Roberto Landi

Date of birth:                    20th-Febr-1956

Place of birth:                   Forlì (Italy)

Experience:

19 years Professional Football Coach

16 years Professional Player (Goalkeeper)

Qualifications: UEFA Licence A Pro

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Mobile-phone: +39.340.4070018

PLAYER CARREER

Landi, a goalkeeper, joined the Piacenza youth system in 1966 and later joined the first team, then playing in Serie C1 division. He later moved to Modena as second-choice goalkeeper, and then played also for Ravenna and Siena, before to leave Italy to join the North American Soccer League in 1979, at the age of 23. During his North American time, he played for Vancouver Whitecaps and Chicago Sting, before signing for South African side Kaizer Chiefs FC, and returning in the United States with New York Cosmos in 1983. He then returned in Italy and played for a number of amateur sides before retiring at the age of 30.

PERSONAL ATTITUDES

Roberto has exceptional organizational and motivational skills. He has a rare gift that all the “great managers have”, the ability to turn average players into good players and good players into great players. His confidence in management always inspires and instils self-belief into the teams. He speaks English and has excellent communication and media skills.

COACH

Landi served as goalkeeping coach for the United States men's national soccer team during their 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cup campaigns.

From 1992 to 1995 he served as head coach of Italian amateur team Marignano.

In 1998 he became head coach of the Georgian U-21 team, and later filled the same position for the Lithuanian U-21 team in 2001.

He obtained a UEFA Pro License in 2003, and was part of Messina managing staff in their 2002–03 campaign.

In January 2005 he became head coach of National Bucharest, where he achieved a record 17 wins in a row. He left the post in September 2005, citing personal reasons, later being appointed as Qatar U-21 head coach.

He then briefly moved in Hungary, serving as FC Sopron head for three matches in the 2006–07 season before losing their local derby to Győr.

On October 2007 he was linked with the managing position at Port Vale F.C.

In June 2008 Landi was linked with Scottish First Division side Livingston, who had been bought by an Italian consortium one month earlier. He was appointed manager of the club on June 11, 2008. However after just five months in charge he and assistant Valter Berlini left the club.

In June 2009, he was unveiled as new head coach of Belgian Third Division B side R. Union Saint-Gilloise. He left the club later in December.

He was hired in spring 2011 to be the Liberia national football team manager after the illness of the previous coach.