Massimo Battara

Massimo Battara (born 3 May 1963) is an Italian football coach and a former player, who played as a goalkeeper. He currently works as a goalkeeping coach with the Saudi Arabia national football team. He has worked with Roberto Di Matteo both at Aston Villa and at FC Schalke 04. Between 2009 until his resignation in May 2013, he was the goalkeeping coach at Manchester City.^[2]

Massimo Battara

Massimo Battara in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Massimo Battara
Date of birth	(1963-05-03) 3 May 1963 (age 62)
Place of birth	Genoa, Italy
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Saudi Arabia (Goalkeeping Coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1981–1982	Bologna
1982–1983	Viadanese
1983–1984	Sampdoria	0	(0)
1984–1985	Sambenedettese
1985–1996	Puteolana Internapoli
1986–1989	Casertana
1989–1991	Salernitana
1991–1992	US Lecce	29	(0)
1992–1993	SPAL	29	(0)
1994–1995	Sassuolo
Managerial career
1998–2000	Ittihad Jeddah FC (Goalkeeping Coach)
2001	Napoli (Goalkeeping Coach)
2001–2002	Fiorentina (Goalkeeping Coach)
2004–2008	Internazionale (Goalkeeping Coach)
2008–2009	Benevento (Goalkeeping Coach)
2009–2013	Manchester City (Goalkeeping Coach)
2014–2015	Schalke 04 (Goalkeeping Coach)
2015–2016	FC Pune City (Goalkeeping Coach)
2016	Aston Villa (Goalkeeping Coach)
2017–2018	Zenit St. Petersburg (Goalkeeping Coach)
2018–2023	Italy (Goalkeeping Coach)
2023–	Saudi Arabia (Goalkeeping Coach)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Battara has also worked at Inter Milan and with ex Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini, and joined City in December 2009 as part of Mancini's new coaching team.

He worked under David Platt in India at FC Pune City before joining Roberto Di Matteo at Aston Villa in 2016.

Honours

Manchester City

• FA Cup: 2010–11 (as goalkeeping coach)