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Attilio Lombardo
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| Attillio Lombardo | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Attilio Lombardo | |
| Date of birth | January 6, 1966 | |
| Place of birth | Santa Maria la Fossa, Italy | |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in) | |
| Playing position | Manager (former Right winger) | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1983-1985 1985-1989 1989-1995 1995-1997 1997-1999 1999-2001 2001-2002 |
Pergocrema Cremonese Sampdoria Juventus Crystal Palace Lazio Sampdoria |
38 (9) 141 (17) 201 (34) 35 (2) 49 (8) 33 (2) 34 (1) |
| National team2 | ||
| 1990-1997 | Italy | 19 (3) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1998 2002-2006 2006-2007 |
Crystal Palace Sampdoria (youth team) FC Chiasso |
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Attilio Lombardo (born 6 January 1966 in Santa Maria la Fossa, in the Province of Caserta), is a retired football player turned manager.
Attilio started his career at Pergocrema, in Italy's Serie C2, in 1983, before moving up to Serie B side Cremonese, in 1985, where he made a name for himself, as a more-than-capable winger.
In 1989, he got his first taste of Serie A football, with Sampdoria. Playing alongside such players as Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini, Pietro Vierchowod, Gianluca Pagliuca, and under manager Vujadin Boskov, Attilio won several domestic trophies, picking up medals for the Coppa Italia (1991), the Cup Winners' Cup (1990), Serie A (1991), the Supercoppa Italiana (1991), and a second Coppa Italia win (1994).
In 1995, Attilio made a move to champions Juventus. Unfortunately, Attilio had problems with injuries during his two-year spell, but still picked up winner's medals for the UEFA Champions League (1996) (which was almost cetainly the greatest success of his career), the Intercontinental Cup (1996), and the European Super Cup (1996).
In 1997, Attilio was on the move again, joining Premiership new-boys Crystal Palace. Given that this was a much smaller club than Juve, he instantly became the star-player, and scored on his debut. In early 1998, Mark Goldberg assumed control of the club, and manager Steve Coppell moved to the Director of Football post. Attilio, along with Swedish international Tomas Brolin, was appointed as caretaker player-manager, for the rest of the season.
Attilio's season was curtailed by injury whilst with the Italian national squad in November (a recall came his way due to sparkling form with the Londoners). At the time of the injury Palace were 10th in the table, but by the time he came back to the first team, in April, they were bottom of the league. Palace were subsequently relegated to the First Division (now The Championship), even though Lombardo's return lead them to their only two home league wins of the season.
Despite relegation, Attilio decided to stay, regardless (although he was not given the managers' job; that went to Terry Venables). Towards the end of 1998, it became clear that chairman Goldberg was in financial difficulty, and the club would need to exponentially reduce the wage bill. In January 1999, Lombardo returned to Italy, with Lazio.
At Lazio, he resumed his streak of domestic and European cup competition victories, gaining second medals for the Cup Winners Cup (1999), Serie A (2000), the Supercoppa Italiana (2000), the Coppa Italia (2000), and the European Super Cup (1999).
In January 2001, Attilio left Lazio, to re-join Sampdoria, where he would finish his career, and go into coaching at the youth level. He stayed at Sampdoria until June 2006, when he left to become Head Coach of FC Chiasso.
During his career, Attilio gained 19 caps for the Italian national side, between 1990 and 1997, but did not gain much success, as such players as Roberto Donadoni, Gianluigi Lentini and Angelo Di Livio were often preferred to him.
In 2005, Attilio was voted into Palace's Centenary XI, despite having only made 49 appearances for the Eagles (far less than any of the other ten players, showing how highly Palace fans held The Bald Eagle).
In 2006, he was appointed manager of Swiss side FC Chiasso. He resigned in May 2007, citing lack of motivation.[1]
- ^ (Italian) Chiasso, Lombardo presenta le dimissioni
- (Italian) Fans' site
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