Pierluigi Tami (born 12 September 1961) is the current director of the
Switzerland
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men's national teams. A former
football
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manager and
defender, he holds
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
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and
Italian citizenship.
Career
He was in charge of the
Switzerland national under-21 football team, and also worked as an assistant to coach
Ottmar Hitzfeld during his time as manager of the
Switzerland national football team. In 2011, he won the award for Swiss football coach of the year. Tami coached the
Swiss under-23 team at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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held in
London
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.
Tami played for
FC Chiasso,
FC Locarno,
AC Bellinzona, and
FC Lugano in a career that saw him spend his entire time in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. He previously coached
Lugano
Lugano ( , , ; ) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It is the largest city in both Ticino and the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland. Lugano has a population () of , and an u ...
,
Locarno
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, and various Switzerland national youth teams.
On 1 July 2019, he was appointed as director of the Switzerland men's national teams by the
Swiss Football Association
The Swiss Football Association (, , , ) is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern.
It was formed in 1895, was a ...
. As the first holder of the newly created position, he will be mainly in charge of the senior and U21 national teams.
Honours
Individual
*
Swiss Super League Manager of the Year:
2015–16
References
External links
Swiss Football Federation profile*
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1961 births
Living people
Swiss men's footballers
Italian men's footballers
Swiss people of Italian descent
Swiss football managers
Italian football managers
AC Bellinzona players
FC Chiasso players
FC Locarno players
FC Lugano players
FC Lugano managers
FC Locarno managers
Grasshopper Club Zurich managers
Men's association football defenders
Italian expatriate football managers
Sportspeople from Clusone
Footballers from the Province of Bergamo
20th-century Italian sportsmen
20th-century Swiss sportsmen