Ricardo Lunari

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Ricardo Lunari
Full name	Ricardo Gabriel Lunari Del Federico
Date of birth	February 6, 1970 (1970-02-06) (age 38)
Place of birth	San José de La Esquina, Argentina
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-1992 1993 1994 1995 1995 1996 1996-1998 1998-1999 2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002 2003-2005	Newell's Old Boys Universidad Católica Atlas Universidad Católica Puebla Millonarios Universidad Católica Salamanca Farense Almagro Oriente Petrolero Estudiantes de Mérida Guspini	42 (8) - - - - - - - - 9 (0) - - -
Teams managed
2008	Guabirá
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 October 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Ricardo Gabriel Lunari (born February 6, 1970 in San José de La Esquina, Santa Fe) is a former Argentine footballer. He was a journeyman footballer playing for eleven clubs in nine different countries. He is currently the coach for Guabirá, a team in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.

1 Playing career
2 Titles
3 Statistics
- 3.1 Goals
- 3.2 Appearances
4 Coaching career
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Playing career

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 Chilean Primera.

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.

[edit] Titles

Season	Team	Title
1990-1991	Newell's Old Boys	Primera División Argentina
Clausura 1992^[1]	Newell's Old Boys	Primera División Argentina
1997	Universidad Católica	Chilean Primera
2001	Oriente Petrolero	Bolivian League

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Goals

Newells: 10
Universidad Catolica: 37
Atlas de Mexico: 6
Puebla: 1
Millonarios: 10
Farense: 2
Oriente Petrolero: 8
Estudiantes de Merida: 1
Guspini: 4
TOTAL:79
Copa Libertadores goals: 11

[edit] Appearances

League games: 368
Copa Libertadores games: 65

[edit] Coaching career

After retiring as a player Lunari took his coaching qualifications, he is a level 1 quilified coach in Italy and took his international coaching licence in England.