Davide Nicola
Nicola at AS Livorno
Davide Nicola ( born March 5, 1973 in Luserna San Giovanni, Italy ) is a retired Italian footballer and current coach.
As a player, among other things, for the CFC Genoa, Ternana Calcio and AC Siena active, he began his coaching career at AC Lumezzane and currently manages AS Livorno in Serie A, after he had done with the club return to the excellence.
Playing career
Nicola Davide started his footballing career at Genoa, where he had previously been through the youth departments. His debut for Genoa he was in the 1992/93 season under coach Luigi Maifredi. But soon afterwards, Nicola, who was at home on the position of a defender, was borrowed for the first time to another club. Thus he spent the season 1993/94 with Fidelis Andria in Serie B, where Nicola was used in 26 league games and reaching the ninth tablespace until today the best placement Andrias in Serie B, helped. A return to Genoa there were then only for a short time, with Ancona Calcio another lending for the 1994/95 season has been agreed. Ancona was sixth in Serie B and Davide Nicola came in 27 games for use, before he returned to Genoa and then stayed with the CFC also to 1998. Nicola became the regulars at the now permanently abgeglittenen to Serie B more time Italian champion. The climb did not succeed until 2002 again. In the meantime, graduated Davide Nicola not only 166 league games with four goals for Genoa, but won with the then second division also the English- Italian Cup 1995/96 against Port Vale. In the season 1998/99 he was also loaned to Pescara Calcio, and missed only one point promotion to the Serie A.
2002 Davide Nicola left the Genoa and moved for two years to Ternana Calcio, where each placement in the upper middle of the series B were achieved in the 2003/04 season we failed by only four points on the return to excellence. 2004/ 05 Nicola played for a short time at AC Siena in Serie A, where his breakthrough did not succeed and he was no ordinary power. Siena was the fourteenth in the series A and Davide Nicola joined the following season to the second division FC Turin. With Torino defender managed in third place in Serie B 2005/ 06 according won playoff games against AC Cesena and AC Mantova promotion to the highest Italian league, the club returned again had his back to a year for the second division Movers Spezia Calcio to change. Here, the league was not until after they had prevailed in playout games against former champion Hellas Verona. The result playtime spent Nicola at Ravenna Calcio, with whom he descended from the B series. He then played two years at AC Lumezzane in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, before he ended his footballing career in 2010 at the age of 37 years.
Coaching career
In Lumezzane Davide Nicola began in the same year his coaching career and moved directly from the field to the bench. For two years, Nicola led the fortunes of the AC Lumezzane and reached the small club good rankings in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione, qualifying for the playoff games to the second division promotion was achieved in two seasons by only a few points. Nicolas success with Lumezzane remained higher class clubs not hidden and so the young coach was taken in the summer of 2012 from AS Livorno under contract to the successor of Attilio Perotti, under whose auspices the club was in acute Abstiegsnot and compared to only one point FC Empoli before the playout games against Vicenza Calcio saved.
Quite different was the for AS Livorno in Serie B 2012/13. You convinced, with considerable offensive football, had the second-best offensive behind champion U.S. Sassuolo Calcio, and finished by the end of all days play the third place in the standings behind Sassuolo and Hellas Verona, what legitimate to participate in the play-offs for promotion. In the semifinals, there was only one win against Brescia Calcio, with only the better placement in the correct table decisive for advancement was because it was tied at the back and leg. A few days later Livorno met in the final game of the playoffs against FC Empoli, where you could prevail with 1:1 and 1:0, and thus was able to celebrate the return to Serie A after four years.
Achievements
As a player
- English- Italian Cup: 1x
- Promotion to Serie A: 1x
As a coach
- Promotion to Serie A: 1x