Christian Damiano

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Christian Damiano
Personal information
Date of birth (1950-03-09) 9 March 1950 (age 74)
Place of birth Antibes, France
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1963–1964 Cagnes  [ fr ]
1964–1970 Nice
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1967–1974 Nice B
Managerial career
1974–1983 Nice (assistant)
1983–1986 Stade Raphaëlois
1986–1990 INF Vichy
1990–1992 INF Clairefontaine
1992–1994 France U16
1994–1998 France U18
1998–1999 France U17
1999–2000 Nice
2000–2003 Fulham (assistant)
2003–2004 Liverpool (assistant)
2004–2005 Southampton (assistant)
2007 Parma (assistant)
2007–2009 Juventus (assistant)
2009–2011 Roma (assistant)
2011–2012 Inter Milan (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Christian Damiano (born 9 March 1950) is a French former professional football player and manager.

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Playing career

As a player, Damiano was a defender. Early in his youth career, he played for Cagnes  [ fr ], but he would then join the youth academy of Nice. He played for the B team of the club in the early 1970s. [1]

Managerial career

Damiano stopped playing football in 1974, at the age of 24. From 1974 to 1983, he was simultaneously head of the youth academy and assistant manager of the first team of Nice. From 1983 to 1986, he would then coach Stade Raphaëlois. [1] He would also have various roles at the French Football Federation in this time period.

In 1986, Damiano became a coach at INF Vichy, a football academy. However, after it closed in 1990, he went to work as a coach for its counterpart INF Clairefontaine for two years. [1] From 1992 to 1999, Damiano was a coach at several youth teams of France. In 1999, he was the first-team manager of Nice, and also the assistant manager until 2000. [1]

Damiano first moved to England in 2000 when he was appointed assistant to Jean Tigana at Fulham, and remained at the club until Tigana's departure in 2003. He then returned to work alongside Gérard Houllier again (as they had crossed paths as coaches in France youth teams), this time as an assistant coach at Liverpool, although he departed along with the manager in 2004. He was soon appointed to assist Steve Wigley at Southampton. He was briefly linked with the manager's job of the Australian national team, [2] although he ultimately lost out to Guus Hiddink. Damiano would then go on to work as assistant manager under Claudio Ranieri from 2007 to 2012: he followed him at Parma, Juventus, Roma, and Inter Milan. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Christian Damiano at FootballDatabase.eu
  2. ↑ "Soccer Hut :: A French coach to take the Roos job". Archived from the original on 1 January 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2006.
  3. ↑ "AS Roma Official Website".
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