Walter Mazzarri

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Walter Mazzarri
Personal information
Full name:	Walter Mazzarri
Date of birth:	1 October 1961 (1961-10-01)
Place of birth:	San Vincenzo, Italy
Height:	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position:	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Napoli (head coach)
Senior clubs
Years	Club	App (Gls)
1981–1982 1982 1982–1983 1983 1983–1988 1988–1989 1989–1990 1990–1991 1991–1992 1992–1994 1994–1995 Total	Pescara Cagliari Reggiana Fiorentina Empoli Licata Modena Nola Viareggio Acireale Torres	026 00(4) 004 00(0) 012 00(1) 000 00(0) 091 00(4) 008 00(0) 021 00(0) 030 00(3) 011 00(0) 032 00(1) 009 00(0) 244 0(13)
Teams managed
2001–2002 2002–2003 2003–2004 2004–2007 2007–2009 2009–2013 2013–2014 2016–2017 2018–2020 2021–2022 2023–	Acireale Pistoiese Livorno Reggina Sampdoria Napoli Internazionale Watford Torino Cagliari Napoli

Walter Mazzarri (born 1 October 1961) is an Italian former footballer and manager. He is currently the head coach of Italian Serie A club Napoli.

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 Internazionale, 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.

As a manager in Italy, Mazzarri became known for the excuses for poor performances that he made during post-match interviews.

External links

• Walter Mazzarri management career statistics at Soccerbase

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S.S.C. Napoli - Managers

Kreutzer (1926–27) • Skasa (1927) • Technical Commission (Steiger, Terrile & Molnár) (1927–28) • Fischer (1928) • Terrile (1928–29) • Garbutt (1929–35) • Csapkay (1935–36) • Mattea (1936–38) • Payer (1938–39) • Technical Commission (D'Albora, Iodice, Castello, Piccini & Rocco) (1939) • Baloncieri (1939–40) • Vojak (1940–43) • Innocenti (1943) • Sansone (1945–46) • Vecchina (1947–48) • Sentimenti (1948) • Borel (1948–49) • De Manesc (1949) • Mosele (1949) • Monzeglio (1949–56) • Amadei (1956–59) • Frossi (1959) • Amadei (1959–61) • Sallustro (1961) • Baldi (1961–62) • Pesaola (1962) • Pesaola & Monzeglio (1962–63) • Lerici (1963–64) • Molino (1964) • Pesaola (1964–68) • Chiappella & Parola (1968–69) • Di Costanzo (1969) • Chiappella (1969–73) • Vinicio (1973–76) • Delfrati & Rivellino (1976) • Pesaola (1976–77) • Di Marzio (1977) • Vinício (1978) • Sormani (1980) • Marchesi (1980–82) • Giacomini (1982) • Rambone & Pesaola (1982–83) • Santin (1983–84) • Marchesi (1984–85) • Bianchi (1985–89) • Bigon (1989–91) • Ranieri (1991–93) • Bianchi (1993) • Lippi (1993–94) • Guerini (1994) • Boškov (1994–96) • Simoni (1996–97) • Montefusco (1997) • Mutti (1997) • Mazzone (1997) • Galeone (1997–98) • Montefusco (1998) • Ulivieri (1998–99) • Montefusco (1999) • Novellino (1999–2000) • Zeman (2000) • Mondonico (2000–01) • De Canio (2001–02) • Colomba (2002) • Busoc (2002) • Scoglio (2002–03) • Colomba (2003) • Agostinelli (2003) • Simoni (2003–04) • Ventura (2004) • Reja (2005–09) • Donadoni (2009) • Mazzarri (2009–13) • Benítez (2013–15) • Sarri (2015–18) • Ancelotti (2018–19) • Gattuso (2019–21) • Spalletti (2021–23) • Garcia (2023) • Mazzarri (2023–24) • Calzona (2024) • Conte (2024–)

Inter Milan - Managers

Fossati (1909–15) • Resegotti (1920–22) • Spottiswood (1922–24) • Scheidler (1924–26) • Weisz (1926–28) • Viola (1928–29) • Weisz (1929–31) • Tóth (1931–32) • Weisz (1932–34) • Feldmann (1934–36) • Carraro (1936) • Castellazzi (1936–38) • Cargnelli (1938–40) • Peruchetti (1940) • Zamberletti (1941) • Fiorentini (1941–42) • Ferrari (1942–45) • Carcano (1945–46) • Nutrizio (1946) • Meazza (1947–48) • Carcano (1948) • Astley (1948) • Cappelli (1949–50) • Olivieri (1950–52) • Foni (1952–55) • Campatelli (1955) • Meazza (1955–56) • Frossi (1956) • Ferrero (1957) • Meazza (1957) • Carver (1957–58) • Bigogno (1958) • Campatelli (1959–60) • Achilli (1960) • Cappelli (1960) • Hel. Herrera (1960–68) • Foni (1968–69) • Her. Herrera (1969–70) • Invernizzi (1970–73) • Masiero (1973) • Hel. Herrera (1973) • Masiero (1974) • Suárez (1974–75) • Chiappella (1976–77) • Bersellini (1977–82) • Marchesi (1982–83) • Radice (1983–84) • Castagner (1984–85) • Corso (1985–86) • Trapattoni (1986–91) • Orrico (1991–92) • Suárez (1992) • Bagnoli (1992–94) • Marini (1994) • Bianchi (1994–95) • Suárez (1995) • Hodgson (1995–97) • Castellini (1997) • Simoni (1997–98) • Lucescu (1998–99) • Castellini (1999) • Hodgson (1999) • Lippi (1999–2000) • Tardelli (2000–01) • Cúper (2001–03) • Verdelli (2003) • Zaccheroni (2003–04) • Mancini (2004–08) • Mourinho (2008–10) • Benítez (2010) • Leonardo (2010–11) • Gasperini (2011) • Ranieri (2011–12) • Stramaccioni (2012–13) • Mazzarri (2013–14) • Mancini (2014–16) • de Boer (2016) • Vecchic (2016) Pioli (2016–17) Vecchic (2017) Spalletti (2017–19) Conte (2019–2021) Inzaghi (2021–)

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