Ricardo Caruso Lombardi

Ricardo Caruso Lombardi
Personal information
Full nameRicardo Daniel Caruso Lombardi
Date of birthFebruary 10, 1962
Place of birthBuenos Aires, Argentina
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Playing positionMidfielder
Club information
Current team
Tristán Suárez
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1981Argentinos Juniors5(0)
1982–1983Deportivo Italiano
1984Atlanta
1985Deportivo Italiano
1986–1988Almagro
1989–1990Defensores de Belgrano10(0)
Teams managed
1994–1995Defensores de Belgrano
1995–1996Sportivo Italiano
1996Estudiantes (BA)
1997Temperley
1997–1998Sportivo Italiano
1998–1999Estudiantes (BA)
2000Platense
2001–2002El Porvenir
2002–2003All Boys
2003–2006Tigre
2007Argentinos Juniors
2007–2008Newell's Old Boys
2009Racing Club
2010Tigre
2011–2012Quilmes
2012San Lorenzo
2013Argentinos Juniors
2014Quilmes
2014–Tristán Suárez
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 2013.
† Appearances (Goals).

Ricardo Daniel Caruso Lombardi (born 10 February 1962 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football coach, best known for saving teams from being delegated to second division.

Playing career

Lombardi started his playing career with Argentinos Juniors in 1981. His career was then mostly in the lower leagues of Argentine football apart from 1984 when he played a single season for Club Atlético Atlanta in the Primera Division.

In 1986 he was part of the Deportivo Italiano team that won the Primera B championship.

Titles

Season Team Title
1985–1986Argentina Deportivo Italiano Primera B

Managerial career

After retirement, Caruso Lombardi took up coaching, initially in lower league teams. In the 1995–96 season, he won the Primera B Metropolitana (third division) with Sportivo Italiano, and in the 2004–05 he won it again with Tigre.

Caruso Lombardi was then in charge of Argentinos Juniors, until resigning five games into the 2007 Apertura tournament, despite his team's 3–2 win over Boca Juniors only three weeks previously. He was then hired by Newell's Old Boys, with which he obtained his second victory over Boca in the same 2007 Apertura tournament, beating them 1–0.

On 24 February 2009, Caruso Lombardi became Racing Club's head coach, signing a two-year contract. He helped Racing avoid relegation in his first season; however, he resigned on October 2009, after coaching 11 games without a win in the Apertura tournament. After three years, on 17 December 2009, the coach returned to Tigre, replacing Diego Cagna.

Caruso Lombardi has a preference towards using physically tall footballers on all the positions of the field.[1] In 2010, while coaching Tigre, he was accused by one of his players (Juan Camilo Angulo) of requesting a bribe to put him on the first team.[2] The coach denied the truth of the accusations.

On 8 March 2011, Caruso Lombardi was appointed as head coach of Quilmes, with the club languishing at the bottom of the table and fighting relegation. It is expected that he would remain in that role until his contract expired in June 2012.[3] After a successful spell at Quilmes, during the night of 3 April of the next season, he signed a contract with San Lorenzo de Almagro, replacing Leonardo Madelón in the charge, after their bad results.[4]

Honours

Season Team Title
1995–1996Argentina Sportivo Italiano Primera B Metropolitana
2004–2005Argentina Tigre Primera B Metropolitana

References

  1. ↑ "Un 9 de alta costura". Olé (in Spanish). 2009-06-10. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
  2. ↑ Federico Reyes da Roza (2010-12-04). "Caruso contraataca: juicio a sus acusadores". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  3. ↑ "El Quilmes de Caruso ya está en marcha" (in Spanish). Club official website. 2011-03-08. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
  4. ↑ "Ricardo Caruso Lombardi se convirtió en el nuevo entrenador de San Lorenzo" (in Spanish). Emol.cl. 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2013-04-04.

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