Massimo Morales
Massimo Morales 2013 in an interview
Massimo Morales ( born April 20, 1964 in Caserta ) is a former Italian football player and current coach.
Playing career
Massimo Morales was active as a player for Casertana.
Coaching career
Morales earned in Munich in 1991, the German B license, 1995 A bill. The Italians from 1992 to 1994 as a youth coach at Bayern Munich. From 1994 to 1995 Morales was an assistant with the first team under Giovanni Trapattoni. Morales coached from 1995 to 1996 the Ghanaian first division side King Faisal Babes. From 1996 to 1998 he was employed as a scout at AC Milan. Then the Italians working for the Ghanaian Football Federation, as an assistant with the national team and the U20.
In July 1999, Morales was an assistant coach Frans Thijssen to the Dutch Ehrendivisionär De Graafschap. As Thijssen resigned in late August took over on an interim basis Morales his office, was a month later superseded by Rob McDonald and was now his assistant. However, the two coaches were clearly not with each other, so that Morales left the club in November.
In 2000, Massimo Morales acquired the football coach license ( Diploma UEFA PRO ) in Coverciano, near Florence ( Italy). In the years 2000 to 2003 he coached back in his homeland. Potenza SC, Rondinella Calcio and FC Varese were the stages. From April 2001 to the end of season Morales coached the Swiss club AC Bellinzona.
In the season 2003/ 04 he celebrated with Fortuna Dusseldorf promotion to the Football Regional. In late November 2004, he was dismissed and replaced by Uwe Weidemann. 23 December 2005 to 31 March 2006 Morales was coach of SV Waldhof Mannheim, he supervised the team in only two competitive games.
In April 2008, Morales assistant coach with the Czech second division club FK Marila Pribram, shortly after he took over the post of the head coach, and in June 2008 he succeeded in becoming the first Czech league.
End of October 2009 he took over the coaching position at the Hungarian first division Honvéd Budapest. On 13 November 2010 he resigned after the defeat against its local rivals Újpest Budapest.
After his station in Budapest, he worked as a TV pundit for sports channel Sky and as a freelance journalist for, among others, the Gazzetta dello Sport. On April 7, 2013 he succeeded Gerd Dais as head coach of third division side Stuttgarter Kickers. On September 9, 2013 Morales was released from his coaching job at the Stuttgarter Kickers.