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| Full name | Mark Iuliano[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1973-08-12)12 August 1973 (age 52) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cosenza, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Udinese (Vice allenatore) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1996 | Salernitana | 83 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | →Bologna (loan) | 24 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | →Monza (loan) | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–2005 | Juventus | 187 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Real Mallorca | 29 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Sampdoria | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Messina | 21 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Ravenna | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012[2] | San Genesio | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2003 | Italy | 19 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014[3] | Pavia (youth) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015[4] | Latina Primavera | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Latina | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Como | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Partizani Tirana | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Udinese (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Mark IulianoCavaliere OMRI (Italian pronunciation:[ˈmarkjuˈljaːno]; born 12 August 1973) is an Italianfootball manager and a former professional footballer who played as adefender. Following his retirement he worked as a coach.
Iuliano spent the bulk of his playing career with,Juventus, inSerie A, a club with which he won several domestic and international trophies. At international level, he represented theItaly national football team atUEFA Euro 2000, reaching thefinal, and at the2002 FIFA World Cup.
Born inCosenza, Mark Iuliano started his professional football career withSalernitana Calcio in 1990. He would transfer toBologna FC on a season loan deal in 1992 and scored 1 goal in 24 appearances. After returning toSalerno, he was again sent out on loan in 1993, for another season long loan deal. This time, Iuliano moved toAC Monza He would go on to make 16 appearances for the club. After two impressive loan spells inBologna andMonza, Iuliano returned toSalernitana Calcio, and became a regular starter after his return, making over 85 appearances, and scoring a single goal, playing both as a centre back and as a full back.
After greatly impressing in his second spell withSalernitana, Iuliano caught the eye of several major scouts, most notably those ofSerie A giantsJuventus. In July 1996, Iuliano transferred to theTurin based outfit, and was a big hit right from the start, as Juventus continued theirSerie A and European dominance. He made hisSerie A début on 15 September 1996, 2–1 win overCagliari Calcio. In his first season with Juventus he played in 21 league games scoring a single goal in a 1–1 away draw againstAtalanta on 23 May 1997, which saw Juventus claim theleague title that season.[5][6]
During the1997–98 season, Iuliano also became widely known for a controversial episode in Juventus'sDerby d'Italia match in Turin againstInter on 26 April 1998, involvingRonaldo:[5] a collision that occurred between the two players in the Juventus penalty area, which saw both players go to ground, led the Inter players to claim what they felt to be a clear penalty for a tackle of obstruction, but the referee let the play continue as the players continued to protest; to add to the controversy, Juventus were awarded a contested penalty only thirty seconds later.[7][8] Although Juventus did not convert the penalty successfully, they still ended up winning the match 1–0,[7] and went on to win the league title mathematically two days later, following a 3–2 home win againstBologna, with Inter finishing in second place.[9] Following the match, the referee who had officiated the game,Piero Ceccarini, also came out publicly and stated that he had made a mistake, and that he should have called the foul and assigned a penalty to Inter for the challenge, although that, at the time, he did not witness the entire play that led to the incident, only the collision between the two players, which drew further criticism from the press.[10] Up to this day, the incident has therefore acquired a degree of infamy, and is still widely debated in the Italian media, and often cited in newspapers. When asked about the episode in a 2009 interview, however, Ceccarini changed his view and said that in hindsight he would have not awarded a penalty, but instead an indirect free kick to Inter inside the penalty area for obstruction.[7] In an even more recent interview with the newspaperIl Tirreno in 2016, however, Ceccarini later further clarified, "From the images it is clear that Ronaldo runs into Iuliano, not vice versa: as a matter of fact, the Juventus player falls backwards, resulting from the impact of Ronaldo running into him. I was on the pitch, a few meters away. The intention of the defender was to stop the attacker's progression, but the attacker moved the ball and the defender did not follow it. Iuliano was stationary at the moment of contact, there are no doubts about this. I toldPagliuca (Inter's goalkeeper) that in basketball this would be an offensive foul. Perhaps I ought to have whistled a foul in favour of Juventus".[11] In a 2015 interview, when Iuliano was asked about the incident, he stated that he felt that a penalty should not have been awarded, but that due to the speed at which the collision occurred, it was not immediately obvious what the correct decision should have been, and that it was also possible that an offensive foul could have been given against Inter.[5]
