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Luigi "Gigi" De Canio (born September 26, 1957
in Matera) is an Italian football manager and former player, and the
current manager of Serie B
team Lecce.
Career
Player
De Canio, a full back,
played mostly with Serie C1 and Serie C2 teams, his lone
season in Serie B being
1979-80 with Matera,
marking his debut in the division on September 16, 1979 against Genoa.[1] He
retired in 1989 with amateur team Pisticci, of which he
successively became head coach.
Coach
De Canio started his coaching career in 1989 with Promozione team
Pisticci, immediately winning the league, being thus promoted to Serie D. He served as Pisticci
boss for four more seasons before joining Serie C2 team Savoia during
the 1993-94 season, and winning the promotion playoffs the
following season. In 1995-96 he coached Siena of Serie C1, leading the
Robur to an eighth place. In 1996-97 he signed for Serie
C1 minnows Carpi, a team which featured a young Marco Materazzi
among their players,[2] and led
the Emilia-Romagna side to a surprising fourth place which allowed
them to play the promotion playoffs. In 1997-98 he moved to Serie B club Lucchese, hardly saving them from
relegation with a final 16th place. Initially with no club for the
following season, De Canio was then signed by 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[3] and
lost 2 of its opening 3 matches in 1998-99 [4]. He
guided i biancoazzuri to 65 points, finishing 5th, just
one point from 4th, 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 Serie A club Udinese, which
appointed him for the 1999-2000 season.
His first Serie A campaign
ended in an eighth place for the bianconeri and a place in
the UEFA
Intertoto Cup, which they successively
won, thus ensuring a place in the UEFA Cup
2000-01.[6]
In 2000-01, after a very impressive start,
Udinese entered into a long result crisis which brought to De Canio
being sacked on March 19, 2001 following a home loss to 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 Napoli boss with the goal to lead the
azzurri back to Serie
A; however he failed to do so, as Napoli ended their Serie B
campaign in fifth place, six points shy of the fourth Serie A spot.
He consequently left Napoli and was appointed at the helm of Reggina during
the 2002-03 season, maintaining their place in
the Italian top flight after winning a tie-breaking playoff to Atalanta. During
the 2003-04, De Canio was called to replace Roberto
Donadoni at the helm of Serie B club Genoa, which were sadly fighting to escape
relegation despite their initial promotion claims, leading the club
to a final 16th place in the league table. He was later sacked by
Genoa only a handful days before their Serie B 2004-05 debut to
appoint Serse Cosmi
at his place. He was then appointed on January 2005 by Serie A
minnows 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 Championship team Queens Park Rangers on October
29, 2007, succeeding the recently-sacked John Gregory.[8] He
started his QPR experience with a 2–0 home win to Hull City on
November 3.[9].
Rangers signed several players during the January transfer
window: Ákos Buzsáky who had previously been on
loan from Plymouth Argyle, Hogan Ephraim from
West
Ham, Kieran Lee on
loan from Manchester United, Gavin Mahon on loan
from Watford, Matthew
Connolly from Arsenal, Patrick Agyemang from Preston and Fitz Hall from Wigan. Early in January QPR also
managed to secure striker Rowan Vine in a permanent move following his
brief loan spell which had ended in December. During 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 Serie A relegation
battlers Lecce,
replacing Mario
Beretta at the helm of the salentini,[13]
but did not manage to save the side from relegation. On May 31,
2009 US Lecce announced De Canio had refused to extend his contract
with the club; however, on June 6 the club officially confirmed to
have reached an agreement with the former QPR manager, who will
serve as head coach of the giallorossi also in their
2009–10 Serie B campaign.[14]
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.[15] The
mistake is likely made due to the world renown of footballer Paolo Di Canio,
who played his career while De Canio managed; the two are
not related.
References
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
De Canio, Luigi |
| ALTERNATIVE
NAMES |
De Canio, Luigi |
| SHORT
DESCRIPTION |
footballer, football manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
1957-9-26 |
| PLACE OF
BIRTH |
Matera, Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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| PLACE OF
DEATH |
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