Paolo Zanetti

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Paolo Zanetti
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Zanetti with Ascoli in 2007
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-12-16) 16 December 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Valdagno, Italy
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Hellas Verona (head coach)
Youth career
–1997 Ponte dei Nori
1997–2001 Vicenza
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2001–2003 Vicenza 45 (1)
2003–2006 Empoli 52 (2)
2006–2007 Ascoli 29 (1)
2007–2011 Torino 72 (1)
2010 → Atalanta (loan) 2 (0)
2011–2012 Grosseto 14 (0)
2012–2013 Sorrento 13 (1)
2013–2014 Reggiana 27 (1)
Total254(7)
International career
2000 Italy U19 [1] 2 (0)
2000–2001 Italy U20 B [1] 2 (0)
2001–2002 Italy U20 [1] 13 (2)
2002–2003 Italy U21 [1] 5 (0)
Managerial career
2017–2019 Südtirol
2019–2020 Ascoli
2020–2022 Venezia
2022–2023 Empoli
2024– Hellas Verona
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Paolo Zanetti (born 16 December 1982) is an Italian professional football manager and former player, currently in charge as the head coach of Serie A club Hellas Verona. As a player, he played as a midfielder.

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Club career

Zanetti started his career at his hometown club Vicenza.

Empoli

Zanetti was sold to Empoli in a co-ownership deal in July 2003, [2] [3] for €671,400 fee (about 1.3 billion lire). [4]

In his first season with Empoli, he just made 13 appearances in Serie A. However, Empoli was relegated to Serie B at the end of the season and Zanetti followed the club.

Zanetti played 30 games in the 2004–05 Serie B season, helping the club to win promotion back to Serie A. However, he just made nine appearances for the club in Serie A in the following season. In June 2006, Empoli signed him outright from Vicenza, [5] for an additional €125,000 fee, [4] making Empoli had paid Vicenza €796,400 in total.

Ascoli

After acquiring the remaining 50% registration rights from Vicenza in June 2006 for an additional €125,000 transfer fee, [4] Empoli sold Zanetti to Ascoli in another co-ownership deal for €400,000 transfer fee in July. [6] [7]

Torino

In May 2007, Zanetti said he would stay on at Ascoli, despite them being relegated to Serie B. [8] Ascoli bought the full registration rights of the player for an additional €750,000 fee, (making the amount Ascoli had paid €1.15 million in total) [6] but sent Zanetti, along with Saša Bjelanović, to Torino in another co-ownership deals for €1 million fee each, in a five-year and three-year contract respectively. [9] In the middle of same season, Torino bought him outright for an additional €500,000 (making the amount that Torino paid Ascoli for Zanetti €1.5 million in total) [10] and Bjelanović was also bought by Torino for an additional €60,000 in June 2008. [10]

During 2009–10 season, the ultras of Torino attacked the players during David Di Michele's birthday party. [11] [12] After the incident, the players involved - Di Michele, Massimo Loviso, Riccardo Colombo, Aimo Diana, Marco Pisano, Francesco Pratali and Zanetti - were transferred to other clubs, and only Rolando Bianchi, Matteo Rubin and Angelo Ogbonna remained.

On 19 January 2010, Atalanta signed him on loan from Serie B club Torino until the end of the season. [13]

Grosseto

After being inactive from football for a season, Zanetti joined Grosseto on 8 August 2011 in a one-year deal. [14] Torino and Zanetti terminated the contract between the two parties by mutual consent. [15]

Sorrento

In January 2012, he was signed by Sorrento. [16] In May 2012 he signed a new two-year contract with Sorrento. [17]

Reggiana

On 23 January 2013, he was signed by Reggiana. [18] On 26 August 2013, he signed a new two-year contract. [19] On 18 November 2014 Zanetti retired and became a backroom staff of the first team (Italian : collaboratore tecnico di Prima Squadra). [20]

International career

Zanetti was a player of Azzurrini in 2001 UEFA European Under-18 Championship qualification [nb 1] He played twice. [1] After the elimination of Italy from the competition, he also played for the U-19 team (de facto U-20 B) in two friendlies, [1] against Netherlands (who still in the Euro U-19 competition) [21] and Germany respectively in March and May 2001. In the 2001–02 season, he played 13 times for the U-20 team, including matches in a four nations tournament. In the following season, he played once for the U-21 team in 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification as well as 3 friendlies. [1] In his only competitive appearance in the U-21 Euro, he was a substitute of Samuele Dalla Bona. [22] He played his final appearance in national team against Austria on 19 August 2003, another friendly match. [1]

Managerial career

After retiring, Zanetti stayed at Reggiana as a technical collaborator and then as a youth coach.

