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What you need to know about the new head coach of “Zenith” Roberto Mancini. Roberto Mancini, new mentor of Zenith What did Mancini win

What you need to know about the new head coach of “Zenith” Roberto Mancini. Roberto Mancini, new mentor of Zenith What did Mancini win

/ Roger Goraczniak

On June 1, an Italian became the new head coach of Zenit St. Petersburg Roberto Mancini. He signed a three-year deal with an option to renew for another two seasons.

Mancini replaced the Romanian as head coach of the St. Petersburg club Mircea Lucescu, the contract with which was terminated on May 28. Under the leadership of the Romanian specialist, the club had one of the worst seasons in recent times. Zenit won the championship bronze, thus not getting into the Champions League, and showed their worst result in 12 years in the Europa League, being eliminated from the fight in the 1/16 finals.

Mancini previously played for Bologna, Sampdoria, Lazio and Leicester City. He became the champion of Italy, won the Cup and the Super Cup of the country, as well as the Cup Winners' Cup.

He made 36 appearances for Italy, scoring 4 goals. As a player, he won bronze medals at Euro 1988 and the 1990 World Cup.

Dossier

At the age of 16, he played in the main team of the Bologna club. On September 12, 1981, in his first season in professional football, he scored 9 goals.

In 1986 he played for the Italian youth team and took second place in the European Youth Championship.

Roberto Mancini (left), 1981 Photo: Public Domain

After Bologna, he moved to Sampdoria, where he made up the famous duet of attack with Gianluca Vialli, their bunch was nicknamed the "twins of the goal."

At Sampdoria, Mancini once won the Italian Championship (1991), won four Italian Cups, the Italian Super Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup (1990).

In 1997 he was recognized as the player of the year in Italy.

In the same year, he moved to the Lazio club, with which he won the national championship (2000), two Italian cups, the last ever Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup.

In January 2001, he signed a contract with the English club Leicester City, but spent only a month in the team, played 5 games and ended his playing career at the age of 36.

coaching career

Mancini began his coaching career while still a Lazio player, working as an assistant Sven Göran Ericsson.

In February 2001, he became the head coach of Fiorentina, with whom he managed to win the National Cup, but already in January 2002 he was fired from his post after the performances of fans dissatisfied with the results of the team.

In the summer of 2002, he returned to Lazio as the head coach of the club and achieved good results by winning the Italian Cup.

In 2004, he moved to the Internazionale club. In the first season, he won the Coppa Italia, but in other competitions the club did not perform so well. In the 2005/2006 season, the club won the Italian Super Cup in the confrontation with Juventus, but in the Champions League they flew out at the quarter-final stage, losing to the Spanish Villarreal.

At the beginning of the 2006/2007 season, the club won the Italian Super Cup for the second time in a row, but the Champions League failed again.

The 2007/2008 season began for Inter with a 0-1 defeat in the Italian Super Cup final by Roma. In the Champions League, he was defeated by Liverpool.

In total, Mancini three times during this time led Inter to the championship in Italy.

On May 29, 2008, he was sacked due to the club's repeated failures in the Champions League. After the termination of the contract, Inter paid Mancini an amount of 11 million euros.

On December 19, 2009, he headed the English club Manchester City, signing a contract for 3.5 years with a salary of 3.5 million euros per season.

At the end of the 2010/2011 season, Mancini won the FA Cup with the team.

On May 14, 2013, Manchester City officially announced the dismissal of Mancini as head coach. The reasons for the dismissal were unsatisfactory performance in the Champions League. Under Mancini's leadership, Manchester City never reached the knockout stages of the tournament.

Mancini's resignation cost City $11 million.

On September 30, 2013, he headed the Istanbul club Galatasaray. Under his leadership, the club won the Turkish Cup and made it to the playoffs of the Champions League, but in the championship it became only second, losing to Fenerbahce.

On November 14, 2014 he returned to Inter. In the first match in the Milan derby, he tied with Milan (1: 1). The following season, Inter managed to return to European competition, finishing 4th in Serie A, and also reached the semi-finals of the Italian Cup, but lost to Juventus in a two-legged confrontation.

Business

In 2008, he bought a five-star hotel on the island of Sardinia, which opened in 2009.

In 2008, he founded the Kifaru shipyard, which produces 12- and 19-meter luxury yachts.

Personal life

He is married to Federica Morelli and has a daughter, Camilla, and two sons, Filippo and Andrea.

