Adolfo Sormani (born 11 August 1965) is an

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retired footballer and current head coach. He is the son of former footballer and coach

Angelo Sormani Angelo Benedicto Miguel Sormani (; ; born 3 July 1939) is a Brazilian-born Italian former football manager and player, who played as a forward; he was capable of playing anywhere along the front-line, as a centre-forward, as well as in an att ...

Playing career

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youth product, he has mostly played in the minor divisions of Italy, except for a short stint at

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Coaching career

Following his retirement as a player, Sormani became a coach and served in the youth teams of

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and

as well. He was an assistant coach at

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and the Chinese club Zall. He briefly served in 2016 as head coach of Albanian team

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. Successively he was appointed in charge of Danish second division club

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, guiding them to promotion before leaving in 2019. After a short return at Partizani Tirana in 2020, he was named new head coach of

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club

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before being fired in November 2021. He is currently - 2024 -head coach at Havnar Bóltfelag, Faroe Islands. 4th May 2025 he left HB by mutual consent.

References

1965 births Living people Footballers from Naples Italian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Serie A players Serie B players SSC Napoli players US Avellino 1912 players Italian football managers FC Südtirol managers FK Partizani Tirana managers Vejle Boldklub managers Kategoria Superiore managers Italian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Albania Italian expatriate sportspeople in Albania Expatriate football managers in Denmark Italian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1960s-stub