Roberto Di Matteo

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Roberto Di Matteo
Roberto Di Matteo S04 2015 (cropped) .jpg
Roberto Di Matteo (2015)
Personnel
birthday May 29, 1970
place of birth Schaffhausen ,  Switzerland
size 178 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1976-1988 FC Schaffhausen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1991 FC Schaffhausen 50 0(2)
1991-1992 FC Zurich 34 0(6)
1992-1993 FC Aarau 33 0(1)
1993-1996 Lazio Rome 88 0(7)
1996-2002 Chelsea FC 119 (15)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-1998 Italy 34 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2008-2009 Milton Keynes Dons
2009-2011 West Bromwich Albion
2011–2012 Chelsea FC (assistant coach)
2012 Chelsea FC
2014-2015 FC Schalke 04
2016 Aston Villa
1 Only league games are given.

Roberto Di Matteo (born May 29, 1970 in Schaffhausen , Switzerland ) is a former Italian soccer player and today's soccer coach . As a player, he was initially active in his country of birth, Switzerland, from 1988 to 1993 and won the championship with FC Aarau in 1993 . After three years with Lazio , he played for Chelsea from 1996 to 2002 , with whom he won the FA Cup twice and was the 1998 European Cup Winner.

In 2008 Di Matteo began a career as a coach in England , initially below the Premier League , and eventually returned to Chelsea in 2011. In March 2012, the previous assistant coach became temporarily head coach of Chelsea FC and, within three months, led him to the greatest triumph in the club's history to date, winning the UEFA Champions League . From October 2014 to May 2015 Di Matteo was head coach of FC Schalke 04 , later he coached Aston Villa for a short time .

Origin and years of youth

Roberto Di Matteo grew up as the child of Italian guest workers in Schaffhausen, Switzerland . The father worked as a crane operator, the mother was a housewife. Di Matteo, who has a blind sister, went to school in Schaffhausen and already stood out as an excellent player and strategic thinker in the school soccer team Speedy Gonzalez and then in the juniors of FC Schaffhausen .

Player career

Clubs in Switzerland and Lazio

At the age of 18, Di Matteo received a professional contract with FC Schaffhausen, where he a. a. played together with Jogi Löw . After a year he moved to FC Zurich and another year later to FC Aarau, who was coached by Rolf Fringer . Fringer, who himself played with Di Matteo in Schaffhausen, retrained him from midfielder to central defender and libero . Di Matteo won the Swiss championship with Aarau. Because of these successes, foreign clubs became aware of him, and after a season in Aarau, he moved to Serie A at Lazio Rome in 1993 for around EUR 1.7 million , where he a. a. met Thomas Doll and Paul Gascoigne . At Lazio he played 87 games by 1996.

Chelsea FC

The midfielder had his most successful time with English club Chelsea , to which he moved in 1996 for 5.5 million. First he was trained by Ruud Gullit , the next few years by the Italians Gianluca Vialli (1998-2000) and Claudio Ranieri . He won the FA Cup twice with Chelsea , the League Cup in 1998 and the European Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in the same year . Di Matteo played 175 games for the Londoners and scored 26 goals in that time.

After a serious leg injury in September 2000 in the UEFA Cup game against FC St. Gallen , he ended his playing career in February 2002. He then worked as a football expert for television stations in Switzerland and England and acquired several coaching licenses.

National team

Di Matteo wore the jersey of the Italian national team 34 times between November 1994 and June 1998 . Here he scored two goals. Di Matteo played with Italy at the 1996 European Football Championship in England and at the 1998 World Cup in France.

Success as a player

FC Aarau

Chelsea FC

Coaching career

West Bromwich Albion

In August 2008, Di Matteo was coached by Milton Keynes Dons , an English club that played in the third highest division in England. After an overall positive season, almost a promotion to the second-rate Football League Championship , he left the club for West Midlands to West Bromwich Albion . There he signed for a year and rose in his first season by second place in the Football League Championship behind Newcastle United directly in the Premier League. After a promising start to the season (including election to coach of the month in September 2010), he was dismissed on February 6, 2011 after just one win in ten games.

