Fernando "Nando" Orsi (born 12 September 1959 in

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manager and former player, who played as a

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Playing career

After starting out at

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, Orsi, a former

, made his professional debut in 1979 for

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club

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. The following season he moved to

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, where he remained for two seasons. He subsequently joined

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, where he made his

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debut with in 1982, a team for which he played from 1982 to 1985, and again, as backup keeper to Valerio Fiori and later Luca Marchegiani, from 1989 until his retirement in 1998. Between his two spells at Lazio, he also spent four seasons (1985 to 1989) in the lower divisions of Italian football with

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Coaching career

Orsi became assistant coach of

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in 2002. He followed Mancini at

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two years later. He left Inter in 2006 in order to pursue a career as head coach. Initially rumoured as possible

coach in 2006–07, he was surprisingly appointed to a

job on 21 March 2007 by

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chairman

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in order to replace Daniele Arrigoni. He made his debut with a 4–1 home win to

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on 1 April, leading his side to a mid-table finish in the

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season. However, a disappointing start to the 2007–08 league campaign resulted in only two points after the first seven matchdays, convincing Spinelli to sack Orsi on 9 October, making him the first coach to be fired in the season. He was called back at the helm of the ''amaranto'' on 28 April 2008, after Spinelli decided to dismiss Giancarlo Camolese from the team's head coaching post, but did not manage to save his club from relegation to

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. He then served as head coach of

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club

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from October 2010 to February 2011.

References

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