Daniele Arrigoni

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Daniele Arrigoni
Personal information
Full name	Daniele Arrigoni
Date of birth	April 8, 1959 (age 47)
Place of birth	Cesena, Italy
Playing position	Manager (former defender)
Club information
Current club	none
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1981-1984 1984-1986 1988-1989 1989-1991 1991-1992 1992-1993	Cesena Ancona Forlì Siena Monopoli Triestina	52 (2) 51 (3) 32 (2) 63 (4) 32 (2) 24 (1)
Teams managed
1994-1996 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2006-2007	Castel San Pietro Castel San Pietro Montevarchi Vis Pesaro Messina Palermo Frosinone Cagliari Livorno
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Daniele Arrigoni (born August 28, 1959 in Cesena) is an Italian football (soccer) manager.

[edit] Playing career

Arrigoni, a defender, made fifteen Serie A appearances in his first professional playing season with Cesena, and mostly played at Serie B and Serie C levels for several different teams, before retiring in 1993.

[edit] Managing career

Arrigoni's debut as coach came in 1994 for a small Emilia-Romagna Serie D team, Castel San Pietro. He then coached Vis Pesaro, where he obtained the first promotion in his coaching career (in 1999/2000, from Serie C2 to Serie C1 after playoffs), and after another impressive season he was called to coach newly-promoted Serie B team Messina. During that season, he was fired, but then recalled, and hardly managed to save his team from relegation.

In 2002/2003, Palermo hired him to replace Ezio Glerean just at the first matchday, but he was sacked as well at the twentieth. Arrigoni went on to become Serie C2's Frosinone boss in 2003/2004, leading the club to win the league.

In 2004/2005, Arrigoni was surprisingly called to coach a Serie A team, Cagliari Calcio. Also thanks to outstanding players such as Antonio Langella, Gianfranco Zola, Mauro Esposito and David Suazo, Arrigoni went on leading his team to a very good season that ended in 12th place. Arrigoni, who had left Cagliari at the end of the season in order to join Torino, then cancelled by the federation because of financial troubles, was recalled to Cagliari in 2005/2006, but resigned soon after following heavy protests from its supporters. In 2006/2007, he is coaching Livorno, with the additional opportunity to make his debut in an European competition, UEFA Cup in the case.

On 14 January 2007, Livorno chairman Aldo Spinelli declared his willingness to sack Arrigoni after his side lost 5-1 away to Atalanta B.C.. However, after the players called for his return, with captain Cristiano Lucarelli declaring "The team is united against the club", Arrigoni was re-instated on his job two days later. However, his dismissal was only delayed, as he was finally sacked on March 21 and replaced by Fernando Orsi.