Ciro Ferrara

Ciro Ferrara
Ciro Ferrara
Personal information
Date of birth February 11, 1967 (1967-02-11) (age 44)
Place of birth Naples, Italy
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Centre-back (Retired)
Club information
Current club Italy U-21 (head coach)
Youth career
1980–1984 Napoli
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1994 Napoli 247 (12)
1994–2005 Juventus 253 (15)
Total 500 (27)
National team
1985–1987 Italy U–21 6 (1)
1987–2000 Italy 49 (0)
Teams managed
2005–2006 Italy (assistant)
2008–2009 Italy (assistant)
2009–2010 Juventus
2010– Italy U-21
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Ciro Ferrara (born 11 February 1967) is a former Italian footballer and current head coach of the Italy U-21 team.[1] He spent his playing career as a defender initially at Napoli and later on at Juventus. He is also a former manager of Juventus.

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Career

Napoli

A native of Naples, Ferrara started his career with the youth system of hometown club S.S.C. Napoli in 1980. Ferrara graduated the primavera youth squad in 1984, and began to earn first team call-ups that season. He made 14 total appearances with the club in his first full season. The following season, he became a part of the starting XI, and the Italian soon began to earn national call-ups and was even called up to the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Following the 1993–1994 Serie A season, Ferrara moved to Northern giants, and European powerhouse Juventus FC, under coach Marcello Lippi. He also scored one of Napoli's goals as they won the 1989 UEFA Cup Final.

Juventus

In the summer of 1994, Ferrara transferred to Turin based club, Juventus F.C., and was quickly introduced into the starting eleven, making over 40 total appearances for the club in all competitions in his first season, scoring 1 goal. He is considered one of the best central defenders of his generation, not giving up his starting position for the club for the next 10 years. He also captained the team from 1995 to 1996 and became one of the most experienced and decorated players of the past two decades, winning eight Serie A championships, six of which were with Juventus, and two with Napoli. Ferrara was also part of two Coppa Italia titles (one with each team), three Supercoppa Italiana titles (two with Juventus, one with Napoli) and several European competitions, including the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Intercontinental Cup and European Super Cup). His role as captain, though, was taken over by fellow Italian Alessandro Del Piero in 1996. Throughout his Juventus career Ferrara played an important role in Juventus' backline, with his vast experienced and dominating defensive style. Throughout his 12 year tenure with the club, Ferrara formed impressive defensive partnerships with the likes of Mark Iuliano, Moreno Torricelli, Paolo Montero, Gianluca Pessotto, Lilian Thuram, Alessandro Birindelli, Igor Tudor, Gianluca Zambrotta, Nicola Legrottaglie, and Fabio Cannavaro. Juventus had what was considered as the best defence in the world at this time, and teams strongly regretted ever going down a goal to the club, as they knew how hard it would be to score one back for themselves. In the 1996–1997 season, one of his peak seasons, he scored four goals in 32 Serie A competitions, while also being capped eight times internationally. Ironically, his first professional match, while at Napoli, was played against Juventus in a 0–0 draw. Following the Scudetto winning 2004–2005 Serie A season, Ferrara, along with veteran teammates Mark Iuliano and Paolo Montero called it quits on their Juventus careers. While Montero returned to Uruguay and Iuliano opted to join smaller clubs to conclude his career, while Ferrara retired from football in May 2005 at the age of 38. Ferrara made just 4 Serie A appearances in his final season with the club.

International

For Italy, Ferrara was capped 49 times and played one game each at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. His brilliance, however, was never truly realised at international level despite his impressive tally of caps. During this time, Italy had a plethora of top-class defenders such as Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Mauro Tassotti, Pietro Vierchowod, Riccardo Ferri, Giuseppe Bergomi, Gianluca Pessotto, Paolo Maldini, and in latter years, stars like Fabio Cannavaro, Alessandro Nesta, and Giorgio Chiellini. He was also unfortunate with untimely injuries. This was most notable in the buildup to the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. Ferrara, aged 31 at the time, was at the peak of his career, and had just finished 3 superb seasons at Juventus. In 96–97 and 97–98, he was quite possibly the best defender in Italy, and he was a regular in the Italyline-up. However, Ferrara suffered a serious injury a few weeks before the World Cup and missed the tournament. He was replaced by Nesta. From this time on, Ferrara was a reserve for Italy (and also for Juventus), whereas Cannavaro went on to achieve legendary status. Had Ferrara not suffered this injury, many believe he would have been one of the stars of France '98, as he was at the peak of his career. For this reason, he is not so well-known outside his native-country, but within Italy he is regarded as yet another illustrious defender in a long-line of world class Italian defenders.

