Alberto Malesani
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Alberto Malesani is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

) is an Italian
Italy
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 association football manager, currently in charge of Genoa
Genoa C.F.C.
Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa , is a professional Italian football club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria...

.

Early career and breakthrough at Chievo

Malesani career as player was mostly spent on a Veronese
Verona
Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

 amateur team Audace S. Michele, where he obtained a promotion from Serie D
Serie D
Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

 to Serie C
Serie C
The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico , commonly known as Lega Pro , is the governing body that runs the third and fourth highest football divisions in Italy, the Prima Divisione and Seconda Divisione respectively. It also includes the sole professional club of San Marino...

 in 1976–77, appearing fourteen times on that season. He retired from playing football at the age of 24, and worked at Canon in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

, where he studied the Ajax Amsterdam
Ajax Amsterdam
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax , also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax , is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands...

 total football
Total Football
"Total Football" is the label given to an influential tactical theory of association football in which any outfield player can take over the role of any other player in a team. It was pioneered by Dutch football club Ajax from 1969 to 1973, and further used by the Netherlands National Football...

 training methods. His passion for coaching was so great, that on his honeymoon, he decided to go to Barcelona
Barcelona
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 in order to watch Johan Cruijff's coaching sessions at Barcelona FC.

Malesani left his job at Canon in 1990 order to pursue a coaching career at Serie C1
Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....

 team Chievo Verona
A.C. ChievoVerona
Associazione Calcio Chievo Verona is a professional Italian football club named after and based in Chievo, a suburb of 2,800 inhabitants in Verona, Veneto, and owned by Paluani, a cake company and the inspiration for their original name, Paluani Chievo...

 for the Allievi youth squad. In 1991, he is assistant of head coach Carlo De Angelis
Carlo De Angelis
Carlo De Angelis is an Italian football manager. He managed Chievoverona for many years in Serie C2 and Serie C1.-Career:*1976-1978 Chievo *1978-1980 Chievo*1980-1983 Verona *1983-1984 Pescantina...

 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
Serie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

 for then-unknown Chievo Verona.

Fiorentina, Parma and UEFA Cup triumph

Malesani left Chievo in 1997, after three impressive Serie B seasons and a narrowly missed promotion in the Serie A league in order to become Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as simply Fiorentina, is a professional Italian football club from Florence, Tuscany. Founded by a merger in 1926, Fiorentina have played at the top level of Italian football for the majority of their existence; only four clubs have played in more Serie A...

's boss, in what was his first stint in the Italian top flight.

A good Fiorentina season convinced Parma
Parma F.C.
Parma Football Club , commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia–Romagna that will compete in Serie A for the 2011–12 season, having finished in twelfth position last season. Founded as Verdi Foot Ball Club in July 1913, the club changed its...

 to appoint Malesani as new head coach in 1998, where he won a Coppa Italia
Coppa Italia
The Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...

, a UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

, an Italian Super Cup and obtained two fourth places before being sacked in 2000–01.

Recent years

After losing his job at Parma, Malesani then coached Verona
Hellas Verona F.C.
Hellas Verona Football Club is a professional Italian association football team, based in Verona, Veneto. The team's colours are yellow and blue and gialloblu is the team's most widely used nickname...

 and Modena
Modena F.C.
Modena Football Club is an Italian football club based in Modena, Emilia-Romagna. The club was formed in 1912 and currently plays in Italian Serie B, after being relegated from a two year period in Serie A in the year 2004. The team's previous stay in Italy's top division ended in 1964. The team...

, failing to save the clubs from relegation in both cases; successively he moved abroad to coach Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 side Panathinaikos, still with little success. During coaching Panathinaikos FC
Panathinaikos FC
Panathinaikos Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Athens. Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history. They have won 20 Greek Championships and 17 Greek Cups.Panathinaikos is the most...

