Daniele Zoratto

Daniele Zoratto
Personal information
Date of birthNovember 15, 1961
Place of birthEsch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Playing positionCentre Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Italy U19 (head coach)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1979Piobbico?(?)
1979–1980Casale4(0)
1980–1981Bellaria?(?)
1981–1982Cesena7(0)
1982–1983Rimini32(1)
1983–1989Brescia167(6)
1989–1994Parma144(0)
1994–1995Padova17(0)
National team
1993Italy1(0)
Teams managed
1995–1997Voluntas Calcio
1997–2002Brescia (youth team)
2002–2004Parma (technical assistant)
2004–2006Parma (assistant coach)
2006–2007Modena
2008–2009Modena
2009–2010Torino (assistant coach)
2010–2011Italy U19
2011–Italy U16 & Italy U17
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Daniele Zoratto (born 15 November 1961 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) is an Italian association football coach and former player.

Career

Zoratto is best known as one of the AC Parma most prominent players during the early 1990s. Notably, he played for Parma from 1989, the year in which the gialloblu promoted to Serie A for their first time ever, to 1994, winning a European Super Cup and a Cup Winners' Cup with the team. He was also capped one time for the Italy national football team by coach Arrigo Sacchi for a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Switzerland.

In 2006, after a few years as Parma youth coach, he became head coach of Serie B club Modena F.C., with his old fellow player Luigi Apolloni, a former Italy international too, as assistant. Zoratto was however sacked on February 2007 because of lack of impressive results. On April 2008 he was re-appointed at the helm of Modena as replacement for Bortolo Mutti, sacked because of poor results.[1]

He was confirmed at the helm of the canarini ( canaries ) for the 2008–09 season, however poor results and club problems led his team to a bottom-table place in the mid-season, this resulting to Zoratto and Modena parting company on January 26, 2009, with assistant manager Apolloni taking over from him.[2]

On November 2009 he was appointed new assistant manager at Torino as part of the new coaching staff of new trainer Mario Beretta, a position he left in January 2010.[3]

On August 2010 he was appointed as new head coach of the Italy U19 team.

References

  1. "Modena: via Mutti, torna Zoratto" (in Italian). RAI Sport. 2008-04-20. Archived from the original on 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
  2. "Cambia la guida tecnica al Modena F.C." (in Italian). Modena FC. 2009-01-26. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
  3. "Zoratto diventa cuore Toro". Bresciaoggi (in Italian). 2009-12-02. Retrieved 2009-12-05.