Massimo Ficcadenti
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 6 November 1967 | ||
| Place of birth | Fermo, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Sagan Tosu (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985–1989 | Sambenedettese | 68 | (2) |
| 1989–1992 | Messina | 90 | (5) |
| 1992–1997 | Verona | 132 | (9) |
| 1997–2000 | Torino | 48 | (2) |
| 2000–2001 | Ravenna | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2001–2002 | Fiorenzuola | ||
| 2002 | Avellino | ||
| 2003–2004 | Pistoiese | ||
| 2004–2006 | Verona | ||
| 2007 | Reggina | ||
| 2009–2010 | Piacenza | ||
| 2010–2011 | Cesena | ||
| 2011 | Cagliari | ||
| 2012 | Cagliari | ||
| 2014–2015 | FC Tokyo | ||
| 2016– | Sagan Tosu | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 January 2016. |
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Massimo Ficcadenti (born 6 November 1967 in Fermo) is the Italian football manager and former midfielder. He's now in charge of Sagan Tosu for 2016 J1 League.
Ficcadenti started his playing career with Sambenedettese, where he played from 1985 to 1989. He then signed for Messina, playing for the Sicilian side for a total of three seasons before to join Verona in 1992. At Verona, he also had the opportunity to make his Serie A debut; he stayed with the gialloblu for a total of five seasons before moving at Torino in 1997. He left Torino for Ravenna in 2000, and retired from active football one year later to become a coach.
Ficcadenti's first coaching experience came in 2001 as boss of Serie C2 team Fiorenzuola. Ficcadenti, at the helm of a club under serious financial struggles, ended the regular season in 17th place, but later lost the relegation play-offs to Trento. Despite the Serie D relegation, his work at Fiorenzuola was praised by a number of pundits, given the circumstances, and he was successively appointed by Avellino of Serie C1, being however fired before the beginning of the season due to poor performances in the Coppa Italia Serie C and a number of friendly matches. On June 2003, he was then appointed as head coach of Pistoiese, another Serie C1 team. As well as in Fiorenzuola, Ficcadenti found a club under financial troubles, and a squad mainly composed by young and loaned players, the one with the lowest age in all the professional leagues that year; despite that, Pistoiese narrowly missed a spot in the Serie B promotion play-offs, and ended in a good 11th place.
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