

Mauricio Ricardo Taricco (born 10 March 1973) is an Argentine professional football coach and former player who was most recently the assistant coach of K League 1 side Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.
Taricco, whose father was Italian and hailed from Sardinia, was as a full-back capable of playing as right or left back who initially played from 1993 to 2004. He began his career in his native Argentina for Argentinos Juniors before transferring to England, where he spent the next ten years representing Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United. He suffered a hamstring injury on his debut for West Ham and agreed to cancel his contract after the game, retiring from professional football. He later played for Italian lower league sides Villasimius and Castiadas, before later joining Brighton & Hove Albion as an assistant manager to Gus Poyet in 2009. He also resumed his professional playing career at Brighton for the 2010–11 season, before retiring for a second time at the end of the 2012–13 season.
He would go on to follow Poyet to Sunderland, AEK Athens, Real Betis, Shanghai Shenhua, Bordeaux, the Greece national team and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.
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1993-1994 (21 apps) |
1994-1998 (137 apps) |
1998-2004 (130 apps) |
2004 (1 apps) |
2010-2012 |






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