Francesco Monaco
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 6 May 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Latiano, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Playing position | Manager, former midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1977–1979 | Squinzano | 64 | (2) |
| 1979–1980 | Sampdoria | 4 | (0) |
| 1980–1981 | Novara | 31 | (0) |
| 1981–1984 | Teramo | 88 | (15) |
| 1984–1986 | Lucchese | 60 | (5) |
| 1986–1987 | Lanciano | 30 | (0) |
| 1987–1995 | Lucchese | 234 | (1) |
| 1995–1997 | Forlì | 31 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2005–2006 | Lanciano | ||
| 2006 | Ancona | ||
| 2007–2009 | Ancona | ||
| 2009 | Potenza | ||
| 2010–2011 | Carrarese | ||
| 2011-2012 | Piacenza | ||
| 2012-2013 | Foligno | ||
| 2014-2015 | Piacenza | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Francesco Monaco (born 6 May 1960 in Latiano, Province of Brindisi) is a former player and Italian association football manager.
Career
Player
Monaco has been a former player in the lower ranks of Italian professional football of Squinzano, Sampdoria, Novara, Teramo, Lucchese, Lanciano and Forlì.
Coach
Monaco successively entered into a coaching career, serving as assistant coach of Lucchese during the 2000–01 season and then as Ascoli's youth coach until 2005. In July 2005 he took his first head coaching job at Serie C1's Lanciano, then working as head coach of A.C. Ancona from July to December 2006, and again from March 2007 to May 2009, leading the biancorossi to promotion to Serie B in 2008, before being sacked due to poor results on May 2009.[1][2] His successive coaching experience was at the helm of Potenza on Prima Divisione, where he replaced Ezio Capuano for a bare month (from September to October 2009).
In July 2010 he was appointed new head coach of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Carrarese.[3]
In summer 2011 he was appointed new head coach of Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Piacenza until the end of the season.
On 16 October 2012 he was named new coach of Foligno in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.
On 16 June 2014 he was renamed new coach of Piacenza in Serie D.
References
- ↑ "COPPA ITALIA TIM 2008/09" (doc) (in Italian). Empoli FC. 13 August 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ↑ "Esonerato mister Monaco. Al suo posto arriva Salvioni" (in Italian). AC Ancona. 3 May 2009. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ↑ "Francesco Monaco è il nuovo allenatore della Carrarese" (in Italian). Radio Bruno Toscana. 25 July 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
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