Claudio Cesare Prandelli ( Italian: Claudio Cesare Prandelli ; August 19, 1957 , Ordzinovi , province of Brescia , Lombardy region ) - Italian football player and football coach. He acted as a midfielder .
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| Full name | Claudio Cesare Prandelli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Mafiosi, Gentleman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Ordzinovovi , Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth | 176 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Main coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Player Career
Prandelli's midfielder began his career at the Cremonese club in 1974. In 1978 he moved to Atalanta , then became a Juventus player in 1979. Played 6 seasons at Juventus and won Serie A three times in the club. He returned to Atalanta in 1985 and in 1990 ended his career there. In total, there are 197 matches in Serie A.
Coach Career
Prandelli began his career as a manager in the Atalanta youth team. With the Atalanta youth team, he achieved excellent results from 1990 to 1997, especially from November 1993 to June 1997, when he was interim head coach in the club’s first team. After the unsuccessful 1997/98 season in Serie A , when he headed Lecce and was fired in January 1998, Prandelli led Verona for two seasons, bringing the club to Serie A, where the next year helped the team take the ninth place. The next two years, Cesare was the head coach of Parma , the head of which, achieved national fame.
At the beginning of the 2004/05 season, he left the post of Roma coach for family reasons. In the 2005/06 season, he led the Fiorentina , replacing Dino Zoff as head coach. This season, Prandelli together with the team achieved great success, taking fourth place in the championship and ending up in the Champions League. As a result of the famous scandal, the Caliopolis Fiorentina and Juventus were deprived of their places in the Champions League . As a result, the Prandelli team, in contrast to Juventus, which was lowered to Serie B , began the 2006/07 season in Serie A with a liability of “-15” points. On December 11, 2006, Cesare Prandelli was named the best coach of the 2005/06 season.
Despite the start gap of all teams by 15 points, Prandelli was able to bring Fiorentina to sixth place in Serie A, qualifying in the UEFA Cup for the 2007/08 season. The team was able to reach the semifinals, where it was stopped by the Scottish Rangers . In the 2007/08 season, the violets were able to win the race for fourth place in Serie A against Milan , gaining the right to play in the Champions League. In the 2008/09 season, Fiorentina also finished fourth, ahead of Genoa .
After the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he led the Italian team instead of Marcello Lippi . The contract was signed for 4 years [2] . On July 1, 2010, the presentation of Prandelli as a mentor of the Italian team [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] was held at the press center of the Roman Olympic Stadium . The Italians confidently won a ticket to Euro 2012 without having suffered a single defeat and only tied two matches. At the tournament, “Squadra Azzurra” left the group from second place, losing the first only to the current world and European champions to the Spaniards . In the quarterfinal, Italy defeated the English national team in the penalty shootout, and the Germans were defeated in the semifinal. In the final, the Italians lost to the Spanish national team with a crushing score of 0: 4.
Prandelli also led the national team at the World Cup in Brazil. In the first match of the group stage, the Italians defeated the England national team (2: 1), but then they lost 0-1 to the Costa Ricans and Uruguayans , as a result of which they took only 3rd place in the group and failed to break into the playoffs. After that, Prandelli resigned as head coach of the national team.
July 8, 2014 Prandelli headed the Turkish " Galatasaray ", signing a contract for two years [8] . On November 28, 2014, Prandelli was dismissed from his post as head coach of Galatasaray [9] . Instead, the Istanbul club was headed by Hamza Hamzaoglu [10] [11] . After that, Prandelli remained unemployed for almost two years, despite the fact that his name was constantly associated with various clubs.
October 1, 2016, Cesare returned to coaching, leading the unsuccessful start of the season, the Spanish “ Valencia ”. The contract is calculated until June 30, 2018 [12] [13] . However, Prandelli failed to improve the results of the “bats,” and after working in the club for only three months, the Italian resigned [14] .
On May 20, 2017, official information appeared that Prandelli became the head coach of Al Nasra [15] .
On December 7, 2018, Prandelli was appointed head coach of Genoa [16] .
Personal life
Cesare Prandelli Manuel's wife died of a serious illness on November 26, 2007 at the age of 45. Their marriage lasted more than 20 years. In the match between Fiorentina and the Greek AEK team on November 29, assistant Prandelli Garbiele Pin temporarily led the team. At the funeral of his wife Prandelli, the team players and his close friends honored her memory. The team was shocked by this event.
Cesare has two children: son Niccolo (born in 1984) and daughter Carolina (born in 1987).
Achievements
As a player
Juventus
- Champion of Italy 1980/81, 1981/82, 1983/84
- Italian Cup 1982/83
- Cup Winners' Cup 1983/84
- UEFA Super Cup 1984
- European Cup 1984/85
As a trainer
Parma
- Finalist of the Super Bowl of Italy : 2002
Italy national team
- European Vice-Champion : 2012
- Confederations Cup bronze medalist: 2013
Personal
- Winner of the Golden Bench Award: 2006, 2007
- Football coach of the year in Italy : 2009
Notes
- ↑ Transfermarkt.com - 2000.
- ↑ Prandelli signed a four-year contract with the Italian national team (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment May 30, 2010. Archived June 2, 2010.
- ↑ Il neo commissario tecnico Prandelli presenta la sua Italia: “Sarà una Nazionale di qualità”
- ↑ Prandelli: orgoglio Italia, qualita 'c'e'
- ↑ Prandelli pensa positivo: “Punterò sulla qualità”
- ↑ Prandelli suona la carica. "Azzurri, fuori l'orgoglio"
- ↑ Prandelli: “Buffon mio capitano, De Rossi un leader”
- ↑ Cesare Prandelli Sözleşme İmzaladı ( turkish ) . Galatasaray Spor Kulübü Resmi Internet Sitesi (07/08/2014). Date of treatment December 2, 2014.
- ↑ Cesare Prandelli'nin Sözleşmesi Feshedildi (tour) . Galatasaray Spor Kulübmi Resmi Internet Sitesi (11.28.2014). Date of treatment December 2, 2014.
- ↑ Galatasaray'ın Yeni Teknik Direktörü Hamza Hamzaoğlu (tour) . Galatasaray Spor Kulübmi Resmi Internet Sitesi (12.1.2014). Date of treatment December 2, 2014.
- ↑ Bilgi: Hamza Hamzaoğlu (tour) . Galatasaray Spor Kulübmi Resmi Internet Sitesi (12.1.2014). Date of treatment December 2, 2014.
- ↑ Comunicado Oficial: Cesare Prandelli (Spanish) . Sitio oficial del Valencia CF (10/10/2016). Date of treatment October 3, 2016.
- ↑ Prandelli became the head coach of Valencia. . championat.com . Date of treatment October 29, 2017.
- ↑ Valencia confirmed Prandelli's resignation as head coach. . championat.com . Date of treatment October 29, 2017.
- ↑ Al-Nasr from the UAE confirmed the appointment of Prandelli. . championat.com . Date of treatment October 29, 2017.
- ↑ Cesare Prandelli è il nuovo tecnico (Italian) . Sito ufficiale del Genoa CFC (12/12/2018). Date of treatment December 8, 2018.
Links
- Football Career at Footballplus.com
- Player and on the Transfermarkt website