Valter Alessandro Salvioni (born 8 October 1953), best known as Sandro Salvioni, is an Italian football manager, and a former player, last in charge as head coach of

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Career

Playing career

Salvioni mostly played into lower ranks of Italian football, excluding a two-year stint with then-

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club Foggia and a lone season with

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Coaching career

Salvioni started his coaching career in 1989 with

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club Seregno which he later to join

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in 1991. In 1993, he made his debut as professional coach with

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in the Serie C2 league. From 1994 to 2000 he then served as youth coach of

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; in June 2000 he was then appointed by

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to take over as head coach of French Ligue 2 club

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, who was acquired by the

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chairman as a satellite club for the ''giallorossi''. In his second and final season in charge, he guided the French outfit to promotion into the top flight. In 2002, he agreed a return to Italy in order to become new head coach of

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club

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, with little success; this was followed by another unsuccessful Serie B period with

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. After two short spells with minor league teams

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and Calcio Caravaggese, he took over from Francesco Monaco as head coach of

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in May 2009, guiding the small club to escape relegation in the 2008–09 season and a mid-table placement in the following 2009–10 season. However, Salvioni found himself again without a job in July 2010 due to Ancona's exclusion from Italian football. In December 2010 he became the new head coach of

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, as of the start of winter break, the team finished as the bottom with 17 points. On 28 January 2012, he was appointed new head coach of Serie B club AlbinoLeffe, in an attempt to save the small club from relegation. He was removed from his position on 7 April 2012 due to poor results. He then briefly served as head coach of

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between January and March 2016.

References

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