During his active career he was active for various Italian clubs and also played twelve games for the Italian national football team . He is currently training Cagliari Calcio .

Player career

society

Eusebio Di Francesco began his career in 1985 with FC Empoli , with whom he made promotion to Serie A in his first season . In the following two seasons he was in the squad of the Tuscan club, but only completed one game in the top division and rose again to Serie B with Empoli . He made his debut in the top division on January 31, 1988 in the away game at Juventus Turin , which was lost 4-0. After he ran up in 34 games for the club in the 1988/89 season, relegation could not be secured again and the midfielder then joined the third-rate C1 series for two years . Di Francesco made 67 Serie C1 appearances, scoring three goals for Empoli and being sent off for the first time in his career.

In the summer of 1991 he moved to the second division AS Lucchese Libertas , where four years in Serie B ran up as a regular and became an integral part of the team. In 1995 he signed a contract with Piacenza Calcio . There, too, he was always one of the permanent staff, but rose after the 1996/97 season with the team from the top division. The midfielder then left the club and joined AS Roma . In his first season with the capital city, he was placed fourth and qualified for the UEFA Cup . In the following two years, Di Francesco qualified with the capitals for the UEFA Cup.

In the 1998/99 season he scored eight league goals for AS Roma and thus established his best career value. His greatest successes during his club career, however, came in the 2000/01 season when he won the Scudetto with AS Roma . A year later these gave him to the league competitor Piacenza Calcio. With the following stations AC Ancona and Perugia Calcio he let his career end.

National team

The midfielder was appointed by coach Cesare Maldini in October 1997 for the first time in the squad of the Italian national team, but only made his debut in the national team a year later under his successor Dino Zoff . He made his debut on September 5, 1998 against Wales, the Italians won the game 2-0. He played a total of twelve games for Italy, his last appearance on April 26, 2000 against Portugal ended with a 2-0 win for Italy.

Coaching career

As the first station of his coaching career, Di Francesco took over the third division SS Virtus Lanciano in the summer of 2008 . In January 2009 he was fired from Lanciano and replaced by Dino Pagliari . In September 2009 Pescara Calcio appointed him the new technical director. After the dismissal of the head coach Antonello Cuccureddu on January 12, 2010, he finally took over the coaching post with the Biancoazzurri . However, Di Francesco's engagement in Lecce was short-lived, he was dismissed that same year due to poor performance of his team and replaced by Serse Cosmi .

After a good six months without employment, Eusebio Di Francesco was the new coach of the Serie B club US Sassuolo Calcio for the 2012/13 season , with whom he achieved his first promotion to Serie A at the end of the season. After the club slipped to a relegation zone in the following season, Di Francesco was sacked at the end of January 2014 and replaced by Alberto Malesani , but hired again after just 35 days and achieved relegation at the end of Serie A 2013/14 . In the following three years Di Francesco managed to establish the US Sassuolo Calcio in the top Italian division and even to lead once in the UEFA Europa League . In the 2016/17 edition , however, they failed in the group stage as the last behind KRC Genk , Athletic Bilbao and Rapid Wien .

In June 2017, he became the new coach of AS Roma, succeeding Luciano Spalletti . Without a title win, Di Francesco was sacked as head coach of the Roma in March 2019. This was preceded, among other things, by a 3-0 defeat in the derby against Lazio and the knockout in the round of 16 in the Champions League against FC Porto .

In June 2019 Di Francesco became head coach of the Italian first division club Sampdoria Genoa . In October 2019 he was sacked after six defeats in the first seven games of the 2019/20 season at Sampdoria.

At the beginning of August 2020, Di Francesco signed a contract with Cagliari Calcio until June 2022.

Private

His son Federico is also a professional soccer player.

Web links

Commons : Eusebio Di Francesco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eusebio Di Francesco in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile on the website of the Italian Association (Italian, English)
• Player profile on legaseriea.it (Italian, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lanciano, ecco Di Francesco  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian), accessed October 21, 2016  
2. ↑ Di Francesco lascia il posto a Dino Pagliari (Italian), accessed on October 21, 2016
3. ↑ Il Pescara ammaina la bandiera Di Mascio (Italian), accessed on 21 October 2016
4. ↑ COMUNICATO STAMPA - January 12, 2010 (Italian), accessed October 21, 2016
5. ^ Sassuolo fires trainer , accessed October 21, 2016
6. ↑ Sassuolo fires trainer Malesani , accessed October 21, 2016
7. ↑ http://www.asroma.com/en/news/2017/6/roma-appoint-di-francesco-as-new-head-coach
8. ↑ Eusebio Di Francesco leaves AS Roma , asroma.it, accessed on March 8, 2019 (English)
9. ↑ sampdoria.it - ​​Di Francesco è il nuovo allenatore della Sampdoria
10. ↑ 6 defeats from 7 games: Di Francesco has to vacate coaching positions at Sampdoria , transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 7, 2019
11. ^ Di Francesco new trainer in Cagliari. In: rp-online.de . August 3, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 .