Domenico Di Carlo

Di Carlo as manager of Sampdoria

Domenico Di Carlo called Mimmo ( born March 23, 1964 in Cassino, Italy ) is a retired Italian footballer and current coach. He played for Vicenza Calcio Lecce, among other things, U.S. Palermo and U.S. trained and so far the AC Mantova, Parma FC, ​​Sampdoria and in two tenures AC Chievo Verona.

Playing career

As a player Domenico Ci Carlo was active for several clubs. The longest time he played in the jersey of Vicenza Calcio, which he wore for nine years from 1990 to 1999. In Vicenza, he was also the most successful, he won with the Biancorossi in the 1996/97 season under coach Francesco Guidolin, now the coach of Udinese Calcio, the Coppa Italia in the final against Napoli. After the first leg at the Stadio San Paolo in Naples lost 0-1, Vicenza achieved a 3-0 win after extra time, which had the Cup victory resulted in the Stadio Romeo Menti. By winning the Coppa Italia played Domenico Di Carlo with Vicenza Calcio in the following season in the Europa Cup Winners' Cup, where you from Ukraine and Roda JC Kerkrade in the Netherlands reached the semifinals after beating Legia Warsaw of Poland, Shakhtar Donetsk, but there the failed Chelsea FC of England, against the German representatives VfB Stuttgart won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1997/98 a little later.

In league play was quite successful Domenico Di Carlo with Vicenza Calcio. He managed the club to jump from the third-tier Serie C1 to Serie A and achieved three times in the first division in the league, before you had to go back in the 1998/99 season. Until that time, Di Carlo had made 268 league appearances for Vicenza Calcio while achieving nine goals in the first, second and third Italian football league. After relegation in 1999, he left and went to the U.S. Lecce Vicenza, where it was used only sporadically and soon moved to Livorno to the local third division side AS Livorno, where he played one year and then his career trailed off at FC Südtirol.

Coaching career

After the end of his career as an active football player was Domenico Di Carlo first youth coach of his old club Vicenza Calcio. The Primavera team from Vicenza Calcio he coached von 2001 to 2003. In the latter year he signed a contract with the fourth division team AC Mantova, he fought once in his first season as coach in charge of the Serie C1. This was achieved through a first place in the Serie C2 2003/ 04 Girona A with one point ahead of the U.S. Cremonese. Together with Cremonese managed Mantova in the following third league season to exercise direct march from the fourth to the second division. After finishing second behind Cremona, graduated to the play-offs for promotion with success, won against Frosinone Calcio and AC Pavia and eventually rose in 32 years to the B series. In its third year under coach Domenico Di Carlo put the AC Mantova his winning streak continued and finished after all the game day in fourth place in Serie B 2005/ 06, until the rise Playoffs you failed in the final at FC Turin only due to the fact that the tournament in the final table were a place better than Mantua and thus in a draw - it was after return match 5:5 - progressed, and thus missing out on promotion only just. Could not play at the top of the AC Mantova in Serie B 2006/ 07, which is considered probably best-manned second league season ever ( played with Juventus, SSC Napoli, the Genoa, the Bologna FC and Hellas Verona five former Italian champions second class ), one was eighth.

After the end of the season 2006/ 07 Domenico Di Carlo left the AC Mantova and became the new coach of Parma FC. With the three -time European champions it ran for Di Carlo but less good and you played against relegation. When the results of the Parma team deteriorated in early 2008, dismissed the club leadership coach Domenico Di Carlo on the ninth of March 2008 after a 1-2 defeat against Sampdoria. But Di Carlos successor in Parma, the Argentinian Héctor Cúper, could not prevent the initial descent of the club from Serie A. After half a year without a job Domenico Di Carlo was on the fourth of November, 2008 successor to the dismissed Giuseppe Iachini new coach of Chievo Verona, which he described as climbers started the season before the descent preserved and at the end of the Serie A 2008/ 09 the sixteenth standings occupied. Two places above ranked Chievo after the following season, where you put the fifth- best defense in the entire Serie A, but also the second worst attack with only 37 goals this season in 38 games. However, the league with nine points clear at first relegated Atalanta was managed safely.

In summer 2010, the paths of Chievo Verona and Domenico Di Carlo parted. He signed a contract with Sampdoria. With last year's Fourth he started in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League 2010/ 11, but lost to the German representatives Werder Bremen. Nevertheless, it was entitled to start for the Europa League, but where did that leaving already in the group stage third behind PSV Eindhoven from the Netherlands Metalist Kharkiv and Ukraine as well as from the front of the Hungarian representative VSC Debrecen. In league play Sampdoria played under Di Carlo a bad season. After the first round has been completed passable, was the club's management in the winter transfer window the two top strikers Antonio Cassano and Giampaolo Pazzini to AC Milan or Inter Milan to see what led to deteriorating performance and slipping into the relegation regions. On the seventh of March 2011 Sampdoria separated by Domenico Di Carlo after a 2:3 defeat to relegation-threatened Cesena and nominated Alberto Cavasin as the new coach. But even this could not prevent the descent of Sampdoria.

For the season 2011/12 Domenico Di Carlo was presented for the second time as coach of AC Chievo Verona and heir Stefano Pioli, who moved to the U.S. Palermo. In his first season back in Verona Di Carlo Chievo resulted in the final accounts to tenth place and therefore to secure relegation. At the beginning of the season 2012/13 it was not so much good for the Northern Italians. After an initial 2-0 win against FC Bologna followed five defeats in a row. Two days after a 1:4 defeat at the ends also is located in the basement table Palermo Domenico Di Carlo was released at Chievo Verona. He was succeeded by Eugenio Corini, once players at Chievo, when the club enjoyed its most successful years under coach Delneri.

During the winter break of the 2013/14 season he became the new manager of AS Livorno.

Achievements

  • Italian Cup Winners: 1x
  • Serie C2: 2x
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