Luca Gotti (born 13 September 1967) is an Italian professional

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manager and former player who is the manager of

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club

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Club career

Born in

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, Gotti played as a

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for amateur clubs such as Contarina, San Donà and Caerano in the lower divisions of Italy. He achieved promotions twice during his career, with Contarina to

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after winning the 1989–90 edition of the

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and with San Donà to

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in the 1993–94

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season.

Managerial career

Gotti began his managerial career in 1998 as part of the youth system staff of

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. In 1999, he took over his first role as head coach, at the helm of Promozione amateurs

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. Gotti later served two more amateur clubs, Pievigina and Bassano Virtus in Serie D, before joining

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as a youth coach in 2004 and remaining there until 2006. From 9 August 2006 to 21 July 2008, he worked as head coach of the Italy national under-17 team. Gotti then served as head coach of

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side

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from 21 July 2008 to 24 February 2009, and again from 19 March to 25 June 2009, he oversaw the club's relegation by the end of the season. Gotti successively served as head coach of

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for a short period. However, due to poor results, Gotti was dismissed on 6 October 2009. In December 2010, Gotti was named

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's assistant at

team

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, then following the manager also during his stints at

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and

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. He then served as

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's assistant at

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during the 2018–19 season. After Sarri's departure to Juventus, Gotti accepted an offer from

Udinese Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a fo ...

to become

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's assistant manager in July 2019. When Tudor was removed from his managerial duties, Gotti was named as caretaker manager of Udinese on 1 November 2019. He won his first game in charge two days later as Serie A manager with 3–1 over

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, later explicitly stating his lack of interest in taking over as permanent manager. However, he completed the season as head coach of Udinese, obtaining comfortable safety, and being successively confirmed for the

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campaign. On 11 June 2021, Udinese announced they have agreed to extend their contract with him for the coming season (2021–22) as well, until June 2022. On 7 December 2021, Udinese sacked Gotti as manager after a run of bad results. On 1 July 2022, Serie A club

announced to have hired Gotti as their new head coach on a two-year contract.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Contarina *

: 1989–90 San Donà *

: 1993–94

References

External links

Luca Gotti coach profile
at Sky Sport
Luca Gotti coach profile
at playmakerstats.com (English version of zerozero.pt)
Luca Gotti coach profile
at TuttoCalciatori.net * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gotti, Luca 1967 births Living people People from Adria Italian footballers Italian football managers S.S.D. Calcio San Donà players Serie C players Serie D players Eccellenza players Promozione players Bassano Virtus 55 S.T. managers A.C.D. Treviso managers U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918 managers Bologna F.C. 1909 non-playing staff Chelsea F.C. non-playing staff Udinese Calcio managers Serie A managers Serie B managers Serie D managers Association football midfielders Sportspeople from the Province of Rovigo Footballers from Veneto