Vincenzo Montella
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Montella in 2016
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| Full name | Vincenzo Montella | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 June 1974 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Pomigliano d'Arco, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Milan (manager) | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1990–1995 | Empoli | 51 | (26) | ||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Genoa | 34 | (21) | ||||||||||||
| 1996–1999 | Sampdoria | 83 | (54) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2009 | Roma | 192 | (84) | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | → Fulham (loan) | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | → Sampdoria (loan) | 13 | (4) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 383 | (191) | |||||||||||||
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| 1999–2005 | Italy | 20 | (3) | ||||||||||||
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| 2009–2011 | Roma (U-15) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Roma (interim) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Catania | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Fiorentina | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Sampdoria | ||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Milan | ||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Vincenzo Montella (Italian pronunciation: [vinˈtʃɛntso monˈtɛlla]; born 18 June 1974) is a retired Italian footballer who is currently the manager of Milan.
Montella's nickname during his playing career was L'Aeroplanino ("The Little Airplane"), in reference to his small stature and trademark goal celebration, in which he spread his arms like wings. He was known as a quick, hard-working, and opportunistic striker, with an eye for goal, and has also been described as a "fine all round player, with excellent passing and dribbling skills."
Throughout his career Montella played for Italian clubs Empoli, Genoa, Sampdoria, and Roma, and also had a spell on loan in England with Fulham. He is mostly remembered for his goalscoring performances with Roma (1999–2007), where he won the Serie A title and the Supercoppa Italiana during the 2000–01 season, also later reaching the 2003 Coppa Italia Final with the club. In 2013, Montella was inducted into the A.S. Roma Hall of Fame. At international level, he made 20 appearances for Italy between 1999 and 2005, scoring 3 goals; he was notably a member of the Italian team that reached the final of UEFA Euro 2000, and he also represented his country at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Montella began his managerial career as Roma's caretaker manager in 2011, later coaching Catania the following season. In 2012, he moved to Fiorentina, where he spent three seasons, leading the club to three consecutive fourth-place league finishes, the 2014 Coppa Italia Final, and the UEFA Europa League semi-finals in 2015. After a season-long spell with Sampdoria, he was appointed Milan's manager in 2016, and later that year, he won his first title as a coach with the club, the Supercoppa Italiana.
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