Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 13 July 1957 | ||
Place of birth | Ajaccio, France | ||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder [1] | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Prishtina (manager) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1971–1975 | Gazélec Ajaccio | ||
1975–1976 | Monaco | ||
1976–1977 | Boulogne-Billancourt | ||
1977–1978 | CSM Puteaux | ||
1978–1979 | FC Solenzara | ||
1979–1990 | Gazélec Ajaccio | ||
Managerial career | |||
1990–1991 | Gazélec Ajaccio | ||
1994 | Al-Nassr | ||
1994–1995 | Lille (assistant) | ||
1995–1997 | Lille | ||
1997–1998 | Al-Riyadh | ||
1998–1999 | Gazélec Ajaccio | ||
2000 | Gazélec Ajaccio | ||
2000–2001 | RC Paris | ||
2002 | Ionikos | ||
2003–2005 | US Créteil | ||
2005–2006 | Triestina | ||
2006–2007 | Algeria | ||
2007–2008 | Wydad AC | ||
2008–2010 | Nîmes | ||
2009 | Corsica | ||
2012–2013 | Gazélec Ajaccio | ||
2014–2015 | MC Oran | ||
2015–2016 | Al-Hilal Omdurman | ||
2016 | USM Alger | ||
2017 | Al-Ittihad Alexandria | ||
2019 | MC Oran | ||
2020–2023 | Niger | ||
2024 | Club Africain | ||
2024– | Prishtina | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jean-Michel Cavalli (born 13 July 1957) is a French and Corsican football manager and former player who is the manager of Kosovo Superleague club Prishtina.
Cavalli started his playing career at the now-defunct Gazélec Ajaccio in 1971, [2] also turning out for Corsican sides Bastia SCB (1977–78) and Solenzara (1978–79) before a second spell at Gazélec. In that second spell, Cavalli would spend five years as club captain.
In his final few years as a player, the club hierarchy at Gazélec encouraged Cavalli to shadow then head coach Guy Calléja. In 1990, when Calléja was unable to continue in the role, Cavalli was promoted to manager - overseeing both the professionalisation of the football club [3] and ensuring that Gazélec were able to stay in Division 2 in a period of great transition.
His first taste of international management would take place when he took charge of Algeria in 2005. [4] [5] Cavalli coached the Corsica national team, not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA, in a 2009 friendly against Congo.
Jean-Michel Cavalli comes from a family which had a history of professional football players. His uncle, Jean Cavalli , won the 1935 Coupe de France with Olympique de Marseille, primarily as a rotational player. [6] His son is the former professional football player Johan Cavalli, who is the current Sporting Director at AC Ajaccio. When Jean-Michel took the reins of the Corsican national team in 2009, Johan was one of the players in the starting XI.
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