Awards and achievements

As a player:

Italian Champion: 1991
Italian Cup winner: 1985, 1988, 1989, 1994
Italian Super Cup Winner: 1991
Winners' Cup Winner: 1990
Italian Champion: 2000
Italian Cup winner: 1998, 2000
Italian Super Cup Winner: 1998
Winners' Cup Winner: 1999
European Super Cup Winner: 1999
Footballer of the Year in Italy according to Guerin Sportivo: 1988, 1991
Italian Footballer of the Year: 1997
Best Italian Footballer of the Year: 1997

As a coach:

Italian Cup winner: 2000/2001
Italian Cup Winner: 2003/2004
Italian Champion: 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008
Italian Cup winner: 2004/2005, 2005/2006
Italian Super Cup Winner: 2005
Champion of England: 2011/2012
FA Cup Winner: 2010/2011
FA Super Cup Winner: 2012
Turkish Cup Winner: 2013/2014
Winner of the Golden Bench Award: 2008
Premier League Manager of the Month (2): December 2011, October 2011
Inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2015.

Over the past few years, the famous Italian football manager Roberto Mancini has often been criticized by sports experts. And I must say, not unreasonably. The Italian received an almost bottomless budget and unlimited opportunities at Manchester City, but failed to please the club's bosses and thousands of blue moon fans with a triumph in the Champions League. On the other hand, if we evaluate Mancini's coaching career as a whole, then, for sure, he will enter the top 3 of the most titled of his compatriots.

Player career

Roberto Mancini is a graduate of the Bologna club from the north of Italy, where he also took his first steps in professional football, playing mainly as a right forward. The striker managed to score nine times already in his first season, which attracted the interest of Sampdoria, which occupied a leading position in the Italian Serie A at the end of the last century. As part of the Blucherchiati, Roberto made up a powerful attacking duet with another Italian football player, Gianluca Vialli.

In just fifteen seasons in a blue and white T-shirt, Mancini played about five hundred matches and became the champion of Italy with the team. He also won four national Cups, the Super Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup. The Italian striker was one of those who created a formidable reputation for that Sampdoria in European battles. Needless to say, for a decade and a half, the main idol of Luigi Ferraris was precisely Roberto Mancini. A photo of a player with titles won can still be found today in the club museum of the club from Genoa.

At the end of his career as a player, the striker managed to play for three years in the Roman Lazio (with which, by the way, he won six titles, including the Cup Winners' Cup) and even played five games in the English Premier League as part of Leicester.

coaching activities

While still a Lazio player, Roberto Mancini, thanks to his vast experience, often acted as an assistant to the head coach of the Romans, Sven-Göran Eriksson. It is not surprising that in 2000 the ex-forward of the Blues headed one of the clubs in Serie A - Fiorentina. The first pancake, as usual, turned out to be lumpy, and after only a few months the coach left Florence. Things went a little better for the young specialist in his native Lazio. Roberto won the Coppa Italia with the team, but was soon also forced to leave the capital's club due to financial troubles and scandals related to the activities of the president.

From 2004 to 2008, Mancini headed Inter Milan, with whom he achieved very good success in the domestic arena. The Italian mentor became the champion of the country three times and triumphed in the national Cup two more times. Later (in 2014), Roberto signed a contract with the Nerazzurri for another two seasons, but not only failed to win anything with the team, but also showed uninteresting, inconsequential football.

Personnel decides everything

The main achievement of Mancini during his management of the Milan team is rightfully considered not to be won titles (although the Italian was very successful in this aspect), but the ability to get a potentially strong player into the team for relatively little money or even for free. For four years, Hernan Crespo, Julio Cesar, and it is very difficult to overestimate the merit of Roberto Mancini in these transfers. The model of his Inter was used even by the odious one, which in 2010 won the Champions League with the Nerazzurri.

At Manchester City

At the end of the first decade of the new century, another financial project appeared in football England, built on Arab capital, called Manchester City. Roberto Mancini was invited to manage the new “car”, with whom the club signed a contract for 3.5 years.

The Italian continued to show miracles of football flair in Foggy Albion, otherwise how can one explain that Yaya Toure, David Silva and the current attack leader Sergio Aguero appeared in the team with his arrival? By the way, it is this trinity that makes up the backbone of the "blue moon" to this day.

The Italian spent four years in Manchester and left mixed memories of himself. On the one hand, after several decades, he returned the titles to the club and played spectacular and effective football. On the other hand, by investing fabulous sums in the development of City, the Arab sheikhs probably intended to win the main European tournament - the Champions League, but the Italian did not succeed in doing this.

Roberto Mancini: tactics and strategies

The Italian mentor is the most experimental in terms of confrontation and the use of various tactics. English journalists have been forced to "scratch their heads" more than once, having recognized the starting line-up for the upcoming match and noted that Mancini's actions often cause them bewilderment. However, according to the same writing fraternity, such a strategy is also the trump card of the Italian specialist, because compared to the more pragmatic Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho, Mancini's Manchester City showed bright and attacking football, which the audience likes so much and which is so unusual coaches from the Apennines.

