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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 16 April 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Gemonio, Italy | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back, left-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Legnago Salus (head coach) | ||
Youth career | |||
Milan | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1999–2001 | Milan | 0 | (0) |
1999–2000 | → Livorno (loan) | 15 | (0) |
2000–2001 | → SPAL (loan) | 17 | (0) |
2001–2002 | Monza | 25 | (0) |
2002–2003 | L'Aquila | 33 | (2) |
2003–2004 | Milan | 0 | (0) |
2003–2004 | → Avellino (loan) | 39 | (1) |
2004–2007 | Parma | 89 | (2) |
2007–2010 | Napoli | 75 | (1) |
2010–2011 | Zaragoza | 39 | (1) |
2011–2013 | Siena | 26 | (0) |
2013–2017 | Atalanta | 3 | (0) |
2013–2014 | → Juve Stabia (loan) | 27 | (0) |
2014–2015 | → Bari (loan) | 28 | (0) |
2015–2016 | → Bari (loan) | 18 | (0) |
2016–2017 | → Ternana (loan) | 21 | (0) |
2017 | Carrarese | 0 | (0) |
2017–2018 | Pergolettese | 10 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2018–2019 | Pergolettese | ||
2020 | Pergolettese | ||
2021–2022 | Giana Erminio | ||
2024– | Legnago Salus | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Matteo Contini (born 16 April 1980) is an Italian football coach and former player. He played as a centre-back or left-back. He is currently in charge as head coach of Serie C Group B club Legnago Salus.
Contini started his professional career in the A.C. Milan youth system. He was then farmed to Serie C1 teams Livorno (loan), SPAL (loan), Monza (co-ownership) and L'Aquila (co-ownership) between 1999 and 2003 and Serie B team Avellino in 2003–04 Serie B season.
Contini's 50% registration rights was bought by Parma in 2004 for €180,000 fee [1] [2] that became full ownership in 2005 for an additional fee of €400,000. [3] He played for Parma in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup and the 2006–07 UEFA Cup.
In 2007, Contini was signed by S.S.C. Napoli for €3.2 million. [4] He played for Napoli in Serie A as well as in the Italian Cup, 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup and 2008–09 UEFA Cup. [5]
On 27 January 2010 Contini was loaned to Real Zaragoza with option to purchase. [6] [7] [8]
On 8 July 2010, Zaragoza made the purchase option, for €2 million [9] and signed Contini on a three-year deal. [10]
On 8 August 2011, after a year and a half in Spain, Contini returned to Italy, taken from Siena on a season-long loan for €300,000 [11] [12] with option to buy the registration rights. [13] He wore number 80 shirt for 2011–12 Serie A. [14] In July 2012, Contini signed a permanent deal with Siena, which the club declared the total cost including misc cost was €1,374,239. [11] He signed a two-year contract. Contini changed to wear number 22 in 2012–13 Serie A. [15]
Six months after joining Siena definitively, Contini joined Atalanta for €1 million in an initial 3+1⁄2-year contract. [16] [17] [18] Contini kept to use number 22 shirt for "blue-black". [19] On 30 August 2013, he went on loan to Juve Stabia. [20]
In the next three seasons, he was loaned to Bari (twice) [21] [22] [23] and Ternana. [24] [25]
He retired in 2018 after a season with Serie D amateurs Pergolettese.
After retirement, he stayed at Pergolettese as a youth coach. On 6 November 2018, he was promoted to head coach of the Serie D club and guided his club to promotion to Serie C by the end of the season. He was dismissed on 12 November 2019 after the club started their Serie C season with five draws and nine losses in the first 14 games. [26] He was re-hired by Pergolettese on 19 June 2020. [27] He resigned from Pergolettese on 15 November 2020. [28]
On 11 November 2021, he was hired by Serie C club Giana Erminio. [29] After suffering relegation to Serie D following a 2–4 aggregate loss Trento in the playoffs, on 27 May 2022 Giana Erminio announced Contini's departure from the club. [30]
On 27 September 2024, Contini returned to management as the new head coach of struggling Serie C club Legnago Salus. [31]