Frederic Massara

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Frederic Massara
Personal information
Full name Frederic Massara
Date of birth (1968-11-11) 11 November 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth Turin, Italy
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Stade rennais FC (sporting director)
Youth career
Torino
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1986–1987 Torino 0 (0)
1987–1991 Pavia 123 (26)
1991–1994 Pescara 100 (15)
1994–1996 Fidelis Andria 72 (8)
1996–1998 Palermo 51 (4)
1998–1999 Arezzo 27 (6)
1999–2000 Pescara 21 (0)
2000–2001 Moncalieri 30 (2)
2001–2002 Fidelis Andria 8 (0)
2002–2003 Tivoli 7 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frederic Massara (born 11 November 1968) is an Italian football director, coach and former player. He was most recently the director of football of AC Milan.

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Club career

A quick attacking forward, Massara started his career in the youth ranks of Torino, but never managed to break through the first team and was eventually sold to Serie C1 club Pavia. In 1991 he joined Pescara, playing three years under head coach Giovanni Galeone, being featured as a wing forward in an attacking 4–3–3 lineup that won promotion to Serie A in 1992. He made his Serie A debut in the 1992–93 season, in what would remain his lone top flight season as a player.

After Pescara, he joined another Serie B club, Fidelis Andria, with little success; following that, he played with several other teams at Serie B, Serie C1 and Serie C2 level before retiring in 2003.

Managerial career

Following his retirement as a player, Massara became a coach, working as an assistant for Benevento (2006–07), Pescara (2007) and Martina (2007–08).

In July 2008 he joined Palermo director of football Walter Sabatini as one of his collaborators for the Sicilians. He then followed Sabatini on the same role at Roma.

In May 2011, he became a formally licensed director of football after passing the specific Italian Football Federation classes.

He was successively named as director of football of Roma in October 2016, taking over from Sabatini himself; he however left the role soon later to re-join with Sabatini in his new role at Inter Milan and Jiangsu Suning.

On 1 June 2018, Massara returned to Roma as the club's general secretary, working alongside new director of football Monchi, and then replacing him after the latter's dismissal on 8 March 2019. On 5 June, Massara and Roma mutually parted ways.

On 21 June 2019, he was named new sporting director of Milan. [1] On 17 November 2022, he was recognised as Sporting Director of the Year alongside fellow Milan director Paolo Maldini at the 2022 Globe Soccer Awards. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "FREDERIC MASSARA APPOINTED NEW SPORTING DIRECTOR OF AC MILAN". AC Milan. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  2. ↑ Bettoni, Lorenzo (17 November 2022). "Globe Soccer Awards: all the winners – Maldini, Osimhen, Ibra, Ancelotti, Salah and more". Football Italia. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
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