Michele Fini
 Michele Fini in 2010 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 June 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Sorso, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Brescia (assistant) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1992–1993 | Sorso | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1995 | Torres | 31 | (5) |
| 1995–1997 | Ancona | 52 | (2) |
| 1998–2000 | Salernitana | 10 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Cosenza (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2000 | Fermana | 3 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Avellino | 28 | (2) |
| 2001–2004 | Catania | 97 | (8) |
| 2004–2007 | Ascoli | 107 | (6) |
| 2007–2009 | Cagliari | 66 | (6) |
| 2009–2011 | Siena | 17 | (1) |
| 2011–2013 | Porto Torres | 23 | (0) |
| Total | 440 | (30) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2014–2015 | Bologna (assistant) | ||
| 2017 | Palermo (technical staff) | ||
| 2017 | Cagliari (assistant) | ||
| 2018–2019 | Peñarol (assistant) | ||
| 2020– | Brescia (assistant) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Michele Fini (born 14 June 1974 in Sorso, Province of Sassari) is an Italian football coach and former midfielder. Fini is currently assistant coach of Brescia Calcio.
Playing career
Fini started his career at Sardinian clubs. In summer 1995 he was signed by Ancona. In January 1998 he was signed by Salernitana of Serie B. Fini's debut in Serie A and last match for Salernitana was on 26 September 1998 in a match against Udinese the score was 2–0
He was transferred to Cagliari from Ascoli Calcio 1898 in 2007, signed a two-year deal.[1] He scored six goals in sixty six appearances in his time at the club. On 9 July 2009 A.C. Siena signed the midfielder from Cagliari Calcio on a two-year deal.[2] After his spell at Siena, Fini returned to his home province of Sassari and spent the remainder of his career playing for Serie D side A.C. Porto Torres. He formally retired in July 2014 at the age of 40 to take up the assistant manager position at Bologna F.C.
Managerial career
On 3 July 2014 Bologna manager Luis Diego López appointed Fini as the club's assistant manager. Fini departed the club the following year after López's removal.
In January 2017 he was appointed as a member of Palermo's technical staff, a position which he left in October of that year to rejoin López as assistant manager, this time at his former club Cagliari. Fini followed López, with whom he moved to López homeland, Uruguay, in early June 2018, joining Peñarol.[3] Starting from five points behind arch-rivals Club Nacional de Football, they led the club to a league title by beating that adversary 1–0 in the final.[4] After losing by the same margin to Nacional in the next edition, López announced his exit in December 2019 together with his staff, including Fini.[5]
On 5 February 2020, Fini and López returned to Serie A, signing with second-from-bottom Brescia Calcio after the dismissal of Eugenio Corini.[6]
Honours
Club
- Salernitana
- Ascoli
- Serie B promotion to Serie A: 2004–05
- Catania
- Serie C1 promotion Serie B playoff winner: 2001–02
- Uruguayan Championship Championship winner: 2018
Individual
References
- ^ "Fini è del Cagliari 2 anni di contratto" (in Italian). cagliaricalcio.net. 2007-06-28. Retrieved 2009-07-11.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Mercato: formalizzato l'arrivo di Fini" (in Italian). acsiena.it. 2009-07-10. Archived from the original on July 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ^ Savia, Jorge (8 June 2018). "Vida y obra de Diego López, el flamante director técnico aurinegro" [Life and work of Diego López, the brand new yellow-and-black head coach]. Ecos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "Diego López, de incógnita a conquistador" [Diego López, from unknown to conqueror]. El Observador (in Spanish). 13 November 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
- ^ "Diego López se despidió del club" [Diego López says farewell to the club] (in Spanish). La Red 21. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
- ^ "Brescia sack Corini, appoint Diego Lopez". ANSA. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "Italian Serie A Statistics". ESPN FC. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
Sources
- (in Italian) Fini's profile at "Gazzetta dello Sport"
- http://www.gazzetta.it/speciali/statistiche/2008_nw/giocatori/2440.shtml
- http://www.tuttocalciatori.net/Fini_Michele
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- Living people
- People from Sorso
- Italian footballers
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- Serie B players
- A.C. Ancona players
- U.S. Salernitana 1919 players
- Cosenza Calcio 1914 players
- U.S. Avellino 1912 players
- Calcio Catania players
- Ascoli Calcio 1898 F.C. players
- Cagliari Calcio players
- Association football midfielders
- Footballers from Sardinia
- S.E.F. Torres 1903 players
- Italian football midfielder, 1970s birth stubs