Massimo Mariotti
Massimo Mariotti (born November 22, 1961 in Biel / Bienne ) is a former Swiss football player who played 35 times in the 2nd Bundesliga for MSV Duisburg . He later began a coaching career and worked, among other things, as a youth coach and interpreter for the Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund .
Player career
Mariotti began playing football in his hometown at FC Biel-Bienne , with which he played in the National League B , the second highest league in Switzerland, between 1979 and 1981 . A little later he emigrated with his family to Germany and found a new club in SC Viktoria Köln , with which he competed in the third-class Oberliga Nordrhein . In this, Cologne were mostly among the top teams, but a possible promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga did not succeed. In 1988 he moved to Italy to play at AC Rimini 1912, also playing at the top amateur level . After a year in Rimini, he made the leap into professional football in the run-up to the 1989/90 season, when he was committed by the German second division promoted MSV Duisburg .
The primarily defensive player was already 27 years old when he switched to professional football and made his debut for MSV when he came on for Patrick Notthoff in a 2-1 win against Alemannia Aachen on July 26, 1989 . In the following time he received regular match practice, where he was mainly called up as a substitute. In the summer of 1991, the team managed to bring the founding member of the Bundesliga back to the top division after a nine-year absence. Mariotti was still in the squad during the following year, but coach Willibert Kremer did not rely on him. Thus, his professional career ended in 1992 without a Bundesliga game and after 35 second division games with one goal.
Coach and staff career in football
Even during his professional time, Mariotti had worked on the side, occasionally working in his family's ice cream parlor in Cologne. He then worked in the sales department of a newspaper and at this time also took on tasks as a football coach for the first time. In this way he finally got into the staff of the Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and from 2011 was assistant coach for the second team of BVB . With this he reached promotion to the third division at the end of the 2011/12 season, but then made a change to the youth department and trained the U-13 team from then on.
Due to his origins in the German- and French-speaking city of Biel / Bienne, Mariotti is fluent in these languages as well as Italian and also speaks some Spanish. As a result, he was given a new area of responsibility at Borussia Dortmund from summer 2013 and was supposed to help as an interpreter and supervisor with the integration of the new signings Henrich Mchitarjan , Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Sokratis . While the first two speak French, the Greek Papastathopoulos speaks Italian. On December 14, 2013 he accompanied Aubameyang to his appearance in the current sport studio . From 2014 he also looked after the Italian Ciro Immobile . In July 2015, his field of activity changed again when he moved to the Dortmund scouting department.
He has been Head of Integration and Support at FC Schalke 04 since the 2019/20 season .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Football: Massimo Mariotti , footballdatabase.eu
- ↑ Massimo Mariotti - player at MSV Duisburg , fussballdaten.de
- ↑ a b How Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan integration is made easier at BVB , derwesten.de
- ^ Trainer profile - Massimo Mariotti , transfermarkt.ch
- ↑ Mendener Massimo Mariotti changes to the BVB scouting department , wa.de
- ↑ Mendener Massimo at FC Schalke 04
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mariotti, Massimo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss football player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biel / Bienne , Switzerland |