Ricardo Lunari

Ricardo Lunari
Personal information
Full name	Ricardo Gabriel Lunari Del Federico
Date of birth	6 February 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth	San José de La Esquina, Argentina
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1983–1990	Newell's Old Boys
Senior career*
Years	Team
1991–1992	Newell's Old Boys
1993–1995	Universidad Católica
1994	→ Atlas (loan)
1995	Puebla
1996	Millonarios
1996–1998	Universidad Católica
1998–1999	Salamanca
2000	Farense
2000–2001	Almagro
2001–2002	Oriente Petrolero
2002	Estudiantes de Mérida
2003	Centenario
2003–2005	Guspini Calcio
Managerial career
2008	Guabirá
2008	Newell's Old Boys (assistant)
2009–2010	Chacarita Juniors (assistant)
2010	Veracruz (assistant)
2010–2011	Colón (assistant)
2012	Santiago Morning
2013	Deportes Valdivia
2013–2014	Newell's Old Boys (reserves)
2014	Newell's Old Boys
2014–2015	Millonarios
2016	Deportes Valdivia
2017	Blooming
2019	Colón FC
2021–2022	Provincial Osorno
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ricardo Gabriel Lunari Del Federico (born 6 February 1970) is an Argentine football manager and former player.

Playing career[edit]

Lunari started his career in 1991 with Newell's Old Boys in Argentina, he was a young member of two championship winning teams before moving to Chile in 1993 to play for Universidad Católica.

In his first season with UC he was part of the team that reached the final of the Copa Libertadores. He then had short spells with Atlas and Puebla in Mexico and Millonarios in Colombia before returning to UC in 1996. In 1997 the club won the National Championship. He scored the last goal in the 3–0 final match against Colo-Colo.

In 1998, he joined Spanish club Salamanca in La Liga, before moving to Portugal to play for Farense.

In 2000 Lunari returned to Argentina to play for Almagro. Towards the end of his career he played for Oriente Petrolero in Bolivia Estudiantes de Mérida in Venezuela and amateur side Guspini in Italy.

Coaching career[edit]

After retiring as a player Lunari took his coaching qualifications. He is a level 1 qualified coach in Italy, and obtained his international coaching licence in England. In March 2008, Lunari made his coaching debut with Bolivian first division club Guabirá, but after only five games into the season he resigned from his duties due to poor team performance. He later joined Fernando Gamboa as his assistant coach when he took over Newell's Old Boys in August 2008.

On 18 January 2019, Lunari was appointed as the manager of Colón FC from Montevideo, Uruguay.^[1]

From 2021 to 2022, he was in charge of Provincial Osorno in the Chilean Tercera A.^[2]

Honours[edit]

Club[edit]

Newell's Old Boys

Argentine Primera División (2): 1990–1991,
Argentine Clausura Tournament (1): Clausura 1992^[3]
Copa Libertadores (1): Runner-up 1992

Universidad Católica

Primera División de Chile (1): 1997 Apertura

Oriente Petrolero

Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano (1): 2001

References[edit]

^ OFICIAL: Colón FC, Lunari nuevo entrenador, todomercadoweb.es, 18 January 2019
^ "Ricardo Lunari dejó de ser el técnico de Provincial Osorno". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
^ Newell's Old Boys 1992 Archived 1 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine

External links[edit]

(in Spanish) Argentine Primera statistics
(in English) Ricardo Lunari at Footballdatabase

[1] OFICIAL: Colón FC, Lunari nuevo entrenador, todomercadoweb.es, 18 January 2019

[2] "Ricardo Lunari dejó de ser el técnico de Provincial Osorno". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.

[3] Newell's Old Boys 1992 Archived 1 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine

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