In 2017, Zanetti took on his first head coaching job at Serie C club Südtirol. After two seasons ended with two consecutive promotion playoff appearances, on 7 June 2019, he left Südtirol for Serie B club Ascoli. He was sacked by Ascoli on 27 January 2020 following a 0–1 home loss to Frosinone that left the club in the bottom half of the Serie B league table. [23]

On 27 May 2021, Zanetti secured Venezia's return to Serie A after a 2–1 aggregate win in the promotion play-off over Cittadella, thus ending their 19-year exile from the top flight. [24] On 27 April 2022, Zanetti was sacked by the club following a run of eight straight defeats that saw Venezia bottom of the Serie A table. [25]

On 6 June 2022, Serie A club Empoli, a former team of his as a player, announced they had hired Zanetti on a two-year deal as their new head coach. [26] After guiding Empoli to a mid-table placement in the club's 2022–23 Serie A campaign, Zanetti was dismissed on 19 September 2023 following a dismal start to the new season, with four losses in the first four games and following a 0–7 defeat against Roma. [27]

On 13 June 2024, Zanetti was unveiled as the new head coach of Hellas Verona, signing a one-year contract with an extension option for one further year. [28]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 31 August 2025[ citation needed ]
Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamNat.FromToRecord
GWDLGFGAGDWin %
Südtirol Flag of Italy.svg 6 July 20177 June 2019853529219575+20041.18
Ascoli Flag of Italy.svg 7 June 201927 January 202024103113734+3041.67
Venezia Flag of Italy.svg 14 August 202027 April 20228125253196111−15030.86
Empoli Flag of Italy.svg 1 July 202219 September 2023441013213965−26022.73
Hellas Verona Flag of Italy.svg 12 June 2024present42109233774−37023.81
Total2769079107304359−55032.61

Notes

  1. ↑ The event was renamed to U-19 from 2001 onward to reflect the age limit at the end of the season instead of the start of the season. i.e. age limit unchanged

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 FIGC archive (in Italian)
  2. ↑ "E' Paolo Zanetti il rinforzo per il centrocampo". Il Tirreno (in Italian). Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso. 12 July 2003. Archived from the original on 25 October 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Calcio Mercato 2003" [Football Market 2003](PDF) (in Italian). Lega Calcio. 17 July 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2003. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 Vicenza Calcio S.p.A. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2007, PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A. (in Italian)
  5. ↑ "partecipazioni 2006–07" (PDF) (in Italian). Lega Calcio. 20 June 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2006.
  6. 1 2 Empoli F.C. S.p.A. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 30 June 2007, PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A. (in Italian)
  7. ↑ "Mercato bianconero" [Market "White-Black"] (in Italian). Ascoli Calcio 1898. 7 July 2006. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  8. ↑ Ascoli midfielder Zanetti: I'll renew my contract, ontheminute.com, 24 May 2007
  9. ↑ Torino F.C. S.p.A. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 31 December 2007, PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A. (in Italian)
  10. 1 2 Torino F.C. S.p.A. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 31 December 2008, PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A. (in Italian)
  11. ↑ Turco, Fabrizio (7 January 2010). "Il Torino è senza pace Ora si parla di sciopero". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). RCSMedia Group. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
  12. ↑ "Torino fans in player restaurant attack". Soccernet. ESPN Inc. 7 January 2010. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
  13. ↑ "ZANETTI ALL'ATALANTA" (in Italian). Atalanta B.C. January 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
  14. ↑ "Paolo Zanetti al Grosseto" (in Italian). U.S. Grosseto F.C. 8 August 2011. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  15. ↑ Torino F.C. S.p.A. bilancio (financial report and accounts) on 31 December 2011, PDF purchased from Italian C.C.I.A.A.
  16. ↑ "ARRIVA PAOLO ZANETTI DAL GROSSETO" (in Italian). Sorrento Calcio. 31 January 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  17. ↑ Losco, Gianluca (15 May 2012). "ESCLUSIVA TMW - Zanetti continuerà con il Sorrento" (in Italian). Total Market Web. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  18. ↑ "Definito l'ingaggio di Zanetti" (in Italian). A.C. Reggiana 1919. 23 January 2013. Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  19. ↑ "Zanetti allunga al 2015, Panizzi alla SPAL" (in Italian). A.C. Reggiana 1919. 26 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  20. ↑ "Zanetti entra nello staff tecnico" (in Italian). A.C. Reggiana 1919. 18 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  21. ↑ "Uitslagen: Onder 19 [2000]". onsoranje.nl (in Dutch). KNVB. 2016. Archived from the original on 7 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  22. ↑ Match Report from FIGC archive (in Italian)
  23. ↑ "Comunicato: esonero per Paolo Zanetti". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 27 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  24. ↑ "Venezia promoted to Serie A". Football Italia. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  25. ↑ "Paolo Zanetti relieved of managerial duties". Venezia F.C. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  26. ↑ "Paolo Zanetti è il nuovo allenatore dell'Empoli" (in Italian). Empoli FC. 6 June 2022. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  27. ↑ "Comunicato ufficiale" (in Italian). Empoli FC. 19 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  28. ↑ "Paolo Zanetti è il nuovo allenatore dell'Hellas Verona". Hellas Verona FC. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
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