Gianluca Pagliuca
Sampdoria was the first stop on a long journey for Pagliuca, who would go on to be regard as one of the finest Italian goalkeepers of his time.
He joined Inter two years later, staying at the club for the next seven seasons. He would preside over goal for Inter’s infamous loss in the 1997 UEFA Cup, only to redeem himself and the team in captaining the 3-0 win over Lazio in the final just one season later.
The bulk of his professional appearances would ultimately come during his time with Bologna. He would retire with Ascoli in 2007.
Srecko Katanec
The Slovenian centre-back was two years away from his retirement when Sampdoria lost the 1992 European Cup. Among his last accomplishments as a player was capturing the Coppa Italia in 1994.
He would quickly transition into coaching, first in Slovenia’s youth setup then for the country’s first team from 1998 to 2002.
Subsequent management jobs were split almost evenly between national teams - Macedonia and United Arab Emirates - and club teams. He would return to coach Slovenia in 2013, a role that he continues to hold.
Marco Lanna
Though his first stint with Sampdoria was also winding down upon the European Cup loss, Lanna would go on to have a successful club career for the next decade.
He left Sampdoria in 1993 to join Roma, where he would enjoy modest success over the next four seasons. Four more years split between Salamanca and Real Zaragoza preceded a brief return to Sampdoria for the final season of his career in 2001/02.
Pietro Vierchowod
By the time Vierchowod left Sampdoria in 1995, he had accumulated a total of 384 appearances for the club. His 562 total Serie A appearances by the time he retired in 2000 are the fifth most in the history of the league.
Prior to retiring, Vierchowod’s move to Juventus proved fruitful. Five seasons after failing to win against Barcelona, Vierchowod would win the Champions League with the Bianconeri.
Brief forays into the coaching - to Catania, Fiorentina, Tiestina and Hungarian side Budapest Honved - have all ended in him being sacked before the end of his first season in charge.
Moreno Mannini
Like Vierchowod, Mannini’s commitment to Sampdoria was more than evident.
The full-back would record 404 appearances in total for the club, a good amount of which came in the seven seasons he spent there after the 1992 loss.
Mannini would leave Sampdoria when they were relegated from Serie A in 1999, briefly joining English side Nottingham Forest before retiring from the sport in 2000.
Ivano Bonetti
The loss to Barcelona came nearly dead center in Bonetti’s playing career. He stayed on at Sampdoria for one more season before departing for the team he left to join Sampdoria in 1990 - Bologna - despite the fact that they were playing in Serie C1.
He would return to the Italian top flight briefly before moving to England in 1995. His stint at Grimsby Town made him something of a folk hero to the club’s fans, when he left at the end of the 1995/96 season after teammate Brian Laws threw a plate of chicken wings at Bonetti, breaking his cheekbone.
He would return to Italy to play for Genoa and Sestrese before concluding his playing career as player-manager at Dundee and then became director of football for six years at Pescina Valle del Giovenco before the club went out of business.
Toninho Cerezo
After six seasons spent at the club, the cup loss would be among Toninho Cerezo’s last acts as a part of Sampdoria.
The highly regarded Brazilian midfield destroyer returned to his homeland thereafter, though only featured in a handful of matches for various clubs over the concluding five years of his career.
A career in coaching soon followed, most notably with two successful stints at Japanese side Kashima Antlers.
Fausto Pari
By the time of the 1992 final, Pari was almost 30 years old. His career was far from over, though.
The summer following the loss, Pari left for Napoli. He would spend the next four seasons with the Partenopei before making moves to Piacenza, SPAL, Modena and Forli.
He would retire at the latter club in 2001.
Attilio Lombardo
Few players can match Lombardo’s claim to three Serie A titles with three separate teams. The first came with Sampdoria in 1990/91, while the other two came after his departure from the club in 1995.
Though his time with the Juventus was marred by injuries, he still claimed the Serie A title the club won during his second and last season with the club.
Following an overseas adventure with English side Crystal Palace, Lombardo returned to play a part in Lazio’s title winning campaign of 1999/2000. He would end his playing career back at Sampdoria, though.
Since then he’s pursuing a career in coaching, most recently in a series of assistant roles for Manchester City, Galatasaray and Schalke.
Roberto Mancini
Lombardo found a familiar face when he moved to Lazio. Mancini had stayed on with Sampdoria for five more seasons before moving to Sven Goran Eriksson’s Lazio side in 1997.
The Italian international got a head start on his coaching career under Eriksson, mostly functioning as an assistant even as he remained on Lazio’s roster for their Serie A title year in 2000.
He would formally begin to manage with Fiorentina in 2001 before taking over for Lazio two seasons later. The Iesi native’s career really began to reach a boil ever his four season stint at Inter, which preceded his successful move to newly-rich Manchester City in 2009.
These days he finds himself out of work after parting ways with Inter on the eve of the 2016/16 Serie A season.
Gianluca Vialli
The Cup final was the last act of a prolific, 249 appearance, 100 goal career at Sampdoria for Vialli. He would move on Juventus that summer before ending his playing career at Chelsea in 1999.
When Ruud Gullit was sacked at Chelsea in 1998, Vialli was promoted to player-manager for the club, thus becoming the first Italian to manage in the Premier League. He would stay on board with the club until 2000, then taking the helm at Watford for the 2001/02 season.
Management evidently didn’t suit Vialli particularly well, but he’s since found a third career in match commentary. He’s worked with both Sky Italia and the BBC since his stint as a pundit began.The post Where Are They Now: Sampdoria’s 1992 European Cup finalists appeared first on GazzettaWorld.