Nicola Caccia (born 10 April 1970) is an Italian former professional

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who played as a forward.

Playing career

Caccia made his breakthrough with the Tuscan club Empoli, where he made his first team debut at the age of 17. Following brief stints with Bari and Modena, Caccia rose to prominence with

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, which resulted in a transfer to

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in the summer of 1995. Caccia scored 14 goals in Serie A for Piacenza, and was one of the main surprises in the 1995-96 Serie A season.

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was a bigger club than Piacenza, and had suffered from a lack of goals scored ever since

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left a couple of years earlier. Caccia was Napoli's main signing in the summer of 1996, but despite being club topscorer, failed to impress with merely seven goals. Instead,

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bought Caccia as replacement for Filippo Inzaghi. In three seasons with the Bergamo club, Caccia scored 40 goals, albeit the final two seasons were spent in Serie B, since Atalanta were relegated in

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. Caccia then moved back to Piacenza, where he had a pretty good goals per game ratio, but also were tested positive for doping, leading to a six-month suspension. Caccia was not fired by Piacenza and played there until 2003, before joining

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, before finishing his career at

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Coaching career

In July 2006 Caccia took charge of Serie C2 club Biellese; after being sacked in September 2006 and reappointed back in January 2007, he however failed to save his team from relegation. In July 2007 he was named new head coach of Serie C1 club Sangiovannese, but dismissed in October due to poor results. In July 2011 he accepted an offer to work as assistant coach of Livorno under

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and successively

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. In July 2012 he was called by

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to work alongside him as new technical collaborator of

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. In 2014, he obtained a

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