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Alessandro Grandoni
Italian footballer and manager
Alessandro Grandoni (born 27 July 1977) is an Italian football coach and a former defender. He is the head coach of Serie D club Chieti.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1977-07-27) 27 July 1977 (age 46) | ||
| Place of birth | Terni, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Chieti (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Ternana | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1995 | Ternana | 22 | (1) |
| 1995–1998 | Lazio | 33 | (1) |
| 1995–1996 | → Ternana (loan) | 30 | (0) |
| 1998–2000 | Sampdoria | 32 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Torino (loan) | 17 | (1) |
| 2000–2004 | Sampdoria | 106 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Modena | 16 | (0) |
| 2004–2010 | Livorno | 145 | (2) |
| 2009–2010 | → Gallipoli (loan) | 30 | (0) |
| 2010 | Olympiakos Volos | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 431 | (5) | |
| International career | |||
| 1997–2000 | Italy U-21 | 19 | (0) |
| 1997–2000 | Italy U-23 | 7 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2017–2018 | Scandicci | ||
| 2018–2019 | Savona | ||
| 2019– | Chieti | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Born in Terni, Italy, Grandoni started his career with hometown club Ternana, then joining Lazio in 1995, and making his Serie A debut one year later. Since then he played at Serie A and Serie B level with a number of teams, including Sampdoria, Torino, Modena, Livorno and Gallipoli. In 2010, he agreed to join Greek Superleague club Olympiakos Volos, but he successively left the club a few days later by mutual consent.[1]
Grandoni was also part of the Italy Olympic team that won the gold medal at the 1997 Mediterranean Games football tournament; he also took part at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
After retiring as a player, Grandoni started a career as a coach. He served as youth coach of ACF Fiorentina (Giovanissimi Nazionali) between 2014 and 2016, and successively as youth coach of the Primavera team of Pisa.
In November 2017 he accepted an offer as head coach of Tuscan Serie D club Scandicci,[2] which he led to avoid relegation by the end of the season.[3] He subsequently joined another Serie D club, Savona, in June 2018.[4] He left Savona at the end of the 2018–19 season.
- "ESCLUSIVA TMW - Olympiakos Volos, finalmente si libera Grandoni" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
- "SERIE D, lo SCANDICCI cambia ancora: salta CIOFFI, arriva GRANDONI" (in Italian). ToscanaGol. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- "Serie D girone E, play out: lo Scandicci ce la fa. Giù la Rignanese" (in Italian). rsvn.it. 20 May 2018. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- "Il Savona ha ufficializzato il nuovo mister: è Alessandro Grandoni" (in Italian). La Stampa. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- "ALESSANDRO GRANDONI" (Press release) (in Italian). Chieti. 17 July 2019.
- Alessandro Grandoni at WorldFootball.net
- Profile on official Livorno website (in Italian) at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 August 2005)
- FIGC (in Italian)
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