Chelsea FC

For the 2011/12 season he was assistant to André Villas-Boas at Chelsea FC. After Villas-Boas' dismissal on March 4, 2012, he was promoted to head coach of Chelsea FC until the end of the season. He and his team won the FA Cup and the Champions League against FC Bayern Munich ; Chelsea almost eliminated in the last sixteen under Villas-Boas.

After this successful period as an interim coach, Di Matteo signed a new two-year contract with Chelsea in June 2012. After a 3-0 defeat at Juventus Turin in the group stage of the Champions League , which meant the first elimination in the preliminary round for a defending champion (with a record number of points for it), he was dismissed on November 21, 2012. His successor was Rafael Benítez . Less than a month later, he was voted Swiss Coach of the Year .

FC Schalke 04

On October 7, 2014, Di Matteo succeeded Jens Keller, who had previously been on leave, as head coach of FC Schalke 04 . He received a contract that ran until June 30, 2017. Three days after the last matchday of the season , which the club finished in sixth place, Di Matteo resigned on May 26, 2015.

Aston Villa

On June 3, 2016, the English club Aston Villa , who had been relegated from the Premier League in the 2015/16 season , announced the commitment of di Matteo. On October 3, 2016, he was released there after he and his team were ranked 19th out of 24 places in the second division with just one win after eleven match days .

Success as a trainer

West Bromwich Albion

Chelsea FC

Personal awards as a trainer

Others

  • Although Roberto Di Matteo was born and raised in Switzerland, he has not yet been naturalized in Switzerland (as of May 2012).
  • After his playing career, Di Matteo obtained a degree in business administration in Switzerland and completed another business administration course at the European School of Economics in London.
  • Di Matteo speaks six languages ​​fluently, including German, Italian and English.
  • In 1997 he scored the fastest goal in the history of the final against Middlesbrough in the FA Cup final.
  • In 2000 he scored the last goal at the old Wembley Stadium in a cup final.
  • In 2008 he was a regular studio guest in the EM studio on Swiss television .
  • He and his English partner have three children, all of whom were born in England.

Web links

Commons : Roberto Di Matteo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Roberto Di Matteo fights for his second career Focus online, May 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ Unter den Pappeln auf der Breite NZZ Online , May 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Sport, image no. 42 from October 15, 2014, p. 18
  4. ↑ Di Matteo relieved of duties ( Memento of the original dated February 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. www.wba.co.uk @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wba.co.uk
  5. ↑ A Swiss guy pulls the strings at Chelsea (www.tagesanzeiger.ch)
  6. ↑ Match Report: Bayern Munich 1 Chelsea 1 (3-4 on pens) ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (www.chelseafc.com) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chelseafc.com
  7. ↑ Di Matteo extends Spiegel online as Chelsea coach , June 13, 2012, accessed on November 28, 2012.
  8. ↑ Statement on Roberto Di Matteo ( Memento of the original dated November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. chelseafc.com, accessed November 21, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chelseafc.com
  9. ↑ S04 separates from Jens Keller - Roberto Di Matteo takes over schalke04.de, accessed on October 8, 2014.
  10. ↑ Roberto Di Matteo resigns as coach of FC Schalke 04 FC Schalke 04, accessed on May 26, 2015.
  11. ↑ Schalke confirms separation from Di Matteo Spiegel Online, May 26, 2015.
  12. ↑ Club statement: Roberto Di Matteo named as new Villa manager ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. avfc.co.uk, June 3, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.avfc.co.uk
  13. ^ Club statement: Roberto Di Matteo. In: www.avfc.co.uk. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  14. ↑ According to the article Politics wants to honor Di Matteo in: Schaffhauser Nachrichten , May 23, 2012, Brigitte Oechslin, President of the Schaffhausen Citizens' Council responsible for naturalization, stated in the context of considerations about conferring honorary citizenship on Di Matteo that this was with a regular citizenship. But he is an Italian citizen. "For an honorary citizenship, Di Matteo would have to be naturalized first."
  15. ↑ On the other hand, some Swiss media write of dual citizenship (examples: 1 , 2 , 3 )
  16. ↑ Schalke: First secret meeting with Di Matteo? spox.com, December 19, 2012, accessed December 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Di Matteo, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen , Switzerland