Roberto Di Matteo - a legend "Chelsea"

Today, not everyone is a fan of football will remember who is Roberto Di Matteo is now continuing his career the Swiss-Italian specialist, and what are its recent success in coaching. But not so long ago Di Matteo was led by none other, and the leader of English and European football - London "Chelsea" and was considered one of the most promising new generation of managers.

Roberto Di Matteo: biography

Roberto parents emigrated from Italy to the Swiss city of Schaffhausen, where their son was born in May 1970. The boy from childhood was fond of football seriously, and six years was in the youth team of FC "Schaffhausen".

Roberto Di Matteo - a legend

In the 18 years Roberto has signed with the Swiss team in the first professional contract. By the way, I started playing football at a young center-back and only over the years, "moved" in the center of the field.

Roberto Di Matteo played in his native club three full seasons, after which the status of the leader of the defense moved to the camp of the more famous "Zurich". The FCZ footballer spent another year, having played almost all the matches from whistle to whistle. All the more paradoxical decision to change the look of the Swiss championship leader on a team that a year ago a miracle to protect themselves from relegation from the elite division. In "Aarau" Di Matteo moved in 1992 and immediately helped his team to take fifth place for him. However, this was only the beginning of a fairy tale outsider Super League. After a season of "Aarau" totally unexpected championship became champion, and one of those from match to match hammered this achievement was Roberto Di Matteo. Soccer player in a short time and left the "Aarau," Switzerland and the championship, but the club's fans will long remember the names of those who gave them a real treat. Since 1993, Di Matteo defended the colors of the Roman "Lazio", and after three seasons spent in a sky-blue shirt, the player left Italy.

Roberto Di Matteo - a legend

"Aristocrat"

In London "Chelsea" Roberto Di Matteo was in 1996. Transfer midfielder cost the "aristocrats" of 5 million pounds. The first season went to freshman blue more than successful. Roberto was one of the best scorers of the capital team, and helped the team to take a high for her at that time in sixth place in the Premier League and win the national cup. The next football year, and at all marked for the player marked ten goals scored in the Premier League, but the most important thing - to win the Cup and UEFA Super Cup, the draw of which Di Matteo played perhaps the decisive role.

Trauma and the completion of his playing career,

Future football player in "Chelsea" looked serene, but the fate prepared for the midfielder a new trial. At the turn of the century, Roberto received two serious injuries incompatible with a further extension of his playing career.

Di Matteo was only 32 years old when he was forced to end its way into professional sports. It is noteworthy that the coach "Chelsea" Claudio Ranieri has organized a worthy farewell to a legend of the club and his compatriot Roberto Di Matteo. "Chelsea" in the final of the FA Cup in 2002 took another London giants - "Arsenal", and aristocrats in the field brought just completed a career midfielder.

Roberto Di Matteo - a legend

Coaching career

The debut of the Swiss-Italian manager took place in 2008. Di Matteo received a coaching license, and in the summer season led the English club "Milton Keynes Dons". At the helm of the team, serving in the lower divisions of professional, he was replaced by another famous football player in the past, Paul Ince.

The new season of Roberto Di Matteo has already started in the "West Brom", has just retired from the Premier League. With "blackbirds" the manager has not developed from the first game, so the club's decision to fire management specialist to the end of the contract seemed quite logical.

The ups and downs of

In summer 2011, Di Matteo was invited to the "Chelsea" as the assistant head coach of the London team, Andre Villas-Boas. "Aristocrats" only recently said goodbye to the notorious Jose Mourinho, is going through hard times, and the strap raised "features" was too much for his compatriot. As a result, Boas has not completed with the team until the end of the season, and his successor, as expected, began to Di Matteo. Until the end of the season remained a matter of weeks, however, the Swiss-Italian during this time managed to win the Champions League in the "Bavaria" and the FA Cup in the "Liverpool".

Roberto Di Matteo - a legend

In the triumphs followed by immediate appointment of a manager for the head coach, but then the results were not so rosy, as the former recognition and sympathy fans vanished as fast as before the prefix "and. about. "at the position of head coach.

Club "Chelsea" Roberto Di Matteo in which was the head coach, started briskly enough in the Premier League, scoring seven victories in the first eight matches, but progress on other fronts "aristocrats" left much to be desired. At the beginning of the season were played matches for the FA Community Shield and the UEFA Super Cup (against the "Manchester City" and "Atletico Madrid", respectively). However, the fall was followed by failure in the championship match against "Manchester United", "West Brom", "Swansea" and "Liverpool", but from the London team finally rolled down the standings. The last drop of patience Roman Abramovich was the defeat in the match of the group round of the Champions League against "Juventus". At the end of 2012 Di Matteo resigned as head coach of "aristocrats".

Roberto Di Matteo - a legend

A series of failures

After two years of break, the Italian led the German "Schalke", but sixth place as a result of the season was not the result, which is calculated on the Schalke management, so the first year of the contract was the last. In the summer of 2016 Di Matteo has signed an agreement with "Aston Villa", but also at the helm of "claret" coach lasted just four months, after which he was dismissed for poor performance.