Andrea Cano (born 18 April 1976) is an Italian

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manager and former player who played as a

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. He is currently the director of coaching for youth goalkeepers at Padova Football Academy.

Playing career

Cano's career began with Narnese. He moved to

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before returning to Narnese. He later played for

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the Va ...

and

Lanciano Lanciano (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Langiàne ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It has 36,304 inhabitants as of 2011. The town is known for the first recorded Catholic Eucharistic ...

. From 2005 he played for

Calcio Padova Calcio Padova, commonly referred to as Padova, is an Football in Italy, Italian football club based in Padua, Veneto. Founded in 1910, Padova currently play in , having last been in Serie A in 1996. The team's official colours are white and red. ...

, renewing his contract several times before leaving the club in 2012. In October 2012 he moved to

Bassano Virtus Bassano Virtus 55 Soccer Team S.p.A., commonly known as Bassano Virtus or just Bassano is a football club based in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto. The first team of the club was relocated to Vicenza in 2018 as L.R. Vicenza Virtus, while the youth ...

in the

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and in November 2013 joined Delta Porto Tolle in the same division. At the end of the 2013–14 season he retired as a player.

Coaching career

In the summer of 2015 Cano became the youth goalkeepers coach for Abano in

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. In July 2016 he moved to coach at

References

External links

Profile
at Legaserieb.it

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