Cesare Prandelli

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Cesare Claudio Prandelli (born 19 August 1957) is an Italian football coach and former player.

He was the head of Genoa last year.

Personal life

Prandelli, a widower who was married to Manuela Caffi, a woman he had seen in his hometown of Orzinuovi when he was 18 and she 15, was a widower. They married in 1982, with footballers Antonio Cabrini and Domenico Pezzolla attending the celebration, and they had two children named Carolina and Nicol. Prandelli's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, and she resigned from his coaching post at Roma just days after his appointment. Her illness worsened and she died on November 26, 2007 in Florence, after a short recovery. Fiorentina traveled to Athens on 29 November to face Greek side AEK Athens, with Prandelli's assistant Gabriele Pin deputizing for him. Prandelli's wife's funeral was attended by the Fiorentina crew as well as her personal friends. The team was shaken by the event.

Prandelli's son, Nicol, has also embarked on an off-pitch football career, having been recruited by Parma in 2009 and then by the Italy national team during the 2012 championships.

Prandelli is a devout Catholic. He has been in a dating with Novella Benini as of 2010. In 2012, Prandelli wrote a preface to a new book on homosexuality in sport by Alessandro Cecchi Paone and Flaviao Pagano, claiming that "Homophobia is racism and it is vital that we investigate further into human behavior, including sports figures." There is already a taboogle surrounding homosexuality in both football and sport in general. Everyone should live happily with themselves, their aspirations, and their sentiments. We must all strive for a sports culture that honors the individual in every facet of his truth and liberty. Any players will be out soon, so it's likely that some will be released soon."

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Career

Prandelli, a midfielder who went from Atalanta to Juventus in 1979, was a midfielder who moved from Atalanta to Juventus. Juventus's first game for the 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup was against Raba ETO Gyr. He spent six seasons with Juventus, his last game in the 1984-85 Coppa Italia against Milan was in 1984.

Prandelli also appeared in 197 Serie A matches.

Prandelli began his career as a youth coach for Atalanta, achieving great success from 1990 to 1996, save for a seven-month parenthesis, in which he served as a caretaker for the first team and then relegated to Serie B. Prandelli led Lecce's gialloblu to an immediate promotion to Serie A, and then to a solid ninth-place finish next year following a disappointing 1997–98 bad season as Lecce's head coach ended in a dismissal in January 1998. He then spent two years with Parma.

He left the team early in the 2004–05 season, despite her being critically ill.

In 2005, Prandelli took over Fiorentina as the head manager. Prandelli converted Fiorentina from relegation sufferers to a team worthy of a UEFA Champions League spot, finishing the season in fourth place in his first season in Tuscany. Fiorentina and Prandelli lost a 15-point penalty as a result of the Calciopoli match-fixing fiasco, but Fiorentina was still missing its Champions League spot and began the 2006–07 season in Serie A.

Despite the points deduction, Prandelli was able to lead Fiorentina to a sixth-place finish in Serie A (with the same number as fifth placed Palermo), winning UEFA Cup qualification for the 2007-08 season. The team did well in the competition, losing in a penalty shootout against Rangers in the semi-finals. The team finished fourth in Serie A after winning a long fight against Milan and earning a ticket to participate in the 2008–09 Champions League following a season in which his wife died.

Prandelli was named the Serie A Coach of the Year at the "Oscar del calcio" awards in early 2009. Fiorentina was later promoted to the third qualifying round after beating Slavia Prague in the third qualifying round, but Fiorentina was then ranked third in the Champions League qualifying rounds for the second time in consecutive appearances. Prandelli's tenure as Fiorentina became the longest of all incumbent Serie A managers following Carlo Ancelotti's resignation.

Prandelli defeated Fulvio Bernardini as Fiorentina's longest-serving boss in 2009, guiding the viola to a landmark qualification in the 2009–10 Champions League's round, where it was defeated by Bayern Munich (which later advanced to the final) under the away goals rule. Prandelli, on the other hand, did not manage to repeat such successes on the domestic level, with situations made even more difficult by his main player Adrian Mutu being suspended due to doping-related issues. Fiorentina finished the 2009-10 Serie A in 11th place, far removed from the top teams in the competition.

After the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Fiorentina reported that Prandelli was given permission to hold talks with Italian Football Federation (FIGC) president Giancarlo Abete to replace Marcello Lippi as head coach of Italy's national team. After the World Cup, the FIGC revealed on May 30th that Prandelli would replace Lippi at the head of the Azzurri. At the Boleyn Ground, London, his official debut arrived on August 10th, 2010, defeating the Ivory Coast in a friendly match that culminated in a 0–1 loss.

