Corrado Orrico

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Corrado Orrico

Personal information
Date of birth	(1940-04-16) 16 April 1940 (age 83)
Place of birth	Massa, Italy
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1960–1966	Sarzanese
Managerial career
1966–1969	Sarzanese
1969–1970	Carrarese
1970–1972	Massese
1972–1975	Camaiore
1975–1979	Carrarese
1979–1980	Udinese
1980–1983	Carrarese
1983–1984	Brescia
1984–1986	Carrarese
1986–1987	Prato
1987–1988	Carrarese
1988–1991	Lucchese
1991–1992	Inter Milan
1994–1995	Carrarese
1995–1996	Avellino
1996–1997	Siena
1997–1998	Alessandria
1998–1999	Empoli
1999–2000	Lucchese
2001–2002	Treviso
2002–2003	Massese
2006–2007	Carrarese
2008–2009	Prato
2013	Gavorrano
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Corrado Orrico (born 16 April 1940) is an Italian football coach.

Career

Orrico started his coaching career by serving as head in a number of minor division clubs in his native Tuscany, and he gained popularity after guiding Lucchese to impressive results in the Italian Serie B, narrowly missing a historic promotion in the top-flight; such results led Inter Milan chairman Ernesto Pellegrini to appoint him as new head coach for the 1991–92 season as a replacement for Giovanni Trapattoni, who had won the scudetto with the nerazzurri side in the 1988–89 season. One of his first moves was to assign the #5 shirt to German captain Lothar Matthäus instead of his usual #10. However, his career at Inter turned out to be extremely unsatisfactory, and he was sacked after a few games in the national league and a disappointing UEFA Cup campaign that ended with an early elimination by Boavista FC. His position was taken by Luis Suárez.

He then coached, with little success, a number of minor league teams, mostly from his native Tuscany. In 2008, he marked his football comeback by accepting an offer from Serie C2 team Prato. He left Carrarese in June 2009, after his son committed suicide; his dead body was found by Orrico himself. ^[1]

In April 2013, following the sacking of Renato Buso, 73-year-old Orrico was appointed new head coach of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione strugglers Gavorrano, in deep relegation zone with four remaining games until the end of the season. ^[2] He failed to escape relegation, with Gavorrano being defeated in the relegation playoffs.

References

1. "Dramma Orrico Si suicida il figlio" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 30 May 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
2. "Orrico torna in panchina: l'ex Inter cercherà di salvare il Gavorrano" [Orrico back on the dugout: the former Inter coach will try to save Gavorrano] (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 15 April 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2013.