Ricardo Caruso Lombardi

Ricardo Daniel Caruso Lombardi (born 10 February 1962 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football manager, currently in charge of Belgrano, and former footballer. He is best known for saving teams from being relegated to second division.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Caruso and the second or maternal family name is Lombardi.
Ricardo Caruso Lombardi
Ricardo Caruso Lombardi during a talk with students from the University of Palermo
Personal information
Full name Ricardo Daniel Caruso Lombardi
Date of birth (1962-02-10) 10 February 1962
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Belgrano (Manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981 Argentinos Juniors 5 (0)
1982–1983 Deportivo Italiano
1984 Atlanta
1985 Deportivo Italiano
1986–1989 Almagro
1989–1990 Chacarita Juniors
1990–1992 Defensores de Belgrano 10 (0)
Teams managed
1994–1995 Defensores de Belgrano
1995–1996 Sportivo Italiano
1996 Estudiantes (BA)
1997 Temperley
1997–1998 Sportivo Italiano
1998–1999 Estudiantes (BA)
2000 Platense
2001–2002 El Porvenir
2002–2003 All Boys
2003–2006 Tigre
2007 Argentinos Juniors
2007–2008 Newell's Old Boys
2009 Racing Club
2010 Tigre
2011–2012 Quilmes
2012 San Lorenzo
2013 Argentinos Juniors
2014 Quilmes
2014 Tristán Suárez
2015 Arsenal de Sarandí
2016 Sarmiento (Junín)
2016 Huracán
2017 Tigre
2019 San Martín Tucumán
2019– Belgrano
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only


Playing career

Lombardi started his playing career with Argentinos Juniors in 1981. His career was then mostly in the lower leagues of Argentine football apart from 1984 when he played a single season for Club Atlético Atlanta in the Primera Division.

In 1986, he was part of the Deportivo Italiano team that won the Primera B championship.

Managerial career

After retirement, Caruso Lombardi took up coaching, initially in lower league teams. In the 1995–96 season, he won the Primera B Metropolitana (third division) with Sportivo Italiano, and in the 2004–05 he won it again with Tigre.

Caruso Lombardi was then in charge of Argentinos Juniors, until resigning five games into the 2007 Apertura tournament, despite his team's 3–2 win over Boca Juniors only three weeks previously. He was then hired by Newell's Old Boys, with which he obtained his second victory over Boca in the same 2007 Apertura tournament, beating them 1–0.

On 24 February 2009, Caruso Lombardi became Racing Club's head coach, signing a two-year contract. He helped Racing avoid relegation in his first season; however, he resigned on October 2009, after coaching 11 games without a win in the Apertura tournament. After three years, on 17 December 2009, the coach returned to Tigre, replacing Diego Cagna.

Caruso Lombardi has a preference towards using physically tall footballers on all the positions of the field.[1] In 2010, while coaching Tigre, he was accused by one of his players (Juan Camilo Angulo) of requesting a bribe to put him on the first team.[2] The coach denied the truth of the accusations.

On 8 March 2011, Caruso Lombardi was appointed as head coach of Quilmes, with the club languishing at the bottom of the table and fighting relegation. It is expected that he would remain in that role until his contract expired in June 2012.[3] After a successful spell at Quilmes, during the night of 3 April of the next season, he signed a contract with San Lorenzo de Almagro, replacing Leonardo Madelón in the charge, after their bad results.[4]

On 26 February 2019, Lombardi was appointed as the manager of San Martín Tucumán.[5]

Honours

Player
Deportivo Italiano

Manager
Deportivo Italiano
Tigre

References
  1. "Un 9 de alta costura". Olé (in Spanish). 2009-06-10. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
  2. Federico Reyes da Roza (2010-12-04). "Caruso contraataca: juicio a sus acusadores". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  3. "El Quilmes de Caruso ya está en marcha" (in Spanish). Club official website. 2011-03-08. Archived from the original on 2011-03-12. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
  4. "Ricardo Caruso Lombardi se convirtió en el nuevo entrenador de San Lorenzo" (in Spanish). Emol.cl. 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2013-04-04.
  5. Caruso Lombardi es el nuevo técnico de San Martín, lagaceta.com.ar, 26 February 2019
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