| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Francesco Magnanelli[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1984-11-12)12 November 1984 (age 41) | ||
| Place of birth | Umbertide, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Juventus U20 (head coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2002 | Gubbio | 15 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | Chievo | 0 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Fiorentina | 0 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Sangiovannese | 7 | (0) |
| 2005–2022 | Sassuolo | 448 | (8) |
| Total | 470 | (8) | |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Francesco Magnanelli (born 12 November 1984) is an Italianfootball coach and former player. Since August 2024, he has been the head coach ofJuventus'sunder-20 side.
Amidfielder in his playing days, he is the all-time record appearance holder forSassuolo.[2]
Throughout his club career, Magnanelli has played for several Italian sides: he began his career withGubbio in 2000, and later played forChievo,Fiorentina, andSangiovannese, before joiningSassuolo in 2005, where he helped the team fromSerie C2 toSerie A promotion; he won theSerie C1 andSerie B titles with the club in2008 and2013 respectively, and was later named the team'scaptain.[3][4] In June 2015 he signed a new two-year contract with Sassuolo.[5]
On 29 October 2019, Magnanelli was given a one-match ban for blasphemy during Serie A matches. Italy has a strict ban on taking God's name in vain.[6]
On 19 May 2022, Magnanelli announced his retirement from playing at the end of the season.[7]
Magnanelli has been described as a talented, purposeful, humble and hard-workingmidfielder. He is usually deployed in thecentre and is known in particular for his leadership and passing range, as well as his tactical awareness and reading of the game, in addition to his tenacity and ability to win back possession or intercept passes as adefensive midfielder.[4][8]
After retirement, Magnanelli stayed at Sassuolo as part ofAlessio Dionisi's first team coaching staff.
He left Sassuolo in the summer of 2023 to rejoinMassimiliano Allegri, a former manager of his, as his technical collaborator atJuventus. Since then, he has been hailed as a key appointment for theBianconeri due to his fresh tactical ideas that were deemed as reminiscent of the playing style ofRoberto De Zerbi, another former coach of his at Sassuolo,[9] and for having pushed towards different and more modern playing strategies involving key players such asFederico Chiesa andDušan Vlahović.[10]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Sangiovannese | 2004–05 | Serie C | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||
| Sassuolo | 2006–07 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 24 | 1 | ||
| 2007–08 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 31 | 1 | |||
| 2008–09 | Serie B | 37 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 0 | |||
| 2009–10 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 42 | 0 | |||
| 2010–11 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 40 | 2 | ||||
| 2011–12 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | 39 | 0 | |||
| 2012–13 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 42 | 1 | ||||
| 2013–14 | Serie A | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 | |||
| 2014–15 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 31 | 1 | ||||
| 2015–16 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 35 | 1 | ||||
| 2016–17 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | — | 24 | 1 | |||
| 2017–18 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 0 | ||||
| 2018–19 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 28 | 1 | ||||
| 2019–20 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 22 | 0 | ||||
| 2020–21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 0 | ||||
| 2021–22 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 13 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 448 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 481 | 9 | ||
| Career total | 455 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 488 | 9 | ||
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