Alessandro Dal Canto (born 10 March 1975) is an Italian

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manager and a former player who played as a defender. He is the head coach of club

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Playing career

Dal Canto started his professional career with

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, with whom he played three

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games. He successively joined

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; or , archaically ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione, River Bacchiglione. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and e ...

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, where he played a total of 35 matches. He then moved to

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for a short time, playing 16 games in the top flight before returning to Vicenza and then moving to

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, where he spent three impressive seasons. After a short period with Bologna, Dal Canto returned to Vicenza, where he also had the chance to establish himself at the European level. The defender was one of the first Italians to play in Eastern Europe, specifically in

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with Uralan Elista in 2003. This was followed by a fourth and final comeback at Vicenza, with 11 appearances. He then played at Serie B and Serie C1 level with Catanzaro, Perugia, AlbinoLeffe and Treviso. He was also part of the Padania football selection in the VIVA World Cup 2008.

Coaching career

After retiring as a footballer, Dal Canto took over at

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, becoming the club's new under-19 youth coach. On 15 March 2011 Dal Canto was appointed temporary head coach of Padova, following the dismissal of head coach

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. In his first game in charge of the first team, he guided Padova to its first away win of the season, defeating

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2–0. Club chairman

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successively confirmed him as Padova head coach until the end of next season 2011–12. He then served as head coach of

in the Italian third tier (

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, then unified to

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in 2014), from July 2013 to October 2014. On 13 June 2018, he was named new head coach of Serie C club

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. On 4 July 2019, Dal Canto signed to

Robur Siena Siena Football Club Società Sportiva Dilettantistica, commonly referred to as Siena, is an Italian football club based in Siena, Tuscany. The club was re-incorporated in 2020 after the bankruptcy of the previous legal entity Robur Siena, whic ...

. Following Siena's bankruptcy, on 16 September 2020, he was hired by newly relegated

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club

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. He was fired on 1 March 2021 following a string of negative results that left Livorno in last place in the league table, in a season that saw the club going through many serious financial issues that also led to a five-point deduction. Dal Canto started the

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season in charge of Viterbese, but was dismissed on 4 October 2021 after seven games in charge. He was rehired as Viterbese coach on 6 March 2022. On 11 July 2022 Dal Canto was unveiled as the new head coach of Serie C club

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. He was dismissed on 16 January 2024. On 14 October 2024, Dal Canto was hired as the new head coach of

club

References

External links

Gazzetta profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dal Canto, Alessandro 1975 births Living people Footballers from Castelfranco Veneto Men's association football defenders Italian men's footballers Italy men's youth international footballers Italian expatriate men's footballers Juventus FC players Torino FC players LR Vicenza players Venezia FC players Bologna FC 1909 players UC AlbinoLeffe players FC Elista players AC Perugia Calcio players US Catanzaro 1929 players Treviso FBC 1993 players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Russian Premier League players Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Italian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Italian football managers UEFA Europa League–winning players Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in football Calcio Padova managers Venezia FC managers LR Vicenza managers SS Arezzo managers Siena FC SSD managers US Livorno 1915 managers AS Cittadella managers Serie B managers Serie C managers 20th-century Italian sportsmen