Luis Tiaguinho
Hello, I am Luis Tiaguinho. I was born in Sao Paulo on November 8th 1979. I come from a working class family. My Dad owned a boxing gym but died in a car accident 9 years ago. My mother works in a church in Sao Paulo. I joined Sao Paulo FC at the age of 11, but was let go when I was 18. I then joined Brasa FC, playing 39 games in 3 season's there. They never renewed my contract so I then joined semi-pro club Astral EC. I was there for 4 years, playing 77 games. I played as an attacking midfielder throughout my career, and was nicknamed the Brazilian Lampard at Astral. At the age of 25 at Astral I decided my career wasn't going anywhere and I was still living with my mother.
I therefore decided to go back to my first club Santos, whom I supported. They were willing to give me a coaching job, I joined as a youth coach/scout. Despite getting a job at Santos, I decided against getting my own place. Instead I came up with a plan. The plan was to save my money for 5 years and with the money I make, move to Europe. I won't go in-depth about my plan. Firsly I would complete my coaching badges. It was to then basically move to Italy, Portugal or Spain. I would then try and get into a college, where I would try and further my education, whilst applying for coaching jobs at some decent football clubs.
4 years later, aged 29 I decided to try and utilise my plan early. The country I decided to move to was Italy, Venezia specifically. Couldn't get a work permit for Spain. I quickly got into a good college over there and I decided to do Sport, Italian, English and History. I also signed as a youth coach for Padova. I also moved to Padova which isn't too far away from Venezia.
4 months later I received a phone call. I expected it to be mother, it wasn't. It was actually Fabio Oppicelli. No, I didn't recognise the name either! He is actually the chairman of Italian Serie C2/B club Carrarese. He explained about the club and their history. He said he was calling to offer me the job as manager. He told me he had been following me for a while. I was delighted to accept, and phoned Carlo Sabatini (Padova manager) to terminate my contract. He thankfully understood my decision to move on.
Carrarese
So now, here I am. Manager Carrarese. I have just been meeting the staff and getting to know everyone since I got here. The chairman said he expected me to win promotion in my first season. He also told me he would utilise extra funds should I tell everyone I could win the league. I decided against this however and settled for 110K transfer budget and a 26.5K wage budget, 13.5K of which is being used. I am quite impressed by the club in all honesty. They have some great facilities including a 15,000 all seater stadium (Dei Marmi) which is in great condition and in a fantastic location, surrounded by green land and beautiful white statues it is quite a spectacle. I have also had individual meetings with each and every player, even the young lads. I have promoted a couple of youngsters I value, to the reserves where they will get more competetive football. 99% of players fit into my plans and the team is already very organised. Only Luca Bonfanti doesn't mainly because of his age but I don't feel he has sufficient ability either. I will look to bring a few players in to improve the team though and that shouldn't be a problem with the good funds but having Serie A club Genoa as a parent club also helps.
Aim this season: Promotion
Stadio Dei Marmi:
My first day in my new job with my new suit!
Note: Please take the time to read this, I will go in some detail about Luis' life and he will have ups and downs throughout his career, thanks for following!
I will update this at about half 10
After the Liverpool game.---------- Post added at 03:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:10 AM ----------
I am really enjoying living in Italy. Only bad thing about the new manager's job is that I have to stop going to college which I was really enjoying. Really fitting into the new football club though and would love to have success here.
I met some people in college and have also somewhat got a life! I have been going to nightclubs and doing a lot of interesting stuff. Some lads I met often come round to mine to watch some football or even do stuff like play Poker. I met a couple of girls too and am looking for a relationship at the moment having been starved of women for a few months-My lack of fluently speaking the Italian language being the main obstacle although I am a pretty healthy speaker of it now!
On a side note, I am sick of Pizza
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