Luiz Carlos Cirne Lima de Lorenzi, commonly known as Lisca, is a Brazilian football manager, currently in charge of América Mineiro. He is often referred as Lisca Doido due to his extravagant celebrations.
Career
Born in Porto Alegre, Lisca never played professional football, starting a coaching career with Internacional's youth setup in 1990. In 1995, he moved to São Paulo, again assigned to the youth categories, but returned to his previous club the following year. Lisca's first experience as first teammanager came in 2001, with Ulbra. After being dismissed, he returned to the youth setup and took over Grêmio and Fluminense before returning to Inter in 2006. In 2007 Lisca was appointed Brasil de Pelotas manager. The following year he was named manager of Juventude's B-team. After managing Porto Alegre, Luverdense, Caxias and Novo Hamburgo, Lisca returned to Juventude on 30 July 2012. He left the club in December of the following year, being appointed at the helm of Série B club Náutico. Lisca resigned from Timbu on 7 May 2014, and joined Sampaio Corrêa on 22 July. He was sacked from the latter on 20 October, after being heavily criticised by the media due to the club's poor performances. Lisca returned to Náutico in March 2015, being dismissed on 8 September. Late in the month he was appointed in charge of Ceará, seriously threatened with relegation to Série C. After managing to avoid the drop, he renewed his contract for the following season on 30 November. On 28 March 2016 Lisca was sacked by Ceará, after a poor run of form. On 29 June he was appointed Joinville manager, being sacked on 16 September. On 18 November 2016, Internacional announced Lisca as their new manager, with the club having only three games in hand and being in the relegation zone. He left the club after failing to avoid the club's first-ever relegation to the second division, being replaced by Antônio Carlos Zago. On 18 July 2017, Lisca was appointed Paraná manager, but was dismissed on 2 September after altercations with the club's board and supposedly assaulting the club's assistant managerMatheus Costa. On 8 October he was named at the helm of Guarani, leaving the club in the end of the year. On 10 December 2017, Lisca was named Criciúma manager, but resigned the following 29 January after just four matches. On 4 June 2018, he returned to Ceará in the place of departing Jorginho. On 22 April 2019, after losing the year's Campeonato Cearense, Lisca was sacked. The following 30 January, he replaced Red Bull Bragantino-bound Felipe Conceição at the helm of América Mineiro.
