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Career

Malesani had a very poor playing career, mostly spent on a Veronese amateur team Audace S. Michele, where he obtained a promotion from Serie D to Serie C in 1976/1977, appearing fourteen times on that season^[1]. He retired from playing football at the age of 24, and worked at Canon in Amsterdam, where he studied the Ajax Amsterdam total football training methods.^[2] He left his job at Canon in 1990 order to pursue a coaching career at Serie C1 team Chievo Verona for the Allieviì youth squad. In 1991, he is assistant of head coach Carlo De Angelis in the first team, and in 1993 he becomes head coach himself. His first season as head coach ended in a historical promotion to Serie B for then-unknown Chievo Verona. Malesani left Chievo in 1997, after three impressive Serie B seasons and a narrowly missed promotion in the Italian top division, in order to become Fiorentina's boss. Verona is an ancient town, episcopal see, and province in Veneto, Northern Italy. ... Serie D is the top level of Italian non-professional football and fifth level overall. ... Serie C is the name of the third and fourth highest football leagues in Italy. ... Canon USAs Silicon Valley offices Canon Inc. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 741,329 (1 August 2006) Demonym Amsterdammer Coordinates Website www. ... Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Euronext: AJAX) also referred to as Ajax Amsterdam, AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax (pronounced Ah-yahx), is a football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. ... In football (soccer), Total Football is a system where a player who moves out of his position is replaced by another from his team, thus retaining their intended organisational structure. ... Serie C is the name of the third and fourth highest football leagues in Italy. ... Associazione Calcio ChievoVerona is an Italian football club named after a minor suburb of Verona, Veneto, and owned by Paluani, a cake company and the inspiration for their original name, Paluani Chievo. ... Serie B is the name of the second highest football league in Italy. ... ACF Fiorentina is an Italian football club based in Florence (Firenze), Tuscany. ...

A good Fiorentina season convinced Parma to appoint Malesani as new head coach in 1998, where he won a Coppa Italia, a UEFA Cup, an Italian Super Cup and obtained two fourth places before being sacked in 2000/2001. He then coached Verona, Modena and Greek side Panathinaikos with much less success. Parma Football Club (formerly Parma Associazione Calcio) is an Italian football club based in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, nicknamed the Crociati (Crusaders) and the Gialloblu (Yellow-Blues). ... The Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) is an Italian footballs annual cup competition. ... The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). ... The Italian Super Cup or the SuperCoppa Italiana is a pre-season football (soccer) competition held the week before the season begins in Italy every year, in August. ... Hellas Verona Football Club S.p. ... Modena F.C. is a football club based in Modena, Emilia-Romagna. ... Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (Greek: Παναθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Όμιλος,  ), widely known both as Panathinaikos or PAO, is a Greek sports club based in Athens, Greece. ...

Malesani was appointed coach of Udinese on January 2007, as replacement for Giovanni Galeone. Udinese Calcio S.p. ... Giovanni Galeone (born January 25, 1941 in Naples) is an Italian football (soccer) manager. ...

Trivia

• On his honeymoon, Malesani decided to go to Barcelona in order to watch Johan Cruijff's coaching sessions at Barcelona FC.
• During his coaching time at Panathinaikos, Malesani gained some popularity for a four-minutes-long press conference (made in Italian language) where he angrily attacked the supporting fanbase and the journalists, pronouncing 21 times the word cazzo (dick, used as a expletive in Italian).

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References

1. ^ http://www.hellastory.net/pages/scheda.cfm?id=7D590D79-4854-12EA-BD663F99594DEB70
2. ^ http://www.tifonet.it/fiore/malesani/bio.htm