Luciano Spalletti

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Luciano Spalletti
Personal information
Date of birth	March 7, 1959 (1959-03-07) (age 50)
Place of birth	Certaldo, Italy
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Roma
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1978–1986 1986–1990 1990–1991 1991–1993	Entella Spezia Viareggio Empoli	27 (2) 120 (7) 29 (1) 53 (3)
Teams managed
1994 1994–1995 1995–1998 1998–1999 1999–2000 2001 2001–2002 2002–2005 2005–	Empoli (caretaker) Empoli Youth Empoli Sampdoria Venezia Udinese Ancona Udinese Roma
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Luciano Spalletti (born 7 March 1959) is an Italian football coach who currently manages AS Roma in the Italian Serie A.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 2.1 Early career 2.2 Roma 2.2.1 2005-06 season 2.2.2 2006-07 season 2.2.3 2007-08 season 2.2.4 2008-09 season

[edit] Playing career

Spalletti was born in Certaldo, near Florence, and played for Serie C teams such as Empoli and Spezia.

[edit] Coaching career

[edit] Early career

Spalletti's early career in management led him to struggling Empoli, where he lead the Tuscan side to two consecutive promotions from Serie C1 to Serie A. However, it was at Udinese where he really began to make an impact as a manager. During the 2004-05 season, Spalletti guided Udinese to a sensational fourth-placed finish in Serie A, exceeding expectations and securing a spot in the UEFA Champions League.

[edit] Roma

Such success for a traditionally unexceptional side with limited resources attracted the attention of Roma. The capital side had come off a disappointing season, in which four different coaches had spells in charge of the club. Spalletti was offered the task of attempting to bring order to this chaotic side.

[edit] 2005-06 season

After an uninspiring first half of the 2005-2006 season, he changed the team's tactics to attacking rather than defensive, but starting playing without any real striker (with an attacking midfielder as striker). On 26 February 2006, Roma broke the Serie A record for consecutive wins (11) with a 2-0 victory over Lazio. However, by the end of the season, Roma failed to reach 4th place, therefore failing to qualify for the UEFA Champions League. Spalletti also took Roma into the Coppa Italia final against Inter during the 2005-2006 season but lost. However, Roma qualified for the 2006-2007 UEFA Champions League, since Juventus was relegated and Fiorentina and AC Milan received point deductions, all as a result of the Serie A match-fixing scandal.

Spalletti's favoured formation is the 4-2-3-1 system, where he uses 4 defenders, 2 defensive midfielders, 2 wingers (both sides of the 3), 1 attacking midfielder, and 1 striker (Francesco Totti, another attacking midfielder, or without any real striker). This system proved effective upon its introduction during the 2005-06 season for Roma. As a result, the team climbed the charts from 15th to 5th place by the end of the season. During that time, Roma also went on an 11-match winning streak.

[edit] 2006-07 season

At the end of 2006, Spalletti was elected Serie A Coach of the Year and, in the following months, led Roma until the Champions League quarter-final after a 2-0 victory over Olympique Lyonnais at the Stade Gerland in the first knockout round. In the quarter-final, despite a promising 2-1 win in the first leg, Roma crumbled incredibly to a 7-1 annihilation at the hands of Alex Ferguson's Manchester United.

The team, however, succeeded in becoming the first team to defeat Roberto Mancini's Internazionale in all competitions that year, emerging with a 1-3 result at the San Siro, a match that the Nerazzurri had to win to mathematically claim the 2007 Scudetto against the only credible rival they had in the championship.

Roma would also win the Coppa Italia against Inter, with an aggregate result of 7-4; a resounding 6-2 in the first leg in Rome and followed by a narrow 2-1 defeat in Milan. It was the first important trophy in Spalletti's career, who only had won a Coppa Italia di Serie C with Empoli. But he was yet to add another piece of silverware to his cabinet, as Roma would again defeat Inter 0-1 in Milan in the 2007-08 to steal their Supercoppa Italiana crown.

[edit] 2007-08 season

In the 2007-08 Champions League first knockout round, Spalletti's Roma team became the first Italian team to defeat Real Madrid over two legs (2-1 in both ties in Rome and Madrid) and consequently also became the first European side to record two victories over Real Madrid in their Santiago Bernabéu home ground. In a repeat of the previous season's quarter final, Roma were again eliminated from the Champions League by eventual winners Manchester United. They did, however, succeed in their defence of the Coppa Italia, once again defeating Scudetto winners Inter in the final — a single match which Roma won 2-1.

