Alberto Cavasin (born 9 January 1956) is an Italian football manager and former player.

Playing career

Cavasin, a right back, started his professional career in 1973 for

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; he then played for a number of

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, B and C clubs, with some success. He retired in 1990.

Managerial career

After a few months as ''Allievi Nazionali'' coach for Calcio Padova, Cavasin became coach of Treviso for the 1990–91 season, to be sacked soon after. After a number of season at the helm of several

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clubs, Cavasin became coach of last-placed Serie B club

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in 1998, as a replacement for Corrado Benedetti, and led the team to keep its place in the league. In 1999, he became coach of

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, and led the club to two good seasons, before to be fired in early 2002. He then coached Serie C2 club Florentia Viola (then Fiorentina) in 2002, as replacement for

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, to be sacked in 2004. Successively he also coached minor Serie A teams such as

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and Treviso with little success. He became coach of Messina on 30 January 2007, as replacement for Bruno Giordano; he was however sacked about two months later, on 2 April, following a 2–0 defeat to Cagliari. On 22 June 2007, he was announced as the new

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boss, leading them to a mid-table finish in the club's second Serie B campaign. On 5 June 2008, Frosinone announced it had parted company with Alberto Cavasin. On 20 May 2009, he completed a comeback at Brescia, replacing

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as head coach for the remaining two games of the 2008–09 Serie B regular season, with the aim to lead the ''rondinelle'' into the promotion playoffs. After being sacked by Brescia, on 12 November 2009 he became the manager of

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, a Swiss Super League team. On 2 April 2010, Bellinzona fired the Italian trainer, formerly he coaching Lecce, Fiorentina and Brescia. On 7 March 2011, he was named head coach of

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, replacing

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for the remainder of the 2010–11 Serie A and was ultimately relegated to

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with the team. In October 2016 he took over at the

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side

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. He was dismissed from his role on 23 November 2016 after ten games in charge with a record of two wins and eight defeats. He returned to work in Italy in December 2017, as head coach of

club Santarcangelo. He was however dismissed in March 2018 due to poor results. After three years of inactivity, in August 2021 Cavasin accepted to become the new head coach of Barisardo, a small Sardinian club playing in the

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regional amateur league (seventh level of Italian football). He left Barisardo after one season, where he guided the small Sardinian club to win the league.

Honours

Coach

Individual * Panchina d'Oro: 1999–2000

References

External links

Alberto Cavasin official website
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