Cesare Prandelli

Cesare Prandelli
Personal information
Full name Cesare Claudio Prandelli
Date of birth 19 August 1957 (1957-08-19) (age 54)
Place of birth Orzinuovi, Italy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1974–1978 Cremonese 88 (7)
1978–1979 Atalanta 27 (3)
1979–1985 Juventus 89 (0)
1985–1990 Atalanta 119 (7)
Teams managed
1990–1993 Atalanta (youth coach)
1993–1994 Atalanta
1994–1997 Atalanta (youth coach)
1997–1998 Lecce
1998–2000 Verona
2000–2001 Venezia
2002–2004 Parma
2004 Roma
2005–2010 Fiorentina
2010– Italy
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Cesare Claudio Prandelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtʃɛzare pranˈdɛlli]; born 19 August 1957 in Orzinuovi, province of Brescia) is an Italian football coach and former player. He is currently the manager of the Italy national football team.

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Playing career

Prandelli was a midfielder who moved from Atalanta to Juventus in 1979. His first game for Juventus was in the 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup against Raba ETO Gyor. He played six seasons with Juventus, with his final game in the 1984–85 Coppa Italia against Milan.[1]

In total, Prandelli played in 197 Serie A matches.[1]

Coaching career

Prandelli started his managing career as youth team coach for Atalanta. He coached Atalanta's youth squad with excellent results from 1990 to 1997, except for a seven-months parenthesis, from November 1993 to June 1994, in which he served as caretaker for the first team, then relegated to Serie B. After a poor 1997–98 Serie A campaign as Lecce head coach ended in a sacking in January 1998, Prandelli headed Hellas Verona for two seasons, leading the gialloblu to an immediate promotion to Serie A, and then to a very good ninth place the next year. He later spent two years with Parma,[2][3] where he fully reached national glory.

Starting the 2004–05 season for AS Roma, he left the team because of personal problems involving his wife, with her being seriously ill.

Prandelli joined Fiorentina as manager in the summer of 2005. His first season in Tuscany proved to be a huge success, as Prandelli transformed Fiorentina from relegation strugglers into a team worthy of a UEFA Champions League spot, finishing the season in fourth place. Unfortunately for Fiorentina and Prandelli however, as a result of the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal, Fiorentina were stripped of their Champions League spot and started the 2006–07 season in Serie A with a 15 point deduction.[4]

The next year, despite the points deduction, Prandelli was able to guide Fiorentina to a 6th place finish in Serie A (with the same point tally as 5th placed Palermo), securing UEFA Cup qualification for the 2007–08 season. The team did very well in the competition, losing the penalty shootout against Rangers in the semi-final. In Serie A, the team finished fourth after winning a long race against Milan, earning a ticket to participate in the UEFA Champions League. His wife died during the season, making Prandelli's efforts all the more impressive.

For his work in the 2007–08 season, Prandelli was awarded the Serie A Coach of the Year at the "Oscar del calcio" awards in early 2009. He later managed to get Fiorentina into the group phase, after defeating SK Slavia Praha in the third qualifying round, and also guided Fiorentina to another fourth place spot, this time winning competition to Genoa (who ended the season with the same points as Fiorentina, but were classified at fifth due to head-to-head results) and a second consecutive participation in the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds. After the departure of Carlo Ancelotti, Prandelli's tenure as Fiorentina became the longest of all incumbent Serie A managers.

In 2009, Prandelli surpassed Fulvio Bernardini as the longest serving manager in Fiorentina history, and guided the viola to a historic qualification in the round of 16 of the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, where they were controversially eliminated by Bayern Munich (who later went on to qualify to the final) through the away goals rule. However, Prandelli did not manage to repeat such successes at the domestic stage, with things being made even more complex by his key player Adrian Mutu being suspended due to doping-related issues. Fiorentina ended the 2009–10 Serie A in eleventh place, well far from the top spots of the league.

