Corrado Orrico
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Corrado Orrico is an Italian
Italy
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 football
Football (soccer)
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 coach
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, best known for coaching Inter Milan
F.C. Internazionale Milano
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 in 1991–92.

Career

Orrico started his coaching career by serving as head in a number of minor division clubs in his native Tuscany, and he gained popularity after guiding Lucchese
A.S. Lucchese-Libertas
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Football Club Lucca 2011 is an Italian football club, based in Lucca, Tuscany that currently plays in Eccellenza Tuscany.The club was founded in 1905 and having last been in Serie A in 1952....

 to impressive results in the Italian Serie B
Serie B
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, narrowly missing a historic promotion in the top-flight; such results led Internazionale
F.C. Internazionale Milano
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 chairman Ernesto Pellegrini to appoint him as new head coach for the 1991–92 season as a replacement for Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni
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, who had just won the scudetto with the nerazzurri side. One of his first moves was to assign the #5 shirt to German
Germany national football team
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 captain Lothar Matthäus
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, instead of his usual #8. However, his career at Inter turned out to be extremely unsatisfactory and he was sacked after a few games in the national league and a disappointing UEFA Cup campaign, ended with an early elimination by Boavista FC
Boavista FC
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. His position was taken by Luis Suárez
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.

He then coached with little success a number of minor league teams, mostly from his native Tuscany
Tuscany
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. In 2008 he marked his football comeback, accepting an offer from Serie C2
Serie C2
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 team Prato
A.C. Prato
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. He left Carrarese in June 2009, after his son committed suicide; his dead body was found by Corrado Orrico himself.
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