Gianluca De Angelis (born 7 September 1967) is a former Italian footballer and currently head coach of

Fano Fano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, located where the ''Via Flaminia'' reaches the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by popula ...

. De Angelis had played 183 games in Italian Serie B; 155 games in Serie C1 and 127 games in Serie C2.

Playing career

Born in

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, in the Province of Fermo, Marche, De Angelis started his career at an amateur club in

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, in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche. He was signed by

Serie C2 Lega Pro Seconda Divisione was the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consisted of 36 teams, but in the 2011–12 season, there were 41 teams divided geographically into two divisions of 2 ...

club Civitanovese in 1987, located in Province of Macerata, Marche. In 1989, he was signed by

Ancona Calcio Associazione Calcio Ancona, commonly referred to as Ancona, was an Italian football club based in Ancona, Marche. It was founded in 2004 as the phoenix club of defunct 1905 club Unione Sportiva Anconitana, which changed its name to Ancona Calci ...

, located in Ancona, the capital of Marche region. He made his Serie B debut for the club. The club finished as the third of

1991–92 Serie B The Serie B 1991–92 was the sixtieth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation. Teams Piacenza, Venezia, Casertana and Palermo had been promoted from Serie C, while Lecce, Pisa, Cesena and Bologna had been relegated fr ...

, thus promoted to Serie A. In November 1992 De Angelis was loaned to

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of Serie C1, after no appearances in

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. Ancona relegated back to Serie B in 1993, which De Angelis continued to play for the Marche club until 1995. In October 1995 De Angelis was signed by Serie B club

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The club promoted as the runner-up of

1995–96 Serie B The Serie B 1995–96 was the sixty-fourth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation. Teams Bologna, Pistoiese, Reggina and Avellino had been promoted from Serie C, while Genoa, Foggia, Reggiana and Brescia had been r ...

. De Angelis left a Serie A club in September 1996 for second division club

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. At age 30 he returned to the third division for

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. In 1998, he was signed by

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. The club won Group A of 1998–99 Serie C1. However, he left the club again after no appearance in

1999–2000 Serie B The Serie B 1999–2000 was the sixty-eighth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation. Teams Alzano, Fermana, Pistoiese and Savoia had been promoted from Serie C, while Salernitana, Sampdoria, Vicenza and Empoli had b ...

. He was signed by Serie C1 club

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in October 1999. in March 2000 he moved, this time back to the fourth division for

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(from 1978 to 2014 Serie C2 was the fourth division). The Marche club won the promotion playoffs of 1999–2000 Serie C2. He spent a season with the club in Serie C1 before left again in September 2001. With

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, his 11th club of his career, he won promotion again as Group B champions of 2001–02 Serie C2. In 2003 the club avoided relegation, however De Angelis also left the club again. In 2003, he was signed by another fourth division club

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 again won promotion as Group C champions of 2003–04 Serie C2. He retired in 2005 after playing his last Serie C1 season.

Coaching career

From 2009 to 2011 De Angelis was the coach of "Primavera" team (the reserve team) of

. He acquired license as youth team coach in 2005; in the next year he obtained UEFA A Licence, made him eligible to coach Serie C1 clubs or below or as vice-coach in Serie A and B. De Angelis had coached amateur club Fermana to win

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, thus winning the promotion to Serie D. However the Marche club also bankrupted at the end of season. (Montegranaro moved to Fermo to continues the football history of the town in 2013.) In February 2014 De Angelis was appointed as the head coach of Serie D club

Honours

;As players *

Serie C1 Lega Pro Prima Divisione was the third highest football (soccer), football league in Italy. It consisted of 33 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 16 and 17 teams for group A and B respectively. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1 ...

: 1999 (Alzano Virescit) *

: 2002 (Teramo), 2004 (Frosinone) ;As coach *

: 2013 (Fermana)

References

External links

Frosinone profile

Lega Serie B profile
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