[edit] 2008-09 season

In the 2008-09 season, Spalletti faced the worst season of his four year tenure as manager for Roma. At the end of the season, the team qualified for the Europa League with a 6th-place position in the league.

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v • d • e Udinese Calcio – Managers King (1920–21) · Kanjaurek (1922–23) · Krappan (1923–XX) · Hlavay (1925–26) · Czeizler (1927–28) · Fögl (1928–29) · E. Payer (1929–30) · I. Payer (1930–31) · Fögl (1931–32) · Hermann (1934–36) · Fögl (1936–37) · Miconi (1938–40) · Piselli (1940–41) · Miconi (1941–42) · Molnár (1942–43) · Bellotto (1943–XX) · Olivieri (1952–53) · Bigogno (1953–58) · Bonizzoni (1960–62) · Segato (1963–64) · Tabanelli (1969–71) · Giacomini (1973) · Manente (1973–75) · Rosa (1975–76) · Orrico (1979–80) · Perani (1980) · Giagnoni (1980–81) · Ferrari (1981–84) · Luís Vinício (1984–86) · De Sisti (1986–87) · Milutinović (1987) · Sonetti (1987–89) · Mazzia (1989) · Marchesi (1989–90) · Fontana (1990) · Buffoni (1990–91) · Scoglio (1991–92) · Bigon (1992–93) · Vicini (1993–94) · Galeone (1994–95) · Zaccheroni (1995–98) · Guidolin (1998–99) · De Canio (1999–01) · Spalletti (2001) · Hodgson (2001) · Ventura (2001–02) · Spalletti (2002–05) · Cosmi (2005–06) · Dominissini (2006) · Galeone (2006–07) · Malesani (2007) · Marino (2007–)

v • d • e Serie A Coach of the Year – Managers Lippi (1997) · Lippi (1998) · Zaccheroni (1999) · Eriksson (2000) · Ancelotti (2001) · Del Neri (2002) · Lippi (2003) · Ancelotti (2004) · Capello (2005) · Spalletti (2006) · Spalletti (2007) · Prandelli (2008) ·

v • d • e A.S. Roma – Managers Garbutt (1927–29) · Baccani (1929–30) · Burgess (1930–32) · Barr (1932–3) · Kovács (1933–34) · Barbesino (1934–38) · Ara (1938–39) · Schaffer (1939–42) · Kertész (1942–43) · Masetti (1943–45) · Degni (1945–47) · Senkey (1947–48) · Brunella (1948–49) · Bernardini (1949–50) · Baloncieri (1950) · Serantoni (1950) · Masetti (1950–1951) · Viani (1951–1953) · Varglien (1953–54) · Carver (1954–56) · Sárosi (1956) · Masetti (1956–57) · Stock (1957–58) · Nordahl (1958–59) · Sárosi (1959–60) · Foni (1960–61) · Carniglia (1961–63) · Krieziu (1963) · Foni (1963–64) · Miró (1964–65) · Lorenzo (1965–66) · Pugliese (1966–68) · Herrera (1968–70) · Tessari (1970) · Herrera (1971–72) · Trebiciani (1972–73) · Liedholm (1973–77) · Giagnoni (1977–78) · Valcareggi (1978–79) · Liedholm (1979–84) · Eriksson (1984–86) · Sormani (1986–87) · Liedholm (1987–89) · Spinosi (1989) · Liedholm (1989) · Radice (1989–90) · Bianchi (1990–92) · Boškov (1992–93) · Mazzone (1993–96) · Bianchi (1996–97) · Liedholm & Sella (1997) · Zeman (1997–1999) · Capello (1999–2004) · Völler (2004) · Del Neri (2004–05) · Conti (2005) · Spalletti (2005–)

v • d • e A.S. Roma – current squad 3 Cicinho · 4 Juan · 5 Mexès · 7 Pizarro · 8 Aquilani · 9 Vučinić · 10 Totti (c) · 11 Taddei · 12 Pipolo · 13 Motta · 14 Filipe · 16 De Rossi · 17 Riise · 19 Júlio Baptista · 20 Perrotta · 22 Tonetto · 24 Menez · 25 Artur · 27 Júlio Sérgio · 32 Doni · 33 Brighi · 77 Cassetti · Coach: Spalletti