Massimo Carrera

Massimo Carrera

Coaching Spartak Moscow in 2017
Personal information
Date of birth	(1964-04-22) 22 April 1964
Place of birth	Sesto San Giovanni, Italy
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Spartak Moscow (manager)
Youth career
	Pro Sesto
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1982–1983	Pro Sesto	30	(4)
1983–1984	Russi	28	(5)
1984–1985	Alessandria	31	(0)
1985–1986	Pescara	19	(1)
1986–1991	Bari	156	(4)
1991–1996	Juventus	114	(1)
1996–2003	Atalanta	207	(3)
2003–2004	Napoli	26	(0)
2004–2005	Treviso	12	(0)
2005–2008	Pro Vercelli	63	(1)
Total		686	(19)
International career
1992	Italien	1	(0)
Managerial career
2009–2012	Juventus (youth teams)
2012	Juventus (caretaker)
2012–2014	Juventus (assistant)
2014–2016	Italy (assistant)
2016	Spartak Moscow (assistant)
2016–	Spartak Moscow
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Massimo Carrera (born 22 April 1964 in Sesto San Giovanni) is an Italian association football manager and a former player, who played as a defender. He is the manager of FC Spartak Moscow in Russia.

He is nicknamed "la bandera". He was a caretaker manager of Juventus, due to head coach Antonio Conte's 10-month ban (later reduced to 4 months), effective from August 2012.

Club career

Carrera began his career at Pro Sesto, but rose to fame with Bari enjoying five seasons before moving to Juventus in 1991. Under Giovanni Trapattoni he was deployed at right back, a role also held at Bari. He disputed an excellent first season, culminating with being called up for the Italian national team.

In 1994 with the arrival of Marcello Lippi he is deployed as sweeper, in place of Luca Fusi, becoming a pillar of the team, winning both the Scudetto and the Italian Cup. He also lifts the UEFA Cup at the end of the season.

Due to the arrival of skilled defenders Pietro Vierchowod and Paolo Montero, on the following seasons he starts more often from the bench, but offers valued contribution when called.

After 166 caps with Juventus, and having won the Scudetto, the Coppa Italia, the Champions League, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, in the summer of 1996, he transferred to Atalanta.

He quickly became captain and leader of the Orobici, playing there for eight seasons and totaling 207 caps and 3 goals. He left Bergamo in 2003 to join Napoli, and the following season, he settled in Treviso.

He stayed in Veneto for just a season, and on 28 October 2005, at the age of 41, he signed for Pro Vercelli.

At the end of the 2007–08 season, at the age of 44, he decided to retire from playing football to focus on coaching.

International career

Carrera's excellent performance with Juventus in the first year with the club earned him his first international call-up under manager Arrigo Sacchi; Carrera made his debut with the Italy national football team on 19 February 1992, at Cesena, in a friendly against San Marino.

Coaching

Carrera was reunited with former Juventus teammates Antonio Conte and Angelo Alessio in the summer of 2011 when he joined the club's coaching staff as a technical director.

Due to a 10-month ban against head coach Antonio Conte for alleged implications of his failure to report match fixing and a similar ban against his assistant Angelo Alessio, Carrera was appointed in July 2012 as Juventus' caretaker coach. In his first official match he claimed the 2012 Supercoppa Italiana defeating Napoli in Beijing (4–2 after extra time). After Angelo Alessio's ban was removed he returned to the position of Technical Director, leaving the bench to Alessio.

Before the 2016–17 season, he was hired as an assistant manager for the Russian side FC Spartak Moscow. Manager Dmitri Alenichev resigned from his post of 5 August 2016 after Spartak's elimination from the UEFA Europa League by AEK Larnaca F.C., and Carrera was appointed the caretaker manager. On 17 August 2016, he was hired as Spartak's manager on a permanent basis. Carrera's debut as head coach took place on 21 August 2016 against FC Krasnodar where red-white captured their first victory 2–0. No other Spartak head coach managed to start their work as successfully as Carrera did: Spartak collected 28 of 36 points in first twelve matches under Carrera. On 7 May 2017, Spartak secured their first Russian Premier League title since 2001 under Carrera's leadership. On 6 June 2017, he extended his Spartak contract to 31 May 2019.

Coaching record

As of 31 May 2017

Team	From	To	Record
			M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %	Ref.
Juventus	1 July 2012	19 October 2012	10	7	3	0	24	9	+15	070.00
Spartak Moscow	5 August 2016	present	30	21	3	6	42	28	+14	070.00
Total			40	28	6	6	66	37	+29	070.00	—

Miscellaneous

Carrera unwittingly played a huge role in helping Milan go unbeaten in the 1991–92 Serie A season. During injury time of Juventus' home match against Milan on 15 September 1991, an innocent-looking cross from the right touchline hit Carrera's head, and the ball looped past a stranded Stefano Tacconi for the crucial equaliser. Milan would then go on to finish the season unbeaten, and embark on a record-breaking 58-match unbeaten streak.

Honours

Player

Bari

• Serie B (1): 1988–89
• Mitropa Cup (1): 1990

Juventus

• Serie A (1): 1994–95
• Coppa Italia (1): 1994–95
• Supercoppa Italiana (1): 1995
• UEFA Champions League (1): 1995–96
• UEFA Cup (1): 1992–93
• UEFA Super Cup (1): 1996
• Intercontinental Cup (1): 1996

Caretaker Manager

Juventus

• Supercoppa Italiana (1): 2012

Manager

Club

Spartak Moscow

• Russian Premier League (1): 2016–17
• Russian Super Cup (1): 2017

Individual

• Russian Premier League Coach of the Year (1): 2016–17

External links

• Profile at lega-calcio.it