Fabrizio Lorieri (born 11 February 1964 in
Massa
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Places
*Massa, Tuscany, the administrative seat of the Italian province of Massa-Carrara.
*Massa (river), river in Switzerland
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) is an Italian professional
football
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coach and a former player who played as a
goalkeeper, currently in charge as goalkeeping coach of
Spezia.
Playing career
Lorieri spent 11 seasons in the
Serie A for 4 different teams (though he never played for his first team,
Internazionale), in 7 of those seasons he was the first-choice goalkeeper for his team, playing 192 games in the top-flight division overall.
Managerial career
After his retirement he worked alongside former head coach
Luigi Cagni
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Playing ...
as his assistant at
Catanzaro,
Empoli
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and
Parma. In 2007 he obtained his
UEFA Pro licence at the
Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano, his dissertation covering the subject of goalkeeping psychology in football.
In 2010 he joined Lecce, a former club of his as a player, as a goalkeeping coach.
In 2013, after leaving Lecce, he was hired by
Sassuolo as a goalkeeping coach, filling in the role until 2019.
In 2019 he was called by
Eusebio Di Francesco
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Club career
Di Francesco started his career with Tuscan teams Empoli and Lucchese. In 1995, he joined Piace ...
to work alongside him at
Cagliari
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as his goalkeeping coach.
In June 2022, he was named
Luca Gotti's assistant at Serie A club
Spezia.
Following the dismissal of Gotti in February 2023, Lorieri was then appointed caretaker coach of Spezia for the upcoming league game against
Juventus
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.
He was successively confirmed as a goalkeeping coach following the appointment of
Leonardo Semplici as the new first team head coach.
Coaching statistics
References
1964 births
Living people
People from Massa
Italian men's footballers
Italy men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
AC Prato players
Piacenza Calcio 1919 players
Torino FC players
Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players
AS Roma players
US Lecce players
US Salernitana 1919 players
Genoa CFC players
Spezia Calcio players
ASD Sangiovannese 1927 players
Footballers from the Province of Massa-Carrara
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