Lisca · Biography

Luiz Carlos Cirne Lima de Lorenzi won his first title as a senior coach in 2009, leading Porto Alegre Futebol Clube to the second division of the Campeonato Gaúcho with a 2-0 win over Pelotas in the final on 23 August. Born on 11 August 1972 in Porto Alegre, Lisca, nicknamed «Lisca Doido» («Crazy Lisca») for his exuberant touchline celebrations, built a coaching career that took him to clubs in almost every region of Brazil, among them Ceará, América Mineiro, Vasco, Santos and Botafogo-PB.

An Internacional family and youth football

Lisca is the great-grandson of Carlos de Lorenzi and the grandson of Jorge de Lorenzi, both goalkeepers for Internacional. He played as a forward in the club's youth teams himself, but gave up football at 17 to focus on his studies and never played professionally. In 1990 he began coaching in Internacional's academy. In 1995 he moved to São Paulo's youth set-up, where he won the state under-15 title, and in 1996 he returned to Internacional. At Beira-Rio he collected the state youth titles of 1997, 1998 and 1999, the national youth championship in 1998 and the state junior title in 2002.

First jobs in professional football

His first job in charge of a senior side came in 2001 at Ulbra. Brasil de Pelotas followed in 2007 and Juventude in 2008, before the title with Porto Alegre in 2009. With Luverdense he won the Copa Governador de Mato Grosso and the Copa Pantanal in 2011, and back at Juventude in 2012 he lifted that year's Copa FGF. He also coached Caxias and Novo Hamburgo. In December 2013 Náutico appointed him, and he took them to the final of the 2014 Campeonato Pernambucano after a semi-final won on penalties. He coached Sampaio Corrêa in the second half of 2014 and returned to Náutico in March 2015.

Ceará and Internacional

In September 2015 he took over Ceará in Série B, tasked with pulling the team clear of the relegation zone, and he did so. In 2016 he won the Taça Asa Branca with the club and left the post in March of that year. After a short spell at Joinville, Internacional hired him on 18 October 2016, with the team already in the Série A relegation places, and he could not prevent the drop. In 2017 he worked at Paraná and at Guarani, whom he kept in Série B, and at the end of that year he had a brief stint at Criciúma.

He returned to Ceará in June 2018 with the side bottom of Série A. The team, which spent 27 rounds in the relegation zone, finished the championship 15th with 44 points and sealed survival in round 38 with a goalless draw against Vasco in front of a full Castelão. Lisca stayed at the club until April 2019.

América Mineiro, Vasco and 2022

Hired by América Mineiro in January 2020, he had the standout season of his career there. In the 2020 Copa do Brasil, the team knocked out Corinthians and Internacional, the latter 6-5 on penalties, and reached the semi-finals of the competition for the first time, where they lost to Palmeiras, who won 2-0 in Belo Horizonte on 30 December. In the same campaign América secured promotion to Série A with games to spare. Lisca left the club in June 2021.

On 20 July 2021 he took charge of Vasco in Série B and resigned on 8 September, two days after a 3-1 defeat to Avaí, with the team ninth. In 2022 he coached three clubs in succession: Sport, between June and July; Santos, from 20 July to 12 September, for eight matches; and Avaí, who announced him a day after he left Santos, where he started with a win over Atlético Mineiro and departed in October after six straight defeats in Série A.

Vila Nova, a return to América and Botafogo-PB

In September 2023 Vila Nova hired him in Série B, and he lasted less than a month in the job. He returned to América Mineiro on 28 August 2024 for the closing stretch of Série B and left in November, once the team's promotion hopes were mathematically over. On 2 February 2026 he took over Botafogo-PB and in March won the 2026 Campeonato Paraibano, beating Sousa 2-1 in the first leg of the final and drawing 0-0 in the second leg on 21 March, ending a run without a state title for the club that dated back to 2019. Lisca left Botafogo-PB on 28 April 2026 after 16 matches.