Cesare Prandelli

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Cesare Prandelli
Personal information
Full name Claudio Cesare Prandelli
Date of birth August 19, 1957 (1957-08-19) (age 50)
Place of birth    Orzinuovi, Italy
Playing position Manager
Club information
Current club Fiorentina
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1974-1978
1978-1979
1979-1985
1985-1990		 Cremonese
Atalanta
Juventus
Atalanta		 88 (4)
27 (1)
89 (0)
89 (1)   
Teams managed
1990-1993
1993-1994
1994-1997
1997-1998
1998-2000
2000-2001
2002-2004
2004
2005-		 Atalanta (youth coach)
Atalanta
Atalanta (youth coach)
Lecce
Verona
Venezia
Parma
AS Roma
Fiorentina

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Claudio Cesare Prandelli (born 19 August 1957 in Orzinuovi, province of Brescia) is an Italian football coach, currently of ACF Fiorentina, and former player.

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[edit] Playing career

Prandelli, a midfielder, started his playing career for Cremonese in 1974. He then moved to Atalanta in 1978, and then Juventus in 1979. He played six seasons with Juventus, winning the Serie A championship for three times. He returned to Atalanta in 1985, where ended his career in 1990. In total, Prandelli played 197 Serie A matches.

[edit] 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 1997/1998 Serie A campaign as Lecce head coach ended in a sacking on January 1998, Prandelli headed Hellas Verona for two seasons, leading the gialloblu to an immediate promotion to Serie A, then a very good ninth place the next year. He later spent two years in Parma, where he fully reached national glory.

Starting the 2004/2005 season for Serie A's AS Roma, he left the team because of family problems. From season 2005/2006, he is the new coach of Fiorentina, having replaced Dino Zoff. The season was a huge success as Prandelli transformed Fiorentina from relegation strugglers into a team worthy of a Champions' League spot, finishing the season in fourth spot. Unfortunately for Fiorentina and Prandelli however, as a result of the calciopoli match-fixing scandal, Fiorentina along with Juventus were stripped of their Champions League place. Prandelli's team will, though, start the 2006/2007 season in Serie A (albeit with a 15 point deduction) after initially being relegated to Serie B at first instance. On December 11, 2006, Cesare Prandelli was named the winner of the Golden Bench award for best Italian club coach for his work during the 2005/2006 season.

Despite the 15 point deduction, Prandelli was able to guide Fiorentina to 6th place finished in Serie A (with same point tally as 5th placed Palermo), securing UEFA Cup qualification for the 2007/2008 season. The team did well in the competition, being stopped by Rangers in the semifinal. In the domestic competition, the team finished fourth after winning a long race against A.C. Milan, earning a ticket to participate in the UEFA Champions League.

[edit] Personal Life

Cesare Prandelli's wife passed away on the week commencing 26th November 2007. On the 29th 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 wifes funeral along with her personal friends. The team was shaken by the turn of events.

[edit] References

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Atalanta B.C. – Managers

Cevenini (1929–30) • Viola (1930–33) • Payer (1933) • Mattea (1933–35) • Payer (1935–36) • Barbieri (1936–38) • Kertész (1938–39) • Fiorentini (1939–41) • Nehadoma (1941–46) • Meazza (1946) • Monti (1946) • Fiorentini (1946–49) • Carcano (1949) • Varglien (1949–51) • Neville (1951–52) • Ceresoli (1952) • Ferrero (1952–54) • Simonetti (1954) • Bonizzoni (1954–57) • Rigotti (1957–58) • Bonomi (1958) • Adamek (1958–59) • Valcareggi (1959–62) • Tabanelli (1962–63) • Quario (1963–64) • Ceresoli (1964) • Puricelli (1965–66) • Angeleri (1966–67) • Tabanelli (1967–68) • Angeleri (1968–69) • Moro (1969) • Ceresoli (1969) • Viciani (1969–70) • Gei (1970) • Rota (1970) • Corsini (1970–74) • Herrera (1974–75) • Piccioli (1975) • Cadè (1975–76) • Leoncini (1976) • Rota (1976–80) • Bolchi (1980–81) • Corsini (1981) • Bianchi (1981–83) • Sonetti (1983–87) • Mondonico (1987–90) • Frosio (1990–91) • Giorgi (1991–92) • Lippi (1992–93) • Guidolin (1993) • Prandelli (1993–94) • Mondonico (1994–98) • Mutti (1998–99) • Vavassori (1999–2003) • Finardi (2003) • Mandorlini (2003–05) • Rossi (2005) • Colantuono (2005–07) • Del Neri (2007–)
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A.S. Roma – Managers

