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Alberto Malesani
Personal information
Full name	Alberto Malesani
Date of birth	June 5, 1954 (age 52)
Place of birth	Verona, Italy
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Udinese
Youth clubs
? 1970	Audace S. Michele Vicenza
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
?-1978	Audace S. Michele	? (?)
Teams managed
1990-1991 1991-1993 1993-1997 1997-1998 1998-2001 2001-2003 2003-2004 2005-2006 2007	Chievo Verona (youth coach) Chievo Verona (assistant coach) Chievo Verona Fiorentina Parma Verona Modena Panathinaikos FC Udinese
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Alberto Malesani (born June 5, 1956 in Verona) is an Italian football (soccer) manager. As of January 2007, he is coach of Udinese Calcio of Serie A.

Malesani career as player was mostly spent on a Veronese amateur team Audace S. Michele, where he obtained a promotion from Serie D to Serie C in 1976/1977, appearing fourteen times on that season.^[1] He retired from playing football at the age of 24, and worked at Canon in Amsterdam, where he studied the Ajax Amsterdam total football training methods.^[2] He left his job at Canon in 1990 order to pursue a coaching career at Serie C1 team Chievo Verona for the Allieviì youth squad. In 1991, he is assistant of head coach Carlo De Angelis in the first team, and in 1993 he becomes head coach himself. His first season as head coach ended in a historical promotion to Serie B for then-unknown Chievo Verona. Malesani left Chievo in 1997, after three impressive Serie B seasons and a narrowly missed promotion in the Italian top division, in order to become Fiorentina's boss.

A good Fiorentina season convinced Parma to appoint Malesani as new head coach in 1998, where he won a Coppa Italia, a UEFA Cup, an Italian Super Cup and obtained two fourth places before being sacked in 2000/2001. He then coached Verona, Modena and Greek side Panathinaikos with much less success. During coaching Panathinaikos FC, the Greek sport press was constantly criticizing his tactics. After a draw against powerless Iraklis FC and during the post match press conference, Alberto Malesani had a unforgetable outburst of temper [1] (very similar to Giovanni Trapattoni's during his career in FC Bayern) against the fans and journalists which is still remembered by all Greek football fans. Although his unsuccessful career as Panathinaikos FC coach, Malesani in Greece is considered one of the most honest coaches and many fans admire his temperamental character.^{[citation needed]}

Malesani was appointed coach of Udinese on January 2007, as replacement for Giovanni Galeone.

• On his honeymoon, Malesani decided to go to Barcelona in order to watch Johan Cruijff's coaching sessions at Barcelona FC.
• During his coaching time at Panathinaikos, Malesani gained some popularity for a four-minutes-long press conference^[3] (made in Italian language) where he angrily attacked the supporting fanbase and the journalists, pronouncing 21 times the word cazzo (dick, used as an expletive in Italian).

1. ^ http://www.hellastory.net/pages/scheda.cfm?id=7D590D79-4854-12EA-BD663F99594DEB70
2. ^ http://www.tifonet.it/fiore/malesani/bio.htm
3. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQm9RJfoVoA Warning: Rough language - subtitles supplied in Greek