Mauro Lustrinelli

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Personal information
Mauro Lustrinelli
Full name	Mauro Lustrinelli
Date of birth	26 February 1976 (1976-02-26) (age 32)
Place of birth	Bellinzona, Switzerland
Height	173cm
Playing position	forward
Club information
Current club	FC Luzern
Number	16
Youth clubs
1986-1989 1989-1992 1992-1994	US Giubiasco AC Bellinzona US Giubiasco
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-2001 2001-04 2004-06 2006-07 2007-	Bellinzona FC Wil FC Thun Sparta Prague FC Luzern	164 (109) 079 0(22) 066 0(36) 025 00(5) 041 00(16)
National team²
2005-	Switzerland	011 00(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 March 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 18:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Mauro "Lustri" Lustrinelli (born 26 February 1976) is a professional Swiss footballer who is currently playing for Swiss club FC Luzern. He is also a former player of the Swiss national team. He has a Bachelor in Business Administration and made a dissertation about the Italian Serie A.

He started his professional career at the club AC Bellinzona in 1994 and played for them until 2001. Then he transferred to FC Wil and played there in the next three seasons before transferring to FC Thun in 2004. In 2005, he was the Swiss Super League's second best goalscorer with 20 goals scored and also qualified with the club for the UEFA Champions League. In 2006, he signed for Sparta Prague but after one year at the club he signed with his current club FC Luzern in order to play first team football leading up to UEFA EURO 2008 in Austria & Switzerland.

Lustrinelli made his debut for the Swiss national team on 17 August 2005 in a friendly match against Norway and won up to this time a total of six international caps for the team. He is also part of the Swiss team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany. On 19 June 2006, he was substituted in to play the last four minutes of the Swiss team's World Cup group match against Togo and after only one minute of playing he created the assist that allowed Tranquillo Barnetta to score the goal for the final 2-0 win for Switzerland, giving them the real chance of passing the group stage. The 2006 FIFA World Cup was his last appearance in the swiss jersey. He was not selected for the UEFA Euro 2008.

In Ticino, the Canton where Lustrinelli is originally from, after the great game against Togo a fanatic "Lustrimania" exploded. In some places, this fanaticism was expressed with such intensity that students, so called "Lustrini", were prohibited from wearing Lustrinelli's national team shirt to school.^{[citation needed]}

Being originally from the northern part of Ticino (so called Sopraceneri), Lustrinelli grew up close to the referee Massimo Busacca, who is currently representing Switzerland at FIFA World Cup 2006. Within their close friends in Ticino, Lustrinelli and Massimo are known as twin brothers.

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Official UEFA player page

v • d • e FC Lucerne – current squad

1 Zibung • 3 Bader • 4 Schwegler • 6 Seoane • 7 Lustenberger • 8 Chiumiento • 13 Lambert • 14 Cipot • 15 Diarra • 16 Lustrinelli • 17 Veskovac • 18 König • 19 Clemente • 20 Tchouga • 21 Diethelm • 23 Marić • 24 Wiss • 25 Munsy • 26 Saqi • 31 Imholz • 32 Büchli • 35 Foschini • new El Idrissi • Manager: Sforza

v • d • e Switzerland squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup

1 Zuberbühler • 2 Djourou • 3 Magnin • 4 Senderos • 5 Margairaz • 6 Vogel • 7 Cabanas • 8 Wicky • 9 Frei • 10 Gygax • 11 Streller • 12 Benaglio • 13 Grichting • 14 D. Degen • 15 Džemaili • 16 Barnetta • 17 Spycher • 18 Lustrinelli • 19 Behrami • 20 Müller • 21 Coltorti • 22 Yakın • 23 P. Degen • Coach: Kuhn