Iuliano would become an eventual starter for the club the following season, but was hampered by injuries in the 1999–2000 season, limiting him to just 20 appearances. Juventus had what was considered by some pundits to be one of, if not the best defence in the world at this time, and were known for their ability to concede very few goals, which made the side particularly effective in closely contested matches. Iuliano formed impressive defensive partnerships with the likes ofCiro Ferrara,Moreno Torricelli,Paolo Montero,Gianluca Pessotto,Lilian Thuram,Alessandro Birindelli,Igor Tudor,Gianluca Zambrotta,Nicola Legrottaglie, andFabio Cannavaro during his 10-year tenure with the club. After the 2004–2005Serie A triumph, veteran teammatesPaolo Montero andCiro Ferrara called it quits on their Juventus career (this title was later revoked following Juventus's involvement in the 2006Calciopoli scandal). TheUruguayan opted to return to his homeland, while Iuliano remained, but in January 2005, he left for La Liga sideRCD Mallorca on free transfer after having not played regularly in the first portion season. Iuliano made well over 200 total appearances fori bianconeri, scoring nearly 15 goals.[12] During his time at Juventus, Iuliano won fourSerie A titles, anIntercontinental Cup, aUEFA Super Cup and threeItalian Supercups, also reaching threeUEFA Champions League finals (in1997,1998, and2003) and twoCoppa Italia finals (in2002 and2004).
Iuliano transferred toRCD Mallorca in the SpanishLa Liga in the summer of 2005 after 10 years with Juventus. He would remain at the club for only one season however, despite a fairly decent season starting 29 total games and scoring 4 goals.
Iuliano returned to Italy in January 2006, by transferring toSerie A club,UC Sampdoria. He remained at theGenoa based club for just a mere six months, before a July transfer away fromLiguria after making just four appearances in the league.
After a disappointing period withSampdoria, Iuliano moved toSicilian clubFC Messina Peloro in the summer of 2006. After two consecutive fairly impressiveSerie A seasons,Messina failed to avoid relegation in the 2006–2007Serie A season. Iuliano made a total of 24 appearances for the club between theCoppa Italia and theSerie A, and scored 1 goal. Following Messina's relegation toSerie B, Iuliano's contract was not renewed, and hence he became afree agent on 1 July 2007.
Iuliano was unable to find a club during the 2007 summer transfer window, and was linked with a return to former club Juventus, following their re-building of the club's squad. This news turned out to be just rumours, as the deal never took off, and Iuliano remained a free agent for the next 6 months. After those 6 months without a club, he signed forSerie B sideRavenna Calcio in January 2008. The veteran was instantly inserted into the starting eleven, and picked up good form before he failed a doping test after playing forRavenna Calcio in aSerie B match againstAC Cesena, in May 2008. After being found positive forcocaine he was successively disqualified for two years.
After this series of events, Iuliano opted to call it quits on his career and officially retired from professional football in March 2012; he was 38 years old.
Iuliano was a regular in theItaly national team setup during the peak of his career as he earned his first call-up in 1998 and received his last cap in 2003. He appeared for the Italy national team atUEFA Euro 2000, where Italy finished in second place, and at the2002 FIFA World Cup. He would make 19 total international appearances, scoring one goal for his country. His debut came on 5 September 1998 againstWales. He scored his only international goal againstPortugal on 26 April 2000.[13]
Regarded as one of the best and most consistent Italian defenders of his generation, Iuliano was a large, tenacious, and physically strong defender, who excelled in the air, and who was an accomplished man-marker and an experienced tackler; he usually played as acentre-back, although he was a tactically versatile player, who was also capable of playing as afull-back.[14][15][16]
After retirement, Iuliano took a role as youth coach for theAllievi Nazionali atPavia in 2012.
In July 2014, Iuliano was appointed youth coach at Serie B clubLatina. On 5 January 2015, he was promoted head coach in place ofRoberto Breda, with the goal to save the club from relegation.[17] He was sacked in November 2015.
On 26 May 2017, he was appointed hasComo head coach.[citation needed]
On 26 July 2017, Iuliano reached an agreement with AlbanianAlbanian Superliga clubFK Partizani Tirana to becomeThe Reds new head coach.[citation needed]
On 24 April 2018, he was appointed new assistant coach ofUdinese alongside new head coachIgor Tudor.[18]
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