Jean-Michel Cavalli

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Jean-Michel Cavalli
Personal information
Date of birth (1957-07-13) 13 July 1957 (age 67)
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*
YearsTeamApps(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.

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Playing career

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.

Managerial career

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.

Personal life

Jean-Michel Cavalli comes from a family which had a history of professional football players. His uncle, Jean Cavalli  [ fr ], 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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References

  1. ↑ Jean-Michel Cavalli at FootballDatabase.eu OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Erreur 404". Archived from the original on 4 May 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  3. ↑ "Exclu - Jean-Michel Cavalli : "Je suis un homme de challenge, il me faut l'adrenaline"". 3 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "Football: Le Français Jean-Michel Cavalli à la tête de la sélection algérienne".
  5. ↑ "Equipe Nationale : Le Bilan de Jean-Michel Cavalli | Football algérien". Archived from the original on 12 June 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  6. ↑ "Jean Cavalli - football database.eu" . Retrieved 13 June 2023.
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