User:Giustizia~enwiki/Lucio (Lou) Sticca

Lucio (Lou) Sticca (born 2 June 1960) is a well known FIFA Licensed Player and Match Agent.

Sticca was originally founder and Chief Executive of Melbourne based National Soccer League Club called Carlton Soccer Club in 1997. Under Sticca Carlton Soccer Club lured former Red Star Belgrade and Anderlecht champion striker Eddie Krncevic as head coach in their inaugural season. Sticca and Krncevic then set Australian soccer alight with their prudent identification of some of the best young talent on the Australian scene for decades by luring youngsters Vince Grella and Marco Bresciano to Carlton. In a matter of months these two young players went from obscurity to playing for Australia at international level. Grella and Bresciano were then sold to Empoli in Italy and since then they have gone onto play at the 2006 World Cup as well as forge massive careers in Italy and in Grella's case now also in England.

In 2000 Sticca moved to the other side of the desk and became a FIFA Agent. Since then Sticca has worked with Australian players like Patrick Kisnorbo (ex Hearts, Leicester and now with Leeds FC), Scott McDonald (ex Southampton, Motherwell and now Celtic FC) Kazumiura (ex Reggina. FC Yokohama and Sydney FC), Benito Carbone (ex Inter, Bradford, Sheffield Wednesday, Sydney FC) and many more.

in 2005 Sydney FC recruited Sticca to build their inaugural football team and coaching staff for the new A-League in Australia. Sticca attracted former German World Cup winner Pierre Littbarski as head coach and former Tottenham and Norwich City defender Ian Crook as Littbarski's assistant. Perhaps Sticca's greatest coup was signing former Manchester United legend Dwight Yorke to the Sky Blues in 2005.

In their inaugural season Sydney FC;

- toured Dubai in 2005 for pre season - won 2005 A-League pre season competition - won 2005 Oceania FIFA Club World Championship - participated in 2005 FIFA Club World Championships in Tokyo Japan - won inaugural A-League Championship in 2005

As a Match Agent Sticca arranged massively successful tours to Australia for David Beckham and Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007 and then Celtic FC to Brisbane in 2009.

Sticca has been known to make some controversial media statements in his time such as;

- threatening to sue Manchester United over vicious tackle by their striker Cole on Simon Colosimo - saying that former Carlton star John Markovski was padlocked out from returning to Carlton

Apart from all the above Sticca also has business interests in leading international football website www.tribalfootball.com