Italy came from behind to defeat Estonia 2–1. The match against Serbia was marred by crowd disturbances, and UEFA awarded Italy a 3–0 win, putting them in pole position of their group. Italy defeated Slovenia 1–0 on March 25 to clinch top spot in the qualification table. "The time has come for us to have faith in the former greats of our football and learn from them," Prandelli said in Slovenia. Despite the fact that preparations for the Euro 2012 finals in Poland and Ukraine were marred by domestic match rigging scandals, Prandelli succeeded in restoring respect to the national team after six years of relative famine by unexpectedly leading it to the final. Following a tactical change, Italy dominated a goalless encounter against England, gaining 2–1 points against Spain and Croatia, and a 2–0 victory over the Republic of Ireland; following the tactical change, the team reverted to a more robust, offensive-minded, possession-based strategy, which used a 4–4–2 diamond; later, the team regained control of a striking 2–1 win over Germany, in which Prandelli's special protégé Mario Balotelli lost a, after finishing second in a 2–1–1–1–1–1–1–2–1–1–2–2–2 victory over 2–2 victory over the Republic of Ireland, winning by a 2–2–2–2–1–1–2–3–4–3–4–4–4–4–4–3–1 in a 2–3–1–2–3–1–2–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–2–1–1–1–3–1–1–2–2–1–1–1–2–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–1–2–1–1–1–3–3–1–2–1–1–4–1–1–1–1–1–2–1–1–2–1–4–1–3–2–2–3–3–2–1–1–1–2–1–1–2–2–2–2–1–2–3–1–1–4–1–1–1–4–2–1–1–4–1–3–3–4–2–4–2–1–4–1–1–3–2–3–1–2–1–4–1–2–1–4–1–3–1–4–1–2–1–1–2–1–4–1–3–1–1–3–3–1–1–2–1–1–1–2–1–3–2–4–1–3–2–1–1–4–1–2–2–3–2–4–1–1–1–4–1–1–3–1–2–1–1–2–1–2–1–4–1–2–1–4–4–2–3–1–2–2–3–1–1–2–1–4–1–3–4–3–1–1–2–1–3–3–2–1–1–1–1–1–2–1–3–3–1–1–4–1–2–2–3–4–3–3–1–3–1–2–1–2–1–1–3–2–4–3–1–3–4–1–3–4–1–2–3–4–3–4–1–1–1–3–1–4–4–3–3–4–2–1–1–1–3–1–1–2–4–4–1–4–1–1–4–2–3–3–3–3–3–1–1–4–1–3–4–1–1–3–1–2–3–4–3–2–2–3–4–1–1–3–4–2–1–2–1–3–4–1–3–1–1–4–1–1–4–1–3–4–4–2–1–4–1–4–3–1–4–3–4–4–1–2–3–1–1–3–1–1–2–3–4–2–1–1–1–3–4–1–2–3–2–1–2–1–3–1–1–1–2–1–4–2–1–3–1–4–2–3–2–3–1–4–4–2–3–4–1–2–1–1–1–3–2–1–2–3–4–1–3–4–1–1–1–1–1–1–2–3–2–1–1–4–1–2–1–3–3–4–4–2–4–2–3–1–2–3–2–3–2–1–1–1– Despite losing 4–0 to Spain in the final, Prandelli was able to bring the team back to Italy amid widespread applause to receive President Giorgio Napolitano's personal compliments at a formal reception in the Quirinal Palace.

Prandelli had agreed a two-year contract extension that would keep the Italian team in charge until Euro 2016. After losing 1–0 to Uruguay, which had barred Italy from the World Cup in the group stage, he resigned as Italy's head on June 24, 2014.

Prandelli took over Galatasaray's new Italian coach Roberto Mancini on July 3, 2014, after the former Italian coach Roberto Mancini was fired on July 3rd. However, he would only spend 147 days as boss after being fired on November 28, 2014. His league results were certainly not bad: his team won six games, one draw, and three losses, resulting in third place in the Süper Lig, just behind Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş. The team under Prandelli had one of the worst seasons in the Champions League, with two 4–1 losses to Arsenal and 4–1 losses to Borussia Dortmund, leaving the team with a single point and a 12 goal difference in six games. Prandelli's statement that "the Turkish league is our priority" was not well received by the fans and the club board, as Galatasaray is often regarded as Turkey's "European team" of the Turkish league, being Turkey's most profitable club in European tournaments. In the media, Prandelli's tactics and player picks were also chastised, as he tried new lineups in 16 games he ruled. Hamza Hamzaolu's successor led the team to both league and cup championships. Players have expressed their dissatisfaction with Prandelli's work in the media several times.

Prandelli was appointed as the head of Valencia, Spain's La Liga team, on September 28th. He resigned after only ten games on December 31, 2016.

Prandelli, the Emirates Arabian Gulf League player, was appointed manager of Al-Nasr Dubai on May 25, 2017.

Prandelli was appointed Genoa's chief on December 7, 2018. On June 20, 2019, his employment was ended.

Following Giuseppe Iachini's dismissal, Prandelli returned to Fiorentina as boss on November 9, 2020. He resigned after a 2–3 home loss to AC Milan on March 23, 2021, implying that his decision to be motivated by personal reasons and a sense of sadness, as well as hinting at the fact that it may have been his last job as a coach in his career.

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