Career
He is best known for saving teams from being relegated to second division. Lombardi started his playing career with Argentinos Juniors in 1981. His career was then mostly in the lower leagues of Argentine football apart from 1984 when he played a single season for Club Atlético Atlanta in the Primera Division.
After retirement, Caruso Lombardi took up coaching, initially in lower league teams.
He was then hired by Newell"s Old Boys, with which he obtained his second victory over Boca in the same 2007 Apertura tournament, beating them 1–0. On 24 February 2009, Caruso Lombardi became Racing Club"s head coach, signing a two-year contract.
After three years, on 17 December 2009, the coach returned to, replacing Diego Cagna. Caruso Lombardi has a preference towards using physically tall football players on all the positions of the field
In 2010, while coaching, he was accused by one of his players (Juan Camilo Angulo) of requesting a bribe to put him on the first team
The coach denied the truth of the accusations. On 8 March 2011, Caruso Lombardi was appointed as head coach of Quilmes, with the club languishing at the bottom of the table and fighting relegation. lieutenant is expected that he would remain in that role until his contract expired in June 2012.
After a successful spell at Quilmes, during the night of 3 April of the next season, he signed a contract with San Lorenzo de Almagro, replacing Leonardo Madelón in the charge, after their bad results.
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