Pierluigi Tami
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 12 September 1961 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Clusone, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1981–1984 | Chiasso | 43 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 1984–1988 | Locarno | 26 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–1990 | Bellinzona | 43 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1993 | Lugano | 72 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 178 | (17) | |||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Locarno | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Lugano | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Switzerland U17 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2015 | Switzerland (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2015 | Switzerland U21 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Switzerland U23 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Grasshopper Club Zürich | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Lugano | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Pierluigi Tami (born 12 September 1961[1]) is the current director of the Switzerland men's national teams.[2] A former football manager and defender, he holds Swiss and Italian citizenship.
Career[edit]
He was in charge of the Switzerland national under-21 football team, and also worked as an assistant to coach Ottmar Hitzfeld during his time as manager of the Switzerland national football team. In 2011, he won the award for Swiss football coach of the year. Tami coached the Swiss under-23 team at the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London.
Tami played for FC Chiasso, FC Locarno, AC Bellinzona, and FC Lugano in a career that saw him spend his entire time in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. He previously coached Lugano, Locarno, and various Switzerland national youth teams.[3]
On 1 July 2019, he was appointed as director of the Switzerland men's national teams by the Swiss Football Association.[4] As the first holder of the newly created position, he will be mainly in charge of the senior and U21 national teams.
Honours[edit]
Individual[edit]
- Swiss Super League Manager of the Year: 2015–16[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Birrer, Peter M.; Wiederkehr, David (17 January 2015). "Ich werde einen guten Job machen" (in German). Tages Anzeiger. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ "SFV Organigramm" (in German). SFVaccess-date=14 September 2023.
- ^ Pierluigi Tami – UEFA coaching record (archived)
- ^ Tardent, Yves (1 July 2019). "Pierluigi Tami wird Direktor der Schweizer Nationalteams" (in German). NZZ. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Das ist der neue Meisterpokal der Super League – Embolo und GC räumen bei SFL Award Night ab". watson.ch (in German). Retrieved 2022-11-30.
External links[edit]
- Swiss Football Federation profile
- Pierluigi Tami at WorldFootball.net
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Swiss men's footballers
- Italian men's footballers
- Swiss people of Italian descent
- Swiss football managers
- Italian football managers
- AC Bellinzona players
- FC Chiasso players
- FC Locarno players
- FC Lugano players
- FC Lugano managers
- FC Locarno managers
- Grasshopper Club Zürich managers
- Men's association football defenders
- Italian expatriate football managers
- People from Clusone
- Footballers from Lombardy