Marco Branca

Marco Branca ( born January 6, 1965 in Grosseto ) is an Italian former football player and sports official.

Career as a player

Club career

Marco Branca started his playing career with the U.S. Grosseto in the Italian fourth division, arrived there, however, at no league use. He then moved to Cagliari Calcio, a club that was playing in Serie A. There he remained for four seasons, but was used only in his third year in the B series. The next years were spent Branca at various Italian clubs, which mainly played in the highest Italian league.

Towards the end of his career moved Branca to England for Middlesbrough FC, where it was used both in the First Division and in the Premier League. After he was also still accrued for FC Lucerne in the Swiss National League, he made his career at AC Monza in Serie B finish.

The most successful season for Branca was the 1995/96 season, when he was able to achieve a total of 19 league goals for AS Roma and Inter Milan. In the season 1994/95 he was also, together with Fabrizio Ravanelli scorer of the Italian Cup ( six hits).

National

Branca took part with the Italian selection at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. While there, he scored all four goals of his team, but could not prevent the Italian selection already failed in the group stage.

Title

  • UEFA Cup: 1994/95, 1997/98
  • Italian Championship: 1990/91
  • Italian Cup: 1987/88

Career as a functionary

After his career as a football player Branca in 2002 functionary at Inter Milan, where he served as technical director was responsible for player transfers since 2003. Under Branca undertook Inter player Dejan Stankovic, Esteban Cambiasso, Julio Cesar, Samuel, Maicon, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Wesley Sneijder, Diego Milito and Samuel Eto'o. But millionaire flops like Mancini and Ricardo Quaresma were hired under Branca.

On 8 February 2014, the working relationship between Branca and Inter Milan officially ended. Club President Erick Thohir, who had taken over the club a few months earlier, so that drew lessons from the disappointing results of the Milan in the season 2013/14.

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