Michele Santoni

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Michele Santoni
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Santoni in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-05-18) 18 May 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Arco, Italy
Team information
Current team
 Triestina (head coach)
Managerial career
YearsTeam
2008–2009 Haarlem
2009–2014 Ajax (video analyst)
2014 Livorno (assistant)
2014–2015 Cesena (assistant)
2015–2016 Lazio (youth)
2016 Inter (video analyst)
2018–2019 Almere City
2020 ADO Den Haag (assistant)
2021–2024 FC Dordrecht
2024– Triestina

Michele Santoni (born 18 May 1980) is an Italian-Dutch football manager who manages Serie C Group A club Triestina.

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Career

In 2008, Santoni was appointed youth manager of the Dutch second division side Haarlem, where he said, "In the Netherlands, it is structure, structure, structure, structure." [1]

In 2009, he was appointed video analyst of Ajax, the most successful club in the Netherlands.

In 2014, Santoni was appointed assistant of Italian Serie A outfit Livorno, where he said, "In Italy, there is much more improvisation; it goes by feel." [1] After that, he was appointed youth manager of Lazio in the Italian Serie A, where he said, "Lazio's facilities were a disaster. We only had one artificial grass pitch and no hot water. Politics also plays a major role there, as a result of which the youth academy is not 100 percent about talent development. Then that player had to be added because his father sponsors the club, and then another player from a big agent came in just to keep that agent happy. Typically Italian", before being appointed video analyst of Inter, one of Italy's most successful teams. [1]

In 2018, Santoni was appointed manager of Almere City in the Dutch second division. After that, he was appointed assistant of Dutch side ADO Den Haag.

In 2021, he was appointed manager of FC Dordrecht in the Netherlands. [2] After three years in the Dutch second division, Santoni departed in May 2024 to become the new head coach of Italian Serie C club Triestina on a two-year contract. [3]

Personal life

Born in Arco, Trentino, Santoni is the son of an Italian father and a Dutch mother and is fluent in Italian, Dutch and English. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Van Ajax tot Internazionale: de carrière van video-analist en coach Michele Santoni". vice.com. 7 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Bomgaars, Arco (8 June 2021). "Michele Santoni trainer FC Dordrecht; Leon Vlemmings innovatiemanager". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "Michele Santoni è il nuovo allenatore della Triestina Calcio" (in Italian). ANSA. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  4. ↑ ""Italia e Olanda, ecco il mio mix". Santoni e l'Almere City, che sfida" (in Italian). GianlucaDiMarzio.com. 9 November 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
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