Massimo Battara
| Massimo Battara | ||
 Massimo Battara in 2011
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | May 3, 1963 | |
| place of birth | Genoa , Italy | |
| size | 192 cm | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1981-1982 | Bologna FC | |
| 1982-1983 | Viadanese | |
| 1983-1984 | Sampdoria Genoa | |
| 1984-1985 | SS Sambenedettese Calcio | |
| 1985-1986 | SSD Puteolana | |
| 1986-1989 | US Casertana | |
| 1989-1991 | US Salernitana | |
| 1991-1992 | US Lecce | |
| 1992-1993 | SPAL Ferrara | |
| 1994-1995 | US Sassuolo Calcio | |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1998-2000 | Ittihad FC (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2001 | SSC Napoli (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2001-2002 | AC Florence (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2004-2008 | Inter Milan (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2008-2009 | Benevento Calcio (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2009-2013 | Manchester City (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2014-2015 | FC Schalke 04 (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2015-2016 | FC Pune City (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2016 | Aston Villa (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2017-2018 | Zenit St. Petersburg (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 2018– | Italy (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Massimo Battara (born May 3, 1963 in Genoa , Italy ) is a former Italian football player and current football coach . In his coaching role, he attaches particular importance to control of the penalty area and positional play. He has trained national goalkeepers like Júlio César and Joe Hart .
Player career
His first professional station was at FC Bologna , which he left after only one season. He then joined Viadanese, Sampdoria Genoa , SS Sambenedettese Calcio and SSD Puteolana 1902 Internapoli for one season , rather he was under contract with US Casertana for three years from 1986 to 1989. This was followed by a two-year engagement at US Salernitana . Towards the end of his active career, he joined the clubs US Lecce , SPAL Ferrara and US Sassuolo Calcio for one year each .
Coaching career
After a three-year break from professional sport, he started working for Ittihad FC as a goalkeeping coach in 1998 . In 2000 he left the club. Battara moved back to his Italian homeland. In 2001 he was responsible for goalkeeper training at SSC Napoli . He then worked from 2001 to 2002 as a goalkeeping coach at Fiorentina . He was then unemployed for two years. In 2004 he signed a contract with Inter Milan . There Roberto Mancini was the coach with whom he played at Sampdoria Genoa in the 1980s. Battara experienced his most successful years as a goalkeeping coach with the Milanese. So he was able to celebrate the Italian championship three times in a row . When Inter coach Mancini dismissed at the end of the 2007/08 season, Battara also ended his activity with the champions and joined Benevento Calcio until 2009 . When Roberto Mancini coached Manchester City in 2009 , he brought Battara to the island as goalkeeping coach. There he was once English cup winner and English champion . From October 7, 2014 to June 30, 2015 he was the goalkeeping coach under Roberto Di Matteo at FC Schalke 04 , where he completed the new coaching team with assistant coach Attilio Lombardo . There he replaced the previous goalkeeping coach Holger Gehrke . With Di Matteo's resignation from his coaching position on June 30, 2015, Battara also retired as goalkeeping coach. Simon Henzler became his successor . From July 2015 to 2016 he was the goalkeeping coach of the Indian soccer club FC Pune City . In 2016 he worked with Roberto Di Matteo at Aston Villa . When Di Matteo was fired, his successor Steve Bruce preferred another goalkeeping coach. Battara began his engagement at Zenit St. Petersburg under Roberto Mancini in July 2017 . Together with Mancini, he left St. Petersburg and began coaching the Italian national team in 2018 .
successes
As a goalkeeper coach with his clubs
* awarded as a result of the Italian football scandal in 2005/2006
Web links
- Massimo Battara in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c FC Schalke 04 : Massimo Battara ( Memento from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Profile on the website of Schalke 04.de.
- ^ Ruhr Nachrichten : New trainer Massimo Battara: Ralf Fährmann on the new goalkeeper training , accessed on October 15, 2014.
- ↑ WAZ : Di Matteo brings assistants Lombardo and Battara to Schalke , accessed on October 7, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Battara, Massimo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian football goalkeeper and goalkeeper coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa , Italy |