Luigi De Canio

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Luigi De Canio
Personal information
Full name Luigi De Canio[1]
Date of birth (1957-09-26) 26 September 1957 (age 66)
Place of birth Matera, Italy
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Position(s) Full-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1975–1977
Matera
 46 (0)
1977–1978
Brindisi
 32 (1)
1978–1979
Matera
 32 (0)
1979–1981
Chieti
 61 (0)
1981
Salernitana
 3 (0)
1981–1986
Matera
 141 (2)
1986
Livorno
 5 (1)
1986–1987 Galatina Pro Italia 8 (0)
1987–1989 Pisticci
Managerial career
1988–1993 Pisticci
1993–1995
Savoia
1995–1996
Siena
1996–1997
Carpi
1997–1998
Lucchese
1998–1999
Pescara
1999–2001 Udinese
2001–2002
Napoli
2002–2003
Reggina
2003–2004
Genoa
2005–2006
Siena
2007–2008 Queens Park Rangers
2009–2011
Lecce
2012
Genoa
2013–2014
Catania
2016 Udinese
2018–2019 Ternana
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Luigi De Canio (born 26 September 1957) is an Italian football manager and a former player who played as a full-back.

Career

Player

De Canio, a

Genoa.[3]
He retired in 1989 with amateur team Pisticci, of which he successively became head coach.

Coach

De Canio started his coaching career in 1988 with

Pescara
, where he narrowly missed a surprising promotion to the top flight.

De Canio took charge of a Pescara side that had slumped to 13th place in 1997–98 and lost two of its opening three matches in 1998–99. He guided i biancoazzuri to 63 points, finishing fifth, just one point from fourth, and only missed out on promotion due to the incredible, much-discussed victory of Reggina at Torino on the last day of the season (13 June 1999), which was called a few minutes early due to a pitch invasion.[5] Following his departure from Pescara, it finished 13th again the next season.

His impressive coaching performance with Pescara caused interest by

Parma and his replacement with Luciano Spalletti, who managed to save the club from relegation.[6][7]

In 2001–02, De Canio was appointed as

Siena, a team which he already coached some years earlier, to replace Luigi Simoni
, leading his side to escape relegation for two consecutive seasons.

Queens Park Rangers

De Canio was announced as first team coach of English

his period in charge of the club, De Canio became a very popular figure among the QPR faithful, due to the style and flair he brought back to their game. As a result, he was, along with the club's owners, immortalised in the supporters' song "Gigi De Canio, Bernie and Flavio" (to the tune of La donna è mobile).[10]

De Canio left the club by "mutual consent" after the end of the season in May 2008, having guided them to fourteenth place in the Championship.[11] His record at the club comprised 12 wins, 12 losses and 11 draws in 35 games. It has reported that his return to Italy was partly due to a bid to save his marriage.[12]

Back to Italy

On 9 March 2009 De Canio signed a contract to become head coach of

Lecce, replacing Mario Beretta at the helm of the salentini,[13] but did not manage to save the side from relegation. On 31 May 2009 US Lecce announced De Canio had refused to extend his contract with the club; however, on 6 June the club officially confirmed to have reached an agreement with the former QPR manager, who guided the giallorossi back to the top flight, as league runners-up, in their 2009–10 Serie B campaign.[14] He was sacked on 22 May 2011 as Lecce finished 17th at the end of the 2010–11 season
.

On 22 April 2012 he was hired again as Genoa head coach, in a desperate attempt to save the team from relegation,[15] until 22 October 2012 when he was sacked.

On 20 October 2013, De Canio returned into management as he accepted to take over from

Catania.[16]

On 15 March 2016, he was appointed manager of Udinese.[17] He was let go at the end of the season on 19 May.[18]

On 21 February 2018, he was appointed manager of Serie B club Ternana.[19]

In April 2018 he was one of 77 applicants for the vacant Cameroon national team job.[20]

He was fired by Ternana on 19 January 2019.[21]

