Amedeo Mangone (born 12 July 1968 in

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) is an Italian

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coach and former player, who played as a defender. He currently serves as head coach of Italian amateur club Villa Valle.

Playing career

A product of

A.C. Milan Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...

's youth system, he was transferred in 1987 to Pergocrema of Serie C2. In 1989, he moved to Solbiatese, another Serie C2 club; he left the club 1993 to join

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club Bari, being one of the protagonists of the ''gallettis promotion to

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...

. In 1996, he moved to

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

, and to Roma three years later, for 13 billion lire. In 2001–02 he joined

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(in a swap deal, Mangone, Sergei Gurenko and Paolo Poggi to Parma;

Diego Fuser Diego Fuser (; born 11 November 1968) is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a midfielder, mainly on the right wing, although he was also capable of playing in the centre. Fuser was a quick, hard-working, and energetic playe ...

, Saliou Lassissi and Raffaele Longo to Roma) and then spent periods at

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

and

Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

, ending his career in 2005.

Coaching career

In 2007, he was appointed head coach of

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in Serie C2. In June 2010 he was announced as new head coach of

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club Reggiana. On 22 December 2011 he was sacked. He then served as head coach of Brazilian club Gama for a total seven games between December 2015 and March 2016, being fired due to visa-related issues. In March 2019 he was appointed coach of Milan-based amateurs Brera until the end of the season. On 22 February 2022, he was hired as head coach of

Serie D The Serie D () is the top level of semi-professional football in the country. The fourth tier of the Italian league system, the competition sits beneath the third professional league, Serie C. It is administered by the Lega Nazionale Dilettant ...

relegation-struggling club Villa Valle. After saving his club from relegation through playoffs, Mangone was successively confirmed as the club's head coach also for the 2022–23 season.

Honours

Club

Bologna * UEFA Intertoto Cup:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

Roma *

: 2000–01

References

External links

Profile at Lega-Calcio.it
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