On 20 May 2010 Fiorentina confirmed that Prandelli was given permission to hold talks with Italian Football Federation president Giancarlo Abete to replace Marcello Lippi as head coach of the Italian national team after the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[5][6] On 30 May, the Italian Football Federation publicly announced that Prandelli will take over from Lippi at the head of the Azzurri after the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[7] His official debut arrived on 10 August 2010, in a friendly match against Ivory Coast at the Boleyn Ground, finishing in a 0–1 defeat.[8]

Then, during the 2012 Euro Qualifiers, Italy came back from behind to defeat Estonia 2-1. Italy's mtach against Serbia was plagued by crowd trouble and UEFA subsequently awarded Italy a 3-0 victory, putting them in pole position of their group. On March 25. 2011, Italy recorded a 1-0 win over Slovenia to secure their spot at the top of the qualification table. Before the Slovenia game, Prandelli said: “The moment has come for us to have faith in the former greats of our football and learn from them”. “My instruction is to work, work, work and I sincerely believe in rebuilding" he continued. “I don’t think it’s incredible the huge number of talents that Slovenia are producing, nothing is incredible if you program and cultivate your ideas about football.”[9]

Personal life

Cesare Prandelli was married to Manuela Caffi, a woman he had met in his hometown of Orzinuovi when he was 18 and she was 15. They married in 1982, with footballers Antonio Cabrini and Domenico Pezzolla witnessing the event, and they had two children named Carolina and Nicolò. In 2001, Prandelli's wife was diagnosed breast cancer; her worsening health conditions led Prandelli to resign from his coaching post at Roma only days after his signing.[10] After a short recovery, her conditions aggravated and she died on 26 November 2007 in Florence. On 29 November Fiorentina travelled to Athens to play Greek side AEK Athens, with Prandelli's assistant Gabriele Pin deputizing for him. The Fiorentina team attended Prandelli's wife's funeral along with her personal friends. The team was shaken by the turn of events.

On July 2009 his son Niccolò entered into football as well, after being hired by Parma F.C. as fitness coach.[11]

Honours

Player

U.S. Cremonese

Juventus

Manager

Hellas Verona FC 1903

Venezia

References

  1. ^ a b "Cesare Claudio Prandelli". Players. Myjuve.it. http://www.myjuve.it/players-juventus/cesare_claudio-prandelli-97.aspx. Retrieved 25 October 2011. 
  2. ^ "Parma turn to Prandelli". UEFA.com. 2002-05-16. http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=ita/news/newsid=23843.html. Retrieved 2010-04-09. 
  3. ^ "Prandelli extends Parma deal". UEFA.com. 2002-12-12. http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=ita/news/newsid=46465.html. Retrieved 2010-04-09. 
  4. ^ "WORLD CUP 2010: Marcello Lippi to be replaced by Fiorentina boss Cesare Prandelli". Mail. 30 May 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1282744/WORLD-CUP-2010-Marcello-Lippi-replaced-Fiorentina-boss-Cesare-Prandelli.html. Retrieved 1 April 2011. 
  5. ^ "COMUNICATO STAMPA" (in Italian). Viola Channel (ACF Fiorentina). 2010-05-20. http://it.violachannel.tv/dettaglio-ultimora/items/comunicato-stampa.4295.html. Retrieved 2010-05-20. 
  6. ^ "Fiorentina manager Pirandelli offered Italy job". BBC Sport (BBC). 2010-05-20. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8695718.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-20. 
  7. ^ "Dopo i Campionati del Mondo Cesare Prandelli sulla panchina azzurra" (in Italian). figc.it (Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio). 2010-05-30. http://www.figc.it/it/204/24814/2010/05/News.shtml. Retrieved 2010-05-30. 
  8. ^ "Italy 0–1 Ivory Coast". ESPNsoccernet (ESPN). 2010-08-10. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=296245&cc=5739. Retrieved 2010-08-19. 
  9. ^ "Italy coach Cesare Prandelli claims he is prepared to help Mario Balotelli fulfil his potential.". SportsYour (SportsYour). 2011-03-25. http://www.sportsyour.com/italy-coach-cesare-prandelli-claims-he-is-prepared-to-help-mario-balotelli-fulfil-his-potential/. Retrieved 2011-03-25. 
  10. ^ "La mia vita senza Manuela tra il calcio, i figli e Dio" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 2008-02-27. http://www.repubblica.it/2008/02/sezioni/persone/prandelli-inte/prandelli-inte/prandelli-inte.html. Retrieved 2010-05-20. 
  11. ^ "Parma, il figlio di Prandelli nello staff di Marino". CalcioNews24. 2010-07-02. http://www.calcionews24.com/parma-il-figlio-di-prandelli-nello-staff-di-marino.html. Retrieved 2010-07-02. 
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