Managerial statistics

As of 19 January 2019
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Pisticci Italy 1 July 1988 30 June 1993 168 76 57 35 231 143 +88 045.24
Savoia
 Italy 6 December 1993 28 June 1995 61 21 29 11 61 49 +12 034.43
Siena
 Italy 28 June 1995 28 May 1996 42 15 13 14 51 43 +8 035.71
Carpi
 Italy 28 May 1996 20 June 1997 45 19 13 13 58 36 +22 042.22
Lucchese
 Italy 20 June 1997 16 June 1998 40 11 12 17 37 52 −15 027.50
Pescara
 Italy 21 September 1998 30 June 1999 35 17 9 9 48 37 +11 048.57
Udinese Italy 1 July 1999 19 March 2001 83 38 15 30 128 110 +18 045.78
Napoli
 Italy 29 June 2001 4 June 2002 41 17 13 11 52 45 +7 041.46
Reggina
 Italy 8 November 2002 5 June 2003 30 11 7 12 35 42 −7 036.67
Genoa
 Italy 21 September 2003 14 June 2004 43 13 16 14 57 57 +0 030.23
Siena
 Italy 10 January 2005 22 May 2006 62 17 21 24 76 99 −23 027.42
Queens Park Rangers England 29 October 2007 8 May 2008 35 12 11 12 50 46 +4 034.29
Lecce
 Italy 9 March 2009 1 June 2011 95 34 27 34 137 149 −12 035.79
Genoa
 Italy 23 April 2012 22 October 2012 14 4 4 6 17 20 −3 028.57
Catania
 Italy 20 October 2013 16 January 2014 12 2 2 8 8 25 −17 016.67
Udinese Italy 14 March 2016 19 May 2016 9 2 3 4 10 16 −6 022.22
Ternana Italy 21 February 2018 19 January 2019 38 13 10 15 54 50 +4 034.21
Career total 853 322 262 269 1,110 1,019 +91 037.75

Name spelling

Some sections of the media, particularly the English language media commonly misspell his surname as Di Canio, instead of the correct De Canio.[22]

References

  1. ^ "Comunicato Ufficiale N. 135" [Official Press Release No. 135] (PDF) (in Italian). Lega Serie A. 14 February 2011. p. 6. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Luigi De Canio". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Tabellini Genoa 1979–80" (in Italian). Akaiaoi. Archived from the original on 21 December 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2007.
  4. ^ "Accidental heroes". Football Italia. Archived from the original on 3 July 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2007.
  5. ^ "Se non siete di Reggio Calabria non sapete cosa vi perdete". Francesco Biacca. 16 January 2006.
  6. ^ a b "LA SOCIETA' BIANCONERA MODELLO ISPIRATORE" (in Italian). Udinese Calcio. Archived from the original on 12 August 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2007.
  7. ^ "De Canio esonerato" (in Italian). RAI Sport. 19 March 2001. Archived from the original on 8 January 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2007.
  8. ^ "Former Napoli boss takes QPR role". BBC News. 29 October 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2007.
  9. ^ "QPR 2–0 Hull". BBC Sport. 3 November 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
  10. ^ "Changes are vital for QPR". London: Daily Telegraph blog. 7 May 2008. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
  11. ^ "De Canio parts company with QPR". BBC News. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  12. ^ "Di Canio set for return". London Informer. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
  13. ^ "Luigi De Canio è il nuovo allenatore" (in Italian). US Lecce. 9 March 2009. Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
  14. ^ "De Canio nuovo tecnico Lecce" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport – Stadio. 6 June 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2009. [permanent dead link]
  15. ^ "Incubo Genoa/ Malesani nuovamente esonerato. Squadra a Gigi De Canio". Città di Genova. 22 April 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  16. ^ "Rolando Maran sollevato dall'incarico. Luigi De Canio è il nuovo allenatore della prima squadra" [Rolando Maran dismissed from managerial role. Luigi De Canio is the new first team head coach] (in Italian). Calcio Catania. 20 October 2013. Archived from the original on 25 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  17. ^ "Web Server's Default Page".
  18. ^ "Official: Udinese appoint Iachini | Football Italia". Archived from the original on 27 May 2016.
  19. ^ "Luigi De Canio è il nuovo allenatore, domani la presentazione ufficiale" (in Italian). Ternana Calcio. 21 February 2018.
  20. ^ Oluwashina Okeleji (23 April 2018). "77 applicants for vacant Cameroon coaching position". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  21. ^ "Esonerato Luigi De Canio, ulteriori comunicazioni nelle prossime ore" (Press release) (in Italian). Ternana. 19 January 2019.
  22. ^ "Sporting digest: Football". The London Independent. 25 October 2007. Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2007.

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