| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | June 5, 1954 | ||
| Place of birth | Verona, Italy | ||
| Playing position | Manager | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Free Agent | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ? | Audace S. Michele | ||
| 1970 | Vicenza | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| ?–1978 | Audace S. Michele | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1990–1991 | Chievo Verona (youth coach) | ||
| 1991–1993 | Chievo Verona (assistant coach) | ||
| 1993–1997 | Chievo Verona | ||
| 1997–1998 | Fiorentina | ||
| 1998–2001 | Parma | ||
| 2001–2003 | Verona | ||
| 2003–2004 | Modena | ||
| 2005–2006 | Panathinaikos FC | ||
| 2007 | Udinese | ||
| 2007–2008 | Empoli | ||
| 2009–2010 | Siena | ||
| 2010–2011 | Bologna | ||
| 2011 | Genoa | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Alberto Malesani (born June 5, 1954 in Verona) is an Italian association football manager.
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Malesani career as player was mostly spent on a Veronese amateur team Audace S. Michele, where he obtained a promotion from Serie D to Serie C in 1976–77, appearing fourteen times on that season.[1] He retired from playing football at the age of 24, and worked at Canon in Amsterdam, where he studied the Ajax Amsterdam total football training methods.[2] His passion for coaching was so great, that on his honeymoon, he decided to go to Barcelona in order to watch Johan Cruijff's coaching sessions at Barcelona FC.
Malesani left his job at Canon in 1990 order to pursue a coaching career at Serie C1 team Chievo Verona for the Allievi youth squad. In 1991, he is assistant of head coach Carlo De Angelis in the first team, and in 1993 he becomes head coach himself. His first season as head coach ended in a historical promotion to Serie B for then-unknown Chievo Verona.
Malesani left Chievo in 1997, after three impressive Serie B seasons and a narrowly missed promotion in the Serie A league in order to become Fiorentina's boss, in what was his first stint in the Italian top flight.
A good Fiorentina season convinced Parma to appoint Malesani as new head coach in 1998, where he won a Coppa Italia, a UEFA Cup, an Italian Super Cup and obtained two fourth places before being sacked in 2000–01.
After losing his job at Parma, Malesani then coached Verona and Modena, failing to save the clubs from relegation in both cases; successively he moved abroad to coach Greek side Panathinaikos, still with little success. During coaching Panathinaikos FC, the Greek sport press was constantly criticizing his tactics. After a home draw against Iraklis FC and during the post match press conference, Malesani had an unforgettable outburst of temper [2] (very similar to Giovanni Trapattoni's during his career in FC Bayern) against the fans and journalists. Notably, he angrily attacked the journalists pronouncing 21 times the word cazzo (dick, used as an expletive in Italian).[3] He also made some unfortunate comments concerning the supporting fanbase for heavily criticizing the Vardinogiannis family (sole owners of the club at the time), although he was unaware of the long standing rivalry of the majority of the team's fans against them, blaming them for being incompetent to lead the club successfully.
Malesani was appointed coach of Udinese on January 2007, as replacement for Giovanni Galeone. He led his side to a not particularly impressive tenth place in the Serie A 2006-07 final table, only seven points far from relegation, being not confirmed for the following season. On November 27, 2007 he was unveiled as Empoli's new head coach, replacing Luigi Cagni.[4] He was axed on March 31, 2008 following a 2–0 home defeat to U.C. Sampdoria which left Empoli down in last place in the league table.[5]
On November 23, 2009 he was appointed new head coach of Siena, replacing Marco Baroni.[6] On 21 May 2010 was released by Siena.[7]
On September 1, 2010 he signed a one year contract for Bologna.[8] After a successful season which saw his club finish in 16th place, six points clear of relegation, despite a three point deduction for tax problems and running feuds over the clubs ownership, Malesani was replaced by Pierpaolo Bisoli on 26 May 2011.[9] On 19 June 2011 Genoa officially announced that Malesani would be the new first team head coach[10]. However, after Genoa was defeated 6-1 by Napoli, Malezani was fired[11].
| Preceded by Luigi Simoni |
UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1998–1999 |
Succeeded by Fatih Terim |
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