Roberto Di Matteo: life, career and interesting facts from the life of a former football player

Roberto Di Matteo is a famous Swiss-Italian coach who, about 15 years ago, completed the fruitful career of a fielder and devoted himself to the activities of a football coach. However, you can tell about all this in a little more detail.

About club career

Di Matteo was born in the small Swiss town of Schaffhausen on May 29, 1970. His parents migrated there from Italy to find work there. It was in this town that he began his first steps towards the success of Roberto Di Matteo. He was fond of football since childhood. At the age of six he came to FSH at the club "Schaffhausen", where he studied sports. He moved to professional football only at the age of 18. His first team was a native Schaffhausen. At that time, this club acted in the second division. For three seasons, the young midfielder played 50 matches and scored two goals. After that he was bought by Zurich.

In this club, Roberto played the role of the so-called zone defender. And he could very skillfully correct mistakes teammates on the field. For "Zurich" he played 34 matches and scored 6 goals (this is for one season), then moved to "Arau". It was Matteo who helped this club, which since 1914 won nothing, to win the championship of Switzerland in 1992/93.

Then, from 1993 to 1996, he played for Lazio. But the longest time Roberto Di Matteo defended the colors of London's Chelsea. He played in the English club for 6 seasons, after which he hung the boots on the nail.

The event that changed life

It is worth noting that in 2000, when the football season had just begun, Di Matteo suffered a very serious injury. And it was a triple fracture of the leg. Trauma, because of which you can completely lose limbs. He received it on September 28, just 40 miles from his hometown, on a game with FC St. Gallen. It was a match that took place in the UEFA Cup. Matteo himself says that for a while he did not even feel pain. But then she appeared.

He had to postpone ten operations in a month and a half. Then followed 1.5 years (!) Recovery. It is for this reason that Roberto Di Matteo, whose photo is provided in the article, had to finish his career. There was no question of returning to football - the main thing was not to lose a leg.

What next?

The love of sport in the heart of the former midfielder has not faded. He managed to get a coaching license, having in his hands the current contract with the London club. And after a grueling recovery, he returned to football. "Milton Keynes Dons" in 2008 was headed by Di Matteo.

The coach is who he is from the moment. True, for a long time in the "Milton Keynes Dons" the Italian did not stay, since he was invited to the "West Brom", whose business in those days were bad. However, this club lost in the first match with a devastating score 0: 6 to the former team of Di Matteo - "Chelsea". Visible success was not achieved, because Roberto was sent to resign in 2011.

Last 5 years

In 2011, Di Matteo was appointed assistant coach for Chelsea. But then for a while the Italian was fulfilling his duties. Due to the fact that the head coach of the team dismissed.

And by the way, it was under the leadership of Matteo that Chelsea won the FA Cup by going to the finals of the sworn opponent, which is Liverpool. But that's not all, because after two weeks the British took and the main football trophy - victory in the Champions League. This was a significant event. After all, Chelsea won for the first time in history. It was a stunning success.

It's no surprise that Roberto was appointed the head coach after that. But then things began to go worse, and he was fired. Virtually nothing was heard about Roberto Di Matteo. "Where is the former coach of the" pensioners "now?" - many were asked this question. But in 2014 he returned to the world. Roberto was invited to coach Schalke. But since the club sank in the Bundesliga table for three positions (up to the sixth place), Di Matteo was fired.

June 3, 2016 Roberto signed a contract with FC Aston Villa. After receiving the powers of the coach, he bought players for 50 million pounds sterling, however, despite this, the club for 11 rounds showed no success and finished in 19th place. So, more recently, on October 3, 2016, the coach was fired. And so far there is no news about him. Only guesses. Maybe Di Matteo will decide to try himself as a coach. Or no more contracts. It remains only to follow the news.