Walter Mazzarri - Football Coach

Walter Mazzarri (Italian pronunciation: ; born 1 October 1961) is an Italian professional football manager and former player. After a 14-year playing career with Italian clubs including Reggiana and Empoli, Mazzarri coached several smaller Italian sides and in 2007 took up a managerial position with Sampdoria. With the help of the attacking partnership of Antonio Cassano and Giampaolo Pazzini, he led the team to qualify for the UEFA Cup in his first season and subsequently reached the Coppa Italia final the next year. In 2009, he joined Napoli, where he implemented a 3–4–3 formation with which he later became associated. With the attacking trio of Ezequiel Lavezzi, Edinson Cavani and Marek Hamšík, nicknamed I tre tenori ("The three tenors"), he helped the team qualify for the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the club's history in 2011, and won the Coppa Italia the following season, the club's first trophy in over 20 years. In his final season with the team, he managed a second-place finish in Serie A, the club's best league finish in over 20 years. In 2013, he moved to Inter but was sacked halfway through his second season with the club. He later managed Torino in Serie A, and had one year in charge of Watford in England's Premier League in 2016–17. In 2023, after a gap year from his last management for Cagliari, he returned to Napoli but was sacked in February 2024 after three months. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article

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Acireale	01/02

Pistoiese	02/03

Livorno	03/04

Reggina	04/07
Serie A 04/05	38
Serie A 05/06	38
Coppa Italia 06/07	5
Serie A 06/07	38

Sampdoria	07/09
Intertoto 07	2
UEFA Cup Qual 07/08	2
Coppa Italia 07/08	4
Serie A 07/08	38
UEFA Cup 07/08	2
Coppa Italia 08/09	5
Serie A 08/09	38
UEFA Cup 08/09	8

Napoli	09/13
Coppa Italia 09/10	2
Serie A 09/10	31
Europa Qualif 10/11	2
Coppa Italia 10/11	2
Serie A 10/11	38
Europa League 10/11	8
Coppa Italia 11/12	5
Serie A 11/12	38
Champions 11/12	8
Coppa Italia 12/13	1
Supercoppa 12	1
Serie A 12/13	38
Europa League 12/13	8

Inter Milan	13/14
Coppa Italia 13/14	3
Serie A 13/14	38
Europa Qualif 14/15	2
ICC 14	3
Serie A 14/15	11
Europa League 14/15	4

Watford	16/17
League Cup 16/17	1
EPL 16/17	38
FA Cup 16/17	2

Torino	18/20
Serie A 17/18	19
Coppa Italia 18/19	3
Serie A 18/19	38
Europa Qualif 19/20	6
Coppa Italia 19/20	2
Serie A 19/20	22

Cagliari	21/22
Coppa Italia 21/22	2
Serie A 21/22	32

Napoli	23/24
Coppa Italia 23/24	1
Serie A 23/24	12
Champions 23/24	2
Supercoppa 24	2