, the Greek sport press was constantly criticizing his tactics. After a home draw against Iraklis FC and during the post match press conference, Malesani had an unforgettable outburst of temper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQm9RJfoVoA (very similar to Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni , sometimes known as "Trap" or "Il Trap", is an Italian football coach and former player, considered the most successful club coach in the history of Serie A. As a player he was part of Italy's squad at the 1962 FIFA World Cup....

's during his career in FC Bayern
FC Bayern
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) against the fans and journalists. Notably, he angrily attacked the journalists pronouncing 21 times the word cazzo (dick
Penis
The penis is a biological feature of male animals including both vertebrates and invertebrates...

, used as an expletive in Italian). He also made some unfortunate comments concerning the supporting fanbase for heavily criticizing the Vardinogiannis
Giannis Vardinogiannis
Giannis Vardinogiannis is a Greek of Cretan descent, the first-born son of oil tycoon Vardis Vardinogiannis. He majored in economics at Vassar College in the United States...

 family (sole owners of the club at the time), although he was unaware of the long standing rivalry of the majority of the team's fans against them, blaming them for being incompetent to lead the club successfully.

Malesani was appointed coach of Udinese
Udinese Calcio
Udinese Calcio is an Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and currently plays in the Serie A. Founded in 1896, Udinese is the second oldest club in the Serie A, after Genoa....

 on January 2007, as replacement for Giovanni Galeone
Giovanni Galeone
Giovanni Galeone is an Italian football manager.-Playing career:Galeone, born in Naples, moved to Northern Italy in his youth years, and played for Ponziana Trieste, Monza and Udinese, where he spent most of his playing career.-Managing career:Galeone started his coaching career at 34 for Serie D...

. He led his side to a not particularly impressive tenth place in the Serie A 2006-07
Serie A 2006-07
The Serie A 2006–2007 season began September 10, 2006. It was scheduled to begin on August 26 and 27, but was then postponed due to the Serie A scandal of 2006. It is the 104th Italian championship ever held, the first without the presence of Juventus, and the 75th Serie A league, the first...

 final table, only seven points far from relegation, being not confirmed for the following season. On November 27, 2007 he was unveiled as Empoli
Empoli F.C.
Empoli Football Club is an Italian association football club located in Empoli, Tuscany, founded in 1920 and played its first official match in 1921.In recent years, the club has all too often been bouncing between Italy's two top divisions...

's new head coach, replacing Luigi Cagni
Luigi Cagni
Luigi "Gigi" Cagni is an Italian football former player and current manager of Vicenza in Serie B.- Player :Cagni, a defender, made his Serie A debut for Brescia in 1970, in a league match lost 4-0 to Cagliari...

. He was axed on March 31, 2008 following a 2–0 home defeat to U.C. Sampdoria
U.C. Sampdoria
Unione Calcio Sampdoria is an Italian association football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria...

 which left Empoli down in last place in the league table.

On November 23, 2009 he was appointed new head coach of Siena
A.C. Siena
Associazione Calcio Siena is an Italian football club based in Siena.The club currently plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B at the end of the 2010-2011 season....

, replacing Marco Baroni
Marco Baroni
Marco Baroni is an Italian football manager and former player. He is currently in charge as head coach of Cremonese.-Playing career:...

. On 21 May 2010 was released by Siena.

On September 1, 2010 he signed a one year contract for Bologna.
After a successful season which saw his club finish in 16th place, six points clear of relegation, despite a three point deduction for tax problems and running feuds over the clubs ownership, Malesani was replaced by Pierpaolo Bisoli
Pierpaolo Bisoli
Pierpaolo Bisoli is an Italian football manager and former midfielder.-Playing:Bisoli started his professional career in 1984 with Pistoiese, where he spent a total of three seasons. He then played for a handful of minor teams before to join Cagliari in 1991, becoming a mainstay for the Sardinians...

 on 26 May 2011. On 19 June 2011 Genoa
Genoa C.F.C.
Genoa Cricket and Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Genoa , is a professional Italian football club based in the city of Genoa, Liguria...

officially announced that Malesani would be the new first team head coach.
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