Adolfo Sormani (born 11 August 1965) is an Italian retired footballer and current head coach. He is the son of former footballer and coach

Angelo Sormani Angelo Benedicto Miguel Sormani (; born 3 July 1939) is a former football manager and player, who played as a forward; he was capable of playing anywhere along the front-line, as a centre-forward, as well as in an attacking midfield role, or als ...

Playing career

A Napoli youth product, he has mostly played in the minor divisions of Italy, except for a short stint at

Avellino Avellino () is a town and ''comune'', capital of the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is situated in a plain surrounded by mountains east of Naples and is an important hub on the road from Salerno to Benevento. ...

Coaching career

Following his retirement as a player, Sormani became a coach and served in the youth teams of

Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...

and Napoli as well. He briefly served in 2016 as head coach of Albanian team

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. Successively he was appointed in charge of Danish second division club Vejle Boldklub, guiding them to promotion before leaving in 2019. After a short return at Partizani Tirana in 2020, he was named new head coach of

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club

Lavello Lavello ( Potentino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the region of Basilicata of southern Italy; it is located in the middle Ofanto valley. History The area of Lavello was settled in prehistoric times, as attested by ...

before being fired in November 2021.

References

1965 births Living people Footballers from Naples Italian footballers Men's association football midfielders Serie A players Serie B players SSC Napoli players U.S. Avellino 1912 players Italian football managers F.C. Südtirol managers FK Partizani Tirana managers Vejle Boldklub managers Kategoria Superiore managers Italian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Albania Italian expatriate sportspeople in Albania Expatriate football managers in Denmark Italian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1960s-stub