Nicolò Napoli

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Nicolò Napoli
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Nicolò Napoli 2009
Personnel
birthday February 7, 1962
place of birth PalermoItaly
size 182 cm
position Right full-back
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1983 FC Messina 71 0(4)
1983 SS Cavese 2 0(0)
1983-1984 Benevento Calcio 27 0(3)
1984-1987 FC Messina 104 (16)
1987-1991 Juventus Turin 62 0(6)
1991-1996 Cagliari Calcio 148 0(9)
1996-1997 Reggina Calcio 29 0(0)
1997-1998 US Tempio 3 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2002 Moncalieri Calcio
2003 FC Vado
2004 FC Universitatea Craiova
2005-2007 Orbassano Calcio
2007-2009 FC Universitatea Craiova
2009 FC Brasov
2009-2010 Astra Ploiesti
2011 FC Universitatea Craiova
1 Only league games are given.

Nicolò Napoli (born February 7, 1962 in Palermo ) is a former Italian football player and current coach . He denied 210 games in Serie A and won in 1990 the UEFA Cup .

Career as a player

Napoli's career began in 1980 at the age of 18 with FC Messina in the Italian Serie C2 . There he became a regular player in the 1981/82 season and made promotion to Serie C1 with his club in 1983 . After the promotion, SS Cavese signed him from Serie B , but where he only came on two missions and in October 1983 moved to Benevento Calcio in Serie C1. In the summer of 1984 he returned to Messina. After the missed promotion in 1985, he rose with his team to Serie B a year later. There he was able to defend his regular place and finished the 1986/87 season in the front midfield.

In 1987, the top Italian club Juventus Turin signed Napoli. There it was only used irregularly and could not assert itself in the long term. Although he could not win the championship with the club, he won the Italian Cup and the UEFA Cup in 1990 .

After four years, Napoli left Turin in 1991 and joined league rivals Cagliari Calcio . There he became a regular and made it into the UEFA Cup a year later with the club after relegation in 1992 . There he was eliminated with his team in the semifinals against the eventual winner Inter Milan . The following seasons ended the club in the middle of the Serie A . After five years in Cagliari, he moved to Reggina Calcio in Serie B and finally ended his career at US Tempio in 1998 in Serie C2.

Career as a coach

After the end of his playing career, Napoli began a career as a football coach. After two positions in the Italian Serie D , he became head coach of FC Universitatea Craiova in the Romanian League 1 at the beginning of 2004 as the successor to Pavel Badea . After a draw and two defeats, he was released at the end of March 2004 and replaced by Mircea Rednic . Napoli returned to Italy and coached Orbassano Calcio in Serie D from 2005 to 2007, where he twice missed promotion to Serie C2 in the play-offs .

In October 2007, Napoli became the head coach of Universitatea Craiova for the second time. He ended the 2007/08 season in midfield. In the following season he was lying in sixth place three game days before the end of the season and was replaced by his assistant coach Ionel Gane . He then hired in the summer of 2009 at league rivals FC Brașov , but resigned before the start of the season. A month later, Astra Ploieşti signed him to succeed Ion Moldovan . On April 19, 2010 he was released from the relegation-threatened club and replaced by Marin Barbu . In January 2011, Napoli succeeded Eugen Neagoe as coach of Universitatea Craiova again.

successes

As a player

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ProSport from April 19, 2010 , accessed on August 6, 2011 (Romanian)