Andrea Stramaccioni

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Andrea Stramaccioni
Stramaccioni in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1976-01-09) 9 January 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth Rome, Italy
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1995
Bologna
 0 (0)
Managerial career
2012–2013 Inter Milan
2014–2015 Udinese
2015–2016 Panathinaikos
2017–2018 Sparta Prague
2019 Esteghlal
2021–2022 Al Gharafa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Andrea Stramaccioni (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa stramatˈtʃoːni]; born 9 January 1976) is an Italian football manager and former player who last managed Qatari club Al Gharafa.

A football coach with experiences as a youth coach of

Roma and Inter Milan, he was put in charge of first team duties on 26 March 2012 to replace Claudio Ranieri. He is also a 2010 law graduate.[1]

Playing career

A former

Bologna in the 1994–95 season.[1]

Coaching career

Early years

He graduated in law at La Sapienza University of Rome, the largest Italian university. After retiring as a footballer, Stramaccioni went on to become a football coach for a number of amateur youth teams. At the age of 25, he won a provincial title with Rome-based youth team Az Sport, then being hired by Romulea where he worked until 2005.[1] Stramaccioni obtained the licence for youth coaches in 2003.[2]

Youth coach at Roma

In 2005, Stramaccioni joined the youth coaching staff at

UEFA Pro Licence (Italy first category licence), he could only work as a care-taker in the first and second division of Italy. On that day, Roberto Samaden, Inter youth academy director since 2006,[5][6]
also obtained the same licence. Samaden met Stramaccioni in the course and gave Stramaccioni a job in Inter two years later.

Inter Milan Primavera

After the departure of

Matchroom Stadium. The match finished in a 1–1 draw and Inter beat Ajax 5–3 in the resulting penalty shoot-out.[9]

Inter Milan

Stramaccioni with Inter in 2012.

On 26 March 2012, Inter manager

Juventus, claiming "[The] result will send a signal, as we came here to the Juventus Stadium against a team unbeaten in 49 rounds and attacked them with a trident". After 14 months in charge of Inter and a difficult 2012–13 Serie A campaign which saw them finish in 9th place and thus fail to qualify for Europe for the first time in 15 seasons, the club announced on 24 May 2013 that Stramaccioni had been sacked and replaced by Walter Mazzarri.[13][14]

Udinese

On 4 June 2014, Stramaccioni was named as new head coach of Udinese.[15] On 1 June 2015, he stepped down as Udinese head coach after just one year (his contract expired at the end of the June).[16]

Panathinaikos

Andrea Stramaccioni during a Europa League qualifier in Stockholm, Sweden

On 8 November 2015, Stramaccioni was appointed as manager of Super League Greece club Panathinaikos, signing a one-and-a-half-year deal until the end of the 2016–17 season.

The start of Panathinaikos' 2016-17 campaign in all competitions proved far beyond the fans' expectations, as it was characterized by a poor run of results, including defeats to

OFI, chairman Giannis Alafouzos decided to terminate Stramaccioni's contract with the club on 1 December 2016,[18] replacing him later that day with Marinos Ouzounidis.[19]

Sparta Prague

On 28 May 2017, he joined Czech club Sparta Prague, signing a two-year contract.[20] With Stramaccioni came his whole team of co-workers from previous clubs consisting of five nationalities.[21] In July 2017, the club was eliminated in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League after losing both matches against Red Star Belgrade (0-2 away and 0–1 at home).[22] Three months later, Sparta were eliminated in the fourth round of the Czech Cup after losing at home (2–2 (aet) 2–4 (pen)) against Baník Ostrava.[23] On 6 March 2018, Stramaccioni was sacked as the head coach of Sparta following "a disappointing start to the second part of the season and overall bad results this season".[24]

Esteghlal

Stramaccioni with Esteghlal scarf in June 2019

On 13 June 2019, Stramaccioni was appointed as coach of Iranian club

Reza Karimi were not part of his plans for the coming season.[27][28] Instead, he requested to sign two former Serie A players, Cheick Diabaté and Hrvoje Milić.[29][30]

Stramaccioni lost his first competitive game as Esteghlal's coach against Machine Sazi.[31] On 28 December his team beat Tractor 4–2; with this victory, Esteghlal became the first team to reach over a total of 1000 points in all-time Persian Gulf Pro League table.[32] On 8 December, Stramaccioni resigned as the manager of Esteghlal as the club failed to pay the wages of coaching staff due to the restrictions for transferring money outside Iran caused by the sanctions;[33] however he did not close the door for a possible return to the club if the problems are solved.[34] Following his departure, many Esteghlal fans protested in front of the offices of Iran's Ministry of Sport and Youth which own the club in order to express their disagreements with the club's board of management and Stramaccioni's departure.[35] On 2 January 2020, the club officially announced his departure from Esteghlal and the negotiations for his return were unsuccessful.[36]

Then he started charging Esteghlal for his financial claims causing that team not to be able to take part in the AFC Asian Cup.

Al Gharafa

In July 2021, Stramaccioni took charge of Al Gharafa.[37] On 31 October 2022, he was dismissed by Al Gharafa.[38]

Personal life

He is married to Dalila, an Instagram influencer, since 2011;[39] they have four children together, the last one born in 2022 in Doha.[40]

As an expert of international and Qatari football, Stramaccioni was hired by RAI as a color commentator for the 2022 FIFA World Cup;[41] his first commentary, for the Argentina vs Saudi Arabia game, gained extensive coverage throughout social media for its intensity.[42]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 7 September 2021
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Inter Milan 26 March 2012 24 May 2013 65 31 11 23 047.69
Udinese 4 June 2014 30 June 2015 41 12 12 17 029.27
Panathinaikos 9 November 2015 1 December 2016 52 22 14 16 042.31
Sparta Prague 28 May 2017 6 March 2018 23 10 7 6 043.48
Esteghlal 13 June 2019 8 December 2019 15 9 4 2 060.00
Al-Gharafa 2 July 2021 31 October 2022 53 21 12 20 039.62
Total 275 115 71 89 041.82

Honours

Managerial

Inter Milan

  • 2011–12

References

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  32. ^ Alishah, Mahdi (1 November 2019). نکته آماری؛ استقلال به اولین تیم در تاریخ لیگ برتر تبدیل شد که 1000 امتیاز یا بیشتر کسب کرده است [Esteghlal is the first team to reach over a total of 1000 points in all-time Persian Gulf Pro League table] (in Persian). Tarafdari. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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  35. ^ "Stramaccioni, che caos: proteste di piazza a Teheran per lui". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 9 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  36. ^ "قطع و پایان همکاری استراماچونی با باشگاه استقلال" [End of Stramaccioni's collaboration with Esteghlal]. Esteghlal. 2 January 2020. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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  40. ^ "Fiocco rosa in casa Stramaccioni" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport - Stadio. 31 August 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  41. ^ "Da Adani a Marchisio e Stramaccioni, la squadra Rai per i Mondiali in Qatar" (in Italian). Calcio e Finanza. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
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