Personal information | |||
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Full name | François Ciccolini | ||
Date of birth | 3 June 1962 | ||
Place of birth | Cozzano, France | ||
Position(s) | Forward [1] | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1982–1984 | Olympique Ajaccio | ||
1984–1985 | Saint-Dizier | ||
1985–1986 | Olympique Ajaccio | ||
1986–1988 | Bastia | 18 | (0) |
1988–1990 | Gazélec Ajaccio | ||
Managerial career | |||
1997–2000 | Porto Vecchio | ||
2000–2004 | Bastia (youth teams) | ||
2004–2005 | Bastia | ||
2008–2009 | Red Star | ||
2009–2011 | Monaco (youth teams) | ||
2011 | Neuchâtel Xamax | ||
2014 | JS Kabylie | ||
2016–2017 | Bastia | ||
2018–2019 | Laval | ||
2019–2020 | Gazélec Ajaccio | ||
2020 | USM Alger | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
François Ciccolini (born 3 June 1962) [1] is a French football manager and former player.
Born in Cozzano, Corsica, Ciccolini spent most of his playing career as a forward on the island, with SC Bastia and Gazélec Ajaccio. In his first managerial job with AS Porto-Vecchio, he took them to the last 32 of the 1999–2000 Coupe de France before losing to Bordeaux. [2] He then moved into the ranks of Bastia, becoming manager in 2004 and being sacked in April 2005 when the team was 19th in Ligue 1. [3]
Ciccolini returned to management in 2008 at Red Star F.C., and was dismissed the following March with the team in danger of relegation. [4] After working in the youth teams of AS Monaco FC, he took the job at Neuchâtel Xamax FCS in June 2011. [5] Following defeat in the first two games of the Swiss Super League season, he was dismissed in July and replaced by Joaquín Caparrós. [6]
In October 2014, Ciccolini was hired at JS Kabylie in Algeria but left two months later to rejoin Bastia. [7] He served as assistant to Ghislain Printant before taking the job outright in January 2016, with the team three points outside the relegation zone. [8] They finished the season in 10th, but by the end of February 2017 they were 19th and he was dismissed and replaced by Rui Almeida. [9]
Ciccolini's next job was at Stade Lavallois in the third-tier Championnat National. Early on in his tenure in August 2018, he made a threat of physical violence towards a Radio France journalist, and earned a five-month ban with the last two suspended. [10] The following February, he made an obscene gesture towards fans at JA Drancy, [11] and left his job by mutual consent days later. [12]
In June 2019, Ciccolini returned to Gazélec on a two-year deal as manager, after the team's play-off relegation from Ligue 2. [13] In May 2020 he was sacked, following the team's relegation to Championnat National 2. [14]
In November 2020, Ciccolini was appointed at USM Alger back in Algeria. He was dismissed after his debut, a 2–1 loss to CR Belouizdad in the Super Cup, for "disrespecting government officials" by refusing to take a runners-up medal from prime minister Abdelaziz Djerad. [15]