Sandro Salvioni is an Italian

Italy

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 football manager, and a former player.

Playing career

Salvioni mostly played into lower ranks of Italian football, excluding a two-year stint with then-Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

 club Foggia

U.S. Foggia

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 and a lone season with Brescia

Brescia Calcio

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.

Coaching career

Salvioni started his coaching career in 1989 with Serie D

Serie D

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 club Seregno which he later to join Crema

U.S. Pergocrema 1932

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 in 1991. In 1993 he made his debut as professional coach with Vastese

F.C. Pro Vasto

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 in the Serie C2

Serie C2

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 league. From 1994 to 2000 he then served as youth coach of Parma

Parma F.C.

Parma Football Club , commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia–Romagna that will compete in Serie A for the 2011–12 season, having finished in twelfth position last season. Founded as Verdi Foot Ball Club in July 1913, the club changed its...

; in June 2000 he was then appointed by Franco Sensi

Franco Sensi

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 to take over as head coach of French

France

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 Ligue 2

Ligue 2

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 club OGC Nice

OGC Nice

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, who was acquired by the Roma

A.S. Roma

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 chairman as a satellite club for the giallorossi. In his second and final season in charge, he guided the French outfit to promotion into the top flight. In 2002 he agreed a return to Italy in order to become new head coach of Serie B

Serie B

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 club Cosenza, with little success; this was followed by another unsuccessful Serie B period with Verona

Hellas Verona F.C.

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. After two short spells with minor league teams Lumezzane and Calcio Caravaggese, he took over from Francesco Monaco

Francesco Monaco

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 as head coach of Ancona

A.C. Ancona

Associazione Calcio Ancona was a professional Italian football club, based in Ancona, Marche. It was founded in 1905 as Unione Sportiva Anconitana, changing its name to Ancona Calcio 1905 in 1981 and being refounded in 2004 with its last denomination....

 on May 2009, guiding the small club to escape relegation in the 2008–09 season and a mid-table placement in the following 2009–10 season. However, Salvioni found himself again without a job on July 2010 due to Ancona's exclusion from professional football.

In December 2010 he became the new head coach of Triestina

U.S. Triestina Calcio

Unione Sportiva Triestina is an Italian football club based in Trieste, in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.It is in the season 2010-11 from Serie B, having returned there in 2002 after 11 seasons in Serie C and Serie D, the club was relegated to Lega Pro Prima Divisione.-History:The club was...

, as of the start of winter break, the team finished as the bottom with 17 points.