Cesare Prandelli
Prandelli managing Italy in 2012
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Cesare Claudio Prandelli | ||
| Date of birth | 19 August 1957 | ||
| Place of birth | Orzinuovi, Brescia, Italy | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| 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) |
| Total | 323 | (17) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1990–1997 | Atalanta (youth) | ||
| 1993–1994 | Atalanta (caretaker) | ||
| 1997–1998 | Lecce | ||
| 1998–2000 | Verona | ||
| 2000–2001 | Venezia | ||
| 2002–2004 | Parma | ||
| 2004 | Roma | ||
| 2005–2010 | Fiorentina | ||
| 2010–2014 | Italy | ||
| 2014 | Galatasaray | ||
| 2016 | Valencia | ||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Cesare Claudio Prandelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtʃeːzare pranˈdɛlli]; born 19 August 1957) is an Italian football coach and former player.
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.
In total, Prandelli played in 197 Serie A matches.
Prandelli began his managing career as youth team coach for Atalanta, achieving excellent results from 1990 to 1997, save 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 solid ninth-place finish the next year. He later spent two years with Parma, where he fully reached national glory.
Starting the 2004–05 season for 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 was stripped of its Champions League spot and started the 2006–07 season in Serie A with a 15-point deduction.
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