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Gianluca Petrachi
Personal information
Full name	Gianluca Petrachi
Date of birth	14 January 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	Lecce, Italy
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Roma (sporting director)
Youth career
	Lecce
Senior career*
Years	Team
1986–1988	Lecce
1988–1989	Nola
1989–1990	Taranto
1990–1991	Arezzo
1991–1993	Fidelis Andria
1993–1994	Venezia
1994	Torino
1994–1995	Palermo
1995–1997	Cremonese
1997–1998	Ancona
1998–1999	Perugia
1999–2001	Nottingham Forest
2000–2001	→ Perugia (loan)
2002–2003	Taranto
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gianluca Petrachi (born 14 January 1969) is a retired Italian footballer, and former sporting director of Serie A club Roma.

Playing career edit

A central midfielder, he began his career at hometown club Lecce, and played in the Serie A with Torino, Cremonese and A.C. Perugia Calcio, and also played in England for Nottingham Forest. Other clubs he played for include Nola, Taranto, Arezzo, Fidelis Andria, Venezia, Palermo and Ancona.

Managerial career edit

After retiring as a footballer, he returned to Ancona as a team manager.

In 2006 he was named technical area manager of Pisa, being successively promoted to director of football in the summer of 2007. He was instrumental in choosing Piero Braglia as head coach and providing the playing squad that won promotion from Serie C to Serie B, and then narrowly missing on a second consecutive promotion to Serie A the following season under the tenure of Gian Piero Ventura; he left Pisa in September 2008.

Torino edit

In December 2009, he was hired at Torino as an assistant to director of football Rino Foschi, then replacing him for good only one month later. Among his successes with the Granata, he achieved a promotion to Serie A in 2011, a UEFA Europa League qualification in 2014 (both under head coach Gian Piero Ventura, who then went on to coach the Italy national football team), and yet another UEFA Europa League spot in 2019; during his nine years in charge of transfer duties, many Torino players also managed to successfully break into the Italy national team, including Danilo D'Ambrosio, Matteo Darmian, Ciro Immobile and Andrea Belotti.

Roma edit

On 25 June 2019, Roma appointed Gianluca Petrachi as their new sporting director after reaching an agreement with Serie A rivals Torino. Petrachi signed a three-year deal to succeed Frederic Massara, who filled the role following Monchi's exit in March. The 50-year-old officially began his new role with Roma on 1 July 2019.^[1]