Aldo Dolcetti (born 23 October 1966 in

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) is an Italian

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manager and former player, who played as a

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Career

Playing career

Dolcetti began as a youngster at

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 ...

but spent a season at

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before signing for

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in 1987. He was a central player for Pisa in two spells in

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, before brief spells with

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and Lucchese. He joined

Cesena Cesena (; rgn, Cisêna) is a city and ''comune'' in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, served by Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137. History Cesena was o ...

in 1993 and was, along with Dario Hubner and

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, part of a side which came close to promotion to Serie A in 1994. After Cesena's relegation in 1997, he had brief spells at Savoia and

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Coaching career

After his retired from playing football, Dolcetti was appointed head coach of

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and Milan Primavera.

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Career Stats
1966 births Living people Italian footballers Italian football managers Budapest Honvéd FC managers Calcio Lecco 1912 managers Sportspeople from the Province of Brescia Novara F.C. players A.C. Cesena players A.C.R. Messina players Pisa S.C. players S.S.D. Lucchese 1905 players U.S. Avellino 1912 players Serie A players Association football midfielders A.C. Milan non-playing staff Juventus F.C. non-playing staff Expatriate football managers in Hungary Footballers from Lombardy {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1960s-stub