Garbutt (1927–29) • Baccani (1929–30) • Burgess (1930–32) • Barr (1932–3) • Kovács (1933–34) • Barbesino (1934–38) • Ara (1938–39) • Schaffer (1939–42) • Kertész (1942–43) • Masetti (1943–45) • Degni (1945–47) • Senkey (1947–48) • Brunella (1948–49) • Bernardini (1949–50) • Baloncieri (1950) • Serantoni (1950) • Masetti (1950–1951) • Viani (1951–1953) • Varglien (1953–54) • Carver (1954–56) • Sárosi (1956) • Masetti (1956–57) • Stock (1957–58) • Nordahl (1958–59) • Sárosi (1959–60) • Foni (1960–61) • Carniglia (1961–63) • Krieziu (1963) • Foni (1963–64) • Miró (1964–65) • Lorenzo (1965–66) • Pugliese (1966–68) • Herrera (1968–70) • Tessari (1970) • Herrera (1971–72) • Trebiciani (1972–73) • Liedholm (1974–77) • Giagnoni (1978–79) • Valcareggi (1979–80) • Liedholm (1980–84) • Eriksson (1984–86) • Sormani (1986–88) • Liedholm (1988) • Spinosi (1988–89) • Radice (1989–90) • Bianchi (1990–92) • Boškov (1992–93) • Mazzone (1993–96) • Bianchi (1996) • Liedholm (1996) • Sella (1996) • Zeman (1997–1999) • Capello (1999–2004) • Prandelli (2004) • Völler (2004) • Del Neri (2004–05) • Conti (2005) • Spalletti (2005–)
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ACF Fiorentina – Managers

Csapkay (1926–30) • Feldmann (1930–31) • Felsner (1931–33) • Rady (1933) • Ging (1933–34) • Ara (1934–37) • Molnar (1938) • Soutschek (1938–39) • Galluzzi (1939–45) • Bigogno (1945–46) • Ara (1946) • Magli (1946–47) • Senkey (1947) • Ferrero (1947–51) • Magli (1951–53) • Bernardini (1953–58) • Czeizler (1958–59) • Ferrero (1959) • Carniglia (1959–60) • Chiappella (1960) • Hidegkuti (1960–62) • Valcareggi (1962–64) • Chiappella (1964–67) • Ferrero (1967–68) • Bassi (1968) • Pesaola (1968–71) • Pugliese (1971) • Liedholm (1971–73) • Radice (1973–74) • Rocco (1974–75) • Mazzone (1975–77) • Mazzoni (1977–78) • Chiappella (1978) • Carosi (1978–81) • De Sisti (1981–85) • Valcareggi (1985) • Agroppi (1985–86) • Bersellini (1986–87) • Eriksson (1987–89) • Giorgi (1989–90) • Graziani (1990) • Lazaroni (1990–91) • Radice (1991–93) • Agroppi (1993) • Chiarugi (1993) • Ranieri (1993–97) • Malesani (1997–98) • Trapattoni (1998–2000) • Terim (2000–01) • Chiarugi (2001) • Mancini (2001) • Bianchi (2001–02) • Chiarugi (2002) • Fascetti (2002) • Vierchowod (2002) • Cavasin (2002–03) • Mondonico (2003–04) • Buso (2004–05) • Zoff (2005) • Prandelli (2005–)
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ACF Fiorentina – current squad

1 Frey • 2 Krøldrup • 3 Dainelli • 4 Donadel • 5 Gamberini • 6 Potenza • 7 Semioli • 9 Osvaldo • 10 Mutu • 11 Gilardino • 12 Lupatelli • 15 Mazuch • 16 Hable • 17 Papa Waigo • 18 Montolivo • 19 Gobbi • 20 Jørgensen • 21 Ujfaluši • 22 Kuzmanović • 23 Pasqual • 24 Santana • 25 Avramov • 29 Pazzini • 32 Vieri • 54 Da Costa • 99 Cacia • Coach: Prandelli