Statistics

[2]

Club performance League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Italy League Coppa Italia Europe Total
1984/85 Napoli Serie A 2 0
1985/86 14 0
1986/87 28 2
1987/88 23 1
1988/89 27 0
1989/90 33 0
1990/91 29 2
1991/92 32 1
1992/93 31 4
1993/94 28 2
1994/95 Juventus Serie A 33 1
1995/96 31 3
1996/97 32 4
1997/98 17 1
1998/99 18 0
1999/00 31 1
2000/01 23 1
2001/02 22 3
2002/03 25 0
2003/04 17 1
2004/05 4 0
Country Italy 500 27
Total 500 27

[3]

Italy national team
Year Apps Goals
1987 3 0
1988 4 0
1989 7 0
1990 5 0
1991 6 0
1992 0 0
1993 0 0
1994 0 0
1995 6 0
1996 4 0
1997 8 0
1998 1 0
1999 1 0
2000 4 0
Total 49 0

Coaching career

Ciro Ferrara was part of the Italian technical staff for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. After winning the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he became part of Juventus' staff joining former defending teammate Gianluca Pessotto, with Ferrara being named youth system chief (responsabile settore giovanile), dealing mostly with organisational aspects of the Juve academy. In July 2008 Ciro Ferrara took the UEFA Pro License coaching badges following training at Coverciano, Florence.[4] After Juventus fired Claudio Ranieri following a string of seven league games without a win in the 2008–09 season, Ferrara was named interim head coach of Juventus on May 18, 2009 for the remaining two weeks of the season, with the goal of maintaining second place in the league table, and the possibility of being appointed on a full-time basis for a longer period. In his two games as caretaker manager, he led Juventus to 3–0 and 2–0 wins over Siena and Lazio respectively, thus ensuring a second-place finish over rivals Milan. Following these results, he emerged as a strong candidate for to take the job permanently for the next season. On June 5, 2009, Juventus formally announced his appointment as manager for 2009–10 season.[5][6]

During the summer the team was then massively strengthened with high-profile signings such as Brazilian internationals Diego and Felipe Melo, 2006 FIFA World Cup champions Fabio Cannavaro and Fabio Grosso in defence, as well as young Uruguayan international Martin Caceres, on a loan deal. After winning all the initial four league games, Ferrara's fortunes turned upside down after Juventus failed to get into the knockout round of the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League following a home 1–4 defeat at the hands of FC Bayern Munich, in a game where a draw would have awarded Juve the qualification to the following phase. Since then, Juventus started losing games at domestic level too, including unexpected losses to minor teams such as a home 1–2 loss to Sicilian side Catania, and Ferrara's future was put under discussion. A injury time defeat against A.S. Roma, coached by Ferrara's predecessor Claudio Ranieri, a result that left Juventus in sixth place, four points behind fourth-placed S.S.C. Napoli. He came under intense scrutiny from the media and there was much speculation about who would succeed him as manager, especially after he was absent at the traditional meeting of all Serie A managers, coaches and referees in Rome during mid-season and was instead represented by Director of Sport Alessio Secco and 23-year-old homegrown midfielder Claudio Marchisio at the press conference.[7]

Six days later, Juventus were knocked out of the Coppa Italia by Internazionale 2–1 at Stadio San Siro, leading the board of directors to ultimately sack Ferrara after weeks of speculation regarding his position, replacing him with Alberto Zaccheroni until the end of the season.[8]

On 22 October 2010 Ciro Ferrara was announced as new head coach of the Italy U-21 team, with former teammate Angelo Peruzzi as assistant.[1]

Player achievements

Napoli:

Juventus:

Coaching achievements

Italy:

Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
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Total &1000000000000003000000030 &1000000000000001500000015 &100000000000000050000005 &1000000000000001000000010 &1000000000000005000000050.00

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