Roberto Mancini is a former Italian footballer and current football coach who is not currently under contract with any club. last place his job was the Italian Inter. Roberto Mancini is now 52 years old and has been coaching for sixteen years. When he was a football player, he played as a center forward, but in some cases he moved deeper and played a drawn forward.

Club career

Roberto Mancini was born on November 27, 1964 in the Italian city of Jesi, where he began playing football from an early age. Already at the age of 13, he was screened at a local club called Bologna, where he was accepted. There he continued his football development, and pretty soon the coaches noticed a great talent in him. As a result, already in 1980, the 16-year-old boy made his debut for the club and played the whole season, entering the field 31 times and scoring nine goals against professional rivals.

Naturally, his days at Bologna were numbered - the leading clubs in Italy immediately became interested in him, and in the summer of 1982, Roberto Mancini signed a contract with Sampdoria, where he spent most of his career. More precisely, for fifteen years Mancini defended the colors of his club. During this time, he played 566 matches, scoring 168 goals in them. And only in 1997, when he was already 33 years old, Roberto decided to try himself in a new club, which was the Roman Lazio. There he played for another three years and, despite his age, showed good results. For three years, Mancini played 136 matches and scored 24 goals in them.

In 2000, Mancini decided to try his hand at parting in another championship, signing a short-term contract with the English Leicester, where he spent only one month, playing five more matches, but not scoring a single goal. And in February 2001, Mancini announced that he was ending his professional football career.

Performances in the team

It cannot be said that Roberto Mancini, whose photographs nevertheless appeared on the pages of Italian sports publications, was a star player. Still, Sampdoria was not a world-class club, and in Italy it almost never found itself in leading roles. Only once, in 1991, the club managed to win the Italian championship with the help of Mancini, and also four times he became the winner of the Italian Cup.

The biggest achievement of the player in Sampdoria was the victory in the European Champions Cup, the most prestigious club tournament. Later, together with Lazio, he partially repeated his success, winning the Italian Championship, two Italian Cups and the European Cup. But how did the career of a player in the Italian national team develop? There, Mancini played only 36 matches, scoring four goals in them. He made his debut in May 1984 in a friendly match against the Canadian team, for the first time he went to a major tournament in 1988 - it was the European Championship.

It was there that he scored his first goal for the national team, and against the German national team. Then he played all four matches, but at the 1990 World Cup he was present in the application, but did not appear on the field even once. Since then, Roberto Mancini, the footballer who won two European Cups, has not been called up to major tournaments, and he played his last match for the national team in March 1994.

coaching career

Roberto Mancini, whose biography is not limited to playing on the field, planned to end his career back in 2000. When his contract with Lazio came to an end, he was offered another contract. In the summer of 2000, Mancini became an assistant coach, who at that time was Sven-Göran Eriksson. After working under him for six months, Mancini returned to big football to spend a farewell month with Leicester, after which he received a professional coaching license and began to coach Fiorentina. In the first season, he finished in the Championship in 9th place, but led the team to victory in the Coppa Italia, and in the second he completely failed and was fired when the club was in 18th place.

In 2002, Roberto led Lazio, which also led to victory in the Italian Cup, and also raised it to 4th place in the championship. In 2004, Mancini moved to Inter, with whom in the first season he finished in 3rd place and won the Cup, and also reached the 1/4 finals of the Champions League, and in the second he already won both the Cup and the Championship. Seasons 3 and 4 were marked by victories in the Italian Championship and two second places in the Italian Cup. This was followed by four years at Manchester City, where he was able to win the FA Championship and the FA Cup. In 2013, Mancini moved to Galatasaray for a year, where he finished second in the Turkish Championship and won the Turkish Cup. In 2014, Roberto returned to Inter, where he spent two seasons, but his maximum was fourth place in the Italian Championship and the semi-finals of the Italian Cup.

What's next?

In the summer of 2016, Mancini was fired from Inter, but decided not to sign a contract with another club for the time being, taking a short break. He is expected to return to coaching in the summer of 2017.

Robert Mancini. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org/Roger Goraczniak

Italian coach Roberto Mancini can lead the Zenit football club after the blue-white-blue announced the termination of the contract with Mircea Lucescu. Under the leadership of the Romanian specialist, the club had one of the worst seasons in recent times. Zenit won the championship bronze, thus not getting into the Champions League, and showed their worst result in 12 years in the Europa League, being eliminated from the fight in the 1/16 finals.

According to media reports, the new general director of the St. Petersburg club Sergey Fursenko completed negotiations with Mancini. According to Sports.ru, the parties agreed on all the details of the contract. Mancini previously worked for Inter, Galatasaray, Manchester City, Lazio and Fiorentina.