Felice Mancini (born 10 June 1965) is an Italian former footballer, who played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

, and a current coach. He is the father of

Andrea Mancini Andrea Mancini (born 13 August 1992) is an Italian former footballer who played as a forward or midfielder. He is the youngest son of Roberto Mancini. Playing career Internazionale Primavera Mancini started his career at Inter Milan where hi ...

Career

Born in Rome, capital of Italy, Mancini started his professional career at Abruzzo club

Pescara Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...

, where he played a few Serie A and Serie B games during his 6-year contract, He also left the club in temporary deal for various Serie C2 club, 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 ...

(from Lazio region) 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 ...

(Abruzzo region). In November 1990 he finally left the club for Apulia club Martina. Mancini without a club for a season. In 1992–93 he joined Marche team Civitanovese. After retirement he became a head coach for amateur team in Abruzzo. In May 2004 he obtained a coaching license as youth team coach. He was appointed as the coach of Notaresco of

Eccellenza Abruzzo Eccellenza Abruzzo is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Abruzzo, Italy. It is competed amongst 18 teams and the winner is promoted to Serie D (usually to Girone F). The clubs that finishes between the second and the fifth plac ...

in October 2007 but the chairman retreated the decision few days later. In January 2008 he was appointed as the coach of Pescara's ''Esordienti'' team (under-13 team). Mancini also led ''Giovanissimi'' B team (under-14 team) in the provincial youth league. Mancini returned to amateur football in July 2008 as the coach of Silvi (

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). Since 2009–10 season he was the coach of ''Giovanissimi'' under-15 team. In May 2012 he obtained Italian II-class coaching license, which equivalent to UEFA A License, made Mancini eligible to coach

Lega Pro The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C. The unification of the Lega Pro ...

clubs or as vice-coach of Serie A and Serie B teams. However along with Cristian Bucchi who also freshly obtained their license, were remained in youth coaching for Pescara.

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External links

Serie A profile (data by Panini)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mancini, Felice Italian footballers Italian football managers Delfino Pescara 1936 players Frosinone Calcio players S.S. Virtus Lanciano 1924 players A.S.D. Martina Calcio 1947 players Serie A players Serie B players Delfino Pescara 1936 managers Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Rome 1965 births Living people