Michele Fini

Michele Fini

Fini in 2010
Personal information
Date of birth	(1974-06-14) 14 June 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth	Sorso, Italy
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1992–1993	Sorso
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1995	Torres	31	(5)
1995–1997	Ancona	52	(2)
1998–2000	Salernitana	10	(0)
1999	→ Cosenza (loan)	6	(0)
2000	Fermana	3	(0)
2000–2001	Avellino	28	(2)
2001–2004	Catania	97	(8)
2004–2007	Ascoli	107	(6)
2007–2009	Cagliari	66	(6)
2009–2011	Siena	17	(1)
2011–2013	Porto Torres	23	(0)
Total		440	(30)
Managerial career
2014–2015	Bologna (assistant)
2017	Palermo (technical staff)
2017	Cagliari (assistant)
2018–2019	Peñarol (assistant)
2020	Brescia (assistant)
2020	Brescia (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Michele Fini (born 14 June 1974) is an Italian football coach and former player.

Playing career

Fini was born in Sorso, Province of Sassari. A midfielder, started his career at Sardinian clubs. In summer 1995 he was signed by Ancona. In January 1998 he was signed by Salernitana of Serie B. Fini's debut in Serie A and last match for Salernitana was on 26 September 1998 in a match against Udinese the score was 2–0.

He was transferred to Cagliari from Ascoli Calcio 1898 in 2007, signed a two-year deal. ^[1] He scored six goals in sixty six appearances in his time at the club. On 9 July 2009, A.C. Siena signed the midfielder from Cagliari Calcio on a two-year deal. ^[2] After his spell at Siena, Fini returned to his home province of Sassari and spent the remainder of his career playing for Serie D side A.C. Porto Torres. He formally retired in July 2014 at the age of 40 to take up the assistant manager position at Bologna F.C.

Managerial career

On 3 July 2014, Bologna manager Luis Diego López appointed Fini as the club's assistant manager. Fini departed the club the following year after López's removal.

In January 2017 he was appointed as a member of Palermo's technical staff, a position which he left in October of that year to rejoin López as assistant manager, this time at his former club Cagliari. Fini followed López, with whom he moved to López homeland, Uruguay, in early June 2018, joining Peñarol. ^[3] Starting from five points behind arch-rivals Club Nacional de Football, they led the club to a league title by beating that adversary 1–0 in the final. ^[4] After losing by the same margin to Nacional in the next edition, López announced his exit in December 2019 together with his staff, including Fini. ^[5]

On 5 February 2020, Fini and López returned to Serie A, signing with second-from-bottom Brescia Calcio after the dismissal of Eugenio Corini. ^[6] López and Fini was fired on 20 August 2020. However, they were hired again on 6 October 2020. ^[7] Two months later, the duo was fired for the second time. ^[8]

Honours

Salernitana

• Serie B: 1997–98

Ascoli

• Serie B promotion to Serie A: 2004–05

Catania

• Serie C1 promotion Serie B playoff: 2001–02

Peñarol

• Uruguayan Championship Championship: 2018

Individual

• Serie A top assist provider: 2008–09 (13 assists) ^[9]

References

1. "Fini è del Cagliari 2 anni di contratto" (in Italian). cagliaricalcio.net. 28 June 2007. Retrieved 11 July 2009.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
2. "Mercato: formalizzato l'arrivo di Fini" (in Italian). acsiena.it. 10 July 2009. Archived from the original on 24 July 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
3. Savia, Jorge (8 June 2018). "Vida y obra de Diego López, el flamante director técnico aurinegro" [Life and work of Diego López, the brand new yellow-and-black head coach]. Ecos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 June 2018.
4. "Diego López, de incógnita a conquistador" [Diego López, from unknown to conqueror]. El Observador (in Spanish). 13 November 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
5. "Diego López se despidió del club" [Diego López says farewell to the club] (in Spanish). La Red 21. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
6. "Brescia sack Corini, appoint Diego Lopez". ANSA. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
7. Diego López è il nuovo allenatore delle Rondinelle, bresciacalcio.it, 6 October 2020
8. Official: Brescia sack Lopez, football-italia.net, 7 December 2020
9. "Italian Serie A Statistics". ESPN FC. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

Sources

• Fini's profile at "Gazzetta dello Sport" (in Italian) at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 September 2007)
• gazzetta.it
• Michele Fini at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)
• sportsya.com at archive.today (archived 31 May 2009)