Massimiliano Allegri: Career Italian football player and coach

Massimiliano Allegri (see below photo.) - Italian former professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder. In the period from 1984 to 2003. She performed in many Italian clubs. Throughout his football career he never played in other leagues. Since 2004, conducts coaching activities. He is currently the head coach of the Turin "Juventus".

Biography: early football career

Massimiliano Allegri was born August 11, 1967 in Livorno, Italy. At the age of fourteen he was admitted to the football academy "Kuoyopelli", where until 1984 he played at the youth level, and in 1985 he made his debut in the adult team.

Professional career

After spending most of his career in the lower leagues, including the club of his native city of Livorno, Massimiliano Allegri has joined the "Pescara" in 1991. Here he established himself as one of the best midfielders in the team, and with it has achieved increase in Serie A in 1992 with the senior coach Giovanni Galeone.

Allegri has been an outstanding performer for the "Pescara" in the Italian championship. Despite the departure from Serie A to the last place, the team scored a lot of goals, Allegri has scored 12 goals from midfield. He then played for "Cagliari", "Perugia" and "Napoli", before going back into the "Pescara". Before the completion of a career spent short periods in the lower divisions clubs "Pistoiese" and "Alyaneze" in 2003.

Career Coach

Massimiliano Allegri's coaching career began in 2004 as a team Serie C2 "Alyaneze" - the club where he spent two years as a footballer. After an impressive season, Allegri was invited to lead the club "Grosseto", speaking in Serie C1. His work with "byankorossi" was not as successful as with "Alyaneze", so it was removed after the start of the season 2006/0007. After the departure of "Grosseto" Allegri decided to join his mentor Giovanni Galleon in "Udinese" and became part of his coaching staff. However, in practice it turned out to be a prohibited act by the Italian football laws because he was still under contract with the Tuscan club. Owing to this situation, Massimiliano Allegri was disqualified.

coaching career in "Sassuolo"

In August 2007, Allegri became head coach of ambitious Serie C1 team "Sassuolo", which he managed to lead quickly to the top league position. April 27, 2008 the first "black-green" in advance of the end of the tournament won 2007-08Cerii C1 championship, thereby securing a ticket to Serie B - it was the first title in the history of "neroverdi".

Career for "Cagliari"

May 29, 2008 Massimiliano was announced as the new head coach, "Cagliari" in Serie A, replacing Davide Ballardini. Despite the bad start with five defeats in the first five games, the coach was at the club, as the owner Massimo Cellino "red-blue" Allegri decided to give another chance. By December, the team rose to the middle of the table.

December 9 after a home win 1: 0 over Palermo "Cagliari" announced the extension of the preliminary two-year contract with Massimiliano Allegri June 1, 2011.

2008-09 Season in "Cagliari" finished in an impressive ninth place, which was seen as a great result, because in the team was not of high quality and experienced players. These results led to the award of a trophy Allegri Panchina d'Oro (golden bench), which is awarded to the best coach in accordance with the vote of all coaches in Serie A.

The following season, Allegri again won the prize of the best coach in Serie A. The composition of the club was in critical condition, because the left leading striker Acquafresca and were sold Davide Biondini, Federico Marchetti and Andrea Cossu. However, Massimiliano managed to build a clear strategic line to finish Dost Italian championship. April 13, 2010 "Cagliari" Allegri dismissed from the leadership of the club, despite the good twelfth place with 40 points in a season. In his place he was appointed coach of the youth team of Giorgio Melis.

Go to "Milan"

The contract with "Cagliari" was terminated on June 17, at the request of "Milan", who was interested in the appointment of Massimiliano their new head coach. June 25, 2010 Allegri was officially appointed as the new coach of the "Rossoneri". He worked in Milan until January 2014, after which the entire coaching staff Allegri left the team.

"Juventus"

July 16, 2014 was appointed as the new head coach of the Turin "Juventus", replacing this position Antonio Conte. In four seasons with the club won four Serie A, four Italian Cup and one Italian Super Cup.

Life

Massimiliano Allegri is known not only as a football coach at the Italian open spaces, but also as the most ardent admirer and lover of Playboy models. In the history of his romantic and intimate relationships were such beauties as Barbara D'Urso Gloria Patrizi and other Italian queen of hearts.