Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 7 May 1964 | ||
Place of birth | Ascoli Piceno, Italy | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Ascoli | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1981–1987 | Ascoli | 81 | (9) |
1987–1989 | Verona | 47 | (1) |
1989–1994 | Fiorentina | 126 | (2) |
1994–1996 | Palermo | 62 | (1) |
1996–1997 | Ravenna | 31 | (1) |
1997–2000 | Venezia | 65 | (0) |
2000–2001 | Alessandria | 14 | (0) |
Total | 426 | (14) | |
Teams managed | |||
2001–2002 | Venezia | ||
2002–2003 | Cesena | ||
2003–2004 | Vicenza | ||
2004–2007 | Piacenza | ||
2007–2008 | Chievo | ||
2009–2010 | Brescia | ||
2011 | Brescia | ||
2011–2012 | Sampdoria | ||
2012–2013 | Siena | ||
2013–2015 | Palermo | ||
2016 | Palermo | ||
2016 | Udinese | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Giuseppe Iachini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe jaˈkini]; born 7 May 1964) is an Italian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder; he was last in charge of Italian club Udinese.
Iachini was born in Ascoli Piceno. He started his playing career at Ascoli, and made his Serie A and professional debut during the 1981–82 season, at the age of 17. He played for Ascoli until 1987, when he signed for Verona.
In 1989, Iachini moved to Fiorentina and played five seasons with the viola, four of them in Serie A. From 1994 to 1996 he played for Palermo of Serie B. After a single Serie B season with Ravenna, in 1997 Iachini transferred to Venezia, where he played for three years, two of them in Serie A. He retired in 2001, after a Serie C1 season with Alessandria.
As a player, he represented the Italy Olympic side at the 1988 Summer Olympics at international level, where they finished in fourth place.
Iachini started his coaching career in October 2001, when he was called to coach Venezia of Serie A, despite not being in possession of a coaching license yet. Assisted by "official" head coach Alfredo Magni, Iachini left his position as assistant coach at Piacenza in order to join Venezia, in spite of the Italian football regulation laws, and was successively disqualified for six months because of that. In the end, Venezia were relegated to Serie B.