Evans Soligo (born 14 January 1979) is a retired

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who played as a

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, currently working as

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's technical collaborator at club

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. He spent his entire career at clubs in Italy's

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and

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Playing career

Born in

Marghera Marghera is a ''municipalità'' (borough) of the ''comune'' of Venice, Italy, Venice, Italy. It includes the industrial area known as Porto Marghera (English: Marghera Port) or Venezia Porto Marghera. Etymology The name Marghera is said in popula ...

, the inland part of

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, Soligo started his career at hometown club

A.C. Venezia Venezia Football Club is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Venice, Veneto, that currently plays in . They were relegated to Serie B after a 2-3 loss to Juventus. Originally fo ...

. Since 1998–99 season he was loaned to

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and

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clubs Sandonà,

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and

Lumezzane Lumezzane (, locally ) is a town and (municipality) in the province of Brescia, in the Italian region of Lombardy. With a population of 22,255 (), it is one of the largest towns in its province. It is situated in the Gobbia Valley, which is a s ...

, which is also located in northern Italy. After Venezia owner

Maurizio Zamparini Maurizio Zamparini (9 June 1941 – 1 February 2022) was an Italian businessman. He was the owner and director of football club Palermo between July 2002 – February 2017 and from July 2017 – December 2018. Biography Zamparini had business ...

took over

from by–then

AS Roma Associazione Sportiva Roma (''Rome Sport Association''; Italian pronunciation: Help:IPA/Italian, ) is a professional Association football, football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier ...

President

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in July, Zamparini bought most of the player of Venezia to Palermo in August and planned to sell Venezia to uncredited person (AC Venezia then fold in 2005). Players namely

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, Daniel Andersson, Bilica,

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, Francesco Ciullo, Kewullay Conteh,

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, Mario Santana, Ighli Vannucchi and

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all left for the

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side. But at the start of the season, he was loaned back to Venezia from Palermo along with Budan and Andrea Guerra. Soligo made his Serie B debut with Venezia, on 19 October 2002 (round 8 but the 6th match as first two postponed) He was in the starting XI and replaced by Anderson in 77th minute, 1 minute after Daniele Amerini scored the equalizing goal. The match eventually ended in 1–1 with

Ternana Ternana Calcio, commonly referred to as Ternana, is an Italian football club based in Terni, Umbria and currently compete in the Serie C. The club was founded in 1925 and refounded in 1993. In its history, Ternana has twice played in Serie A ...

. Soligo then remained in starting XI until round 21 (31 January), which he appeared as sub. He played his next match in round 35 and featured in all the last four matches as a starting XI member (rounds 35 to 38). In the 2003–04 season, Soligo returned to Palermo but just made nine league appearances for the Serie B champion. Soligo was not in Palermo's Serie A plan, on 21 July 2004, he was loaned back to Serie B for

Triestina Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to US Triestina or just Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, in the northern Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Originally established in 1918, Triestina was one of the fo ...

, 3 days before the pre–season camp. On 31 January 2005 he was loaned to fellow Serie B team

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which aimed to promotion. But he just made 11 league appearances and the team missed the chance to enter the promotion playoffs by finished 1 point less than Ascoli, which Ascoli eventually promoted to Serie A due to

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and bankrupt of

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(and a new club

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re–admitted to Serie B). That season also saw the bankruptcy of

Salernitana Sport Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919 is an Italian professional football club based in Salerno, Campania. The original club was founded in 1919 and has been reconstituted three times in the course of its history, most recently in 2011. The current ...

and

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re-admitted to

, which Soligo left for the re–founded

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club. With the southern Italy side for 5 seasons, he won the Serie C1 Group B championship with the team in 2008 and spent the last 2 seasons in Serie B. The team avoided relegation in 2009 by finishing 1 point ahead of

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and

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, which was relegated after losing the playoffs. But after the team relegated again to

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(ex–Serie C1 and later expelled), he joined Serie B side

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on free transfer, returned to

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region after 5 years at

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. In summer 2012, he moved to Paganese; in November 2013, he joined Delta Rovigo. After the signing season for the

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, the summer of 2015 was spent playing in

Venezia Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

Coaching career

After retirement, Soligo stayed at Venezia, working with the club in the youth sector. In June 2025, Soligo joined the coaching staff of

as a technical collaborator.

Honours

Palermo *

: 2003–04 Salernitana *

: 2007–08 Venezia *

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

: 2015–16 *

Lega Pro The Lega Italiano Calcio Professionistico (Italian for Professional Football Italian League), commonly known as Lega Pro (Pro League), is the governing body that runs the third tier of professional football competitions in Italy, the Serie C. I ...

: 2016–17 *

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: 2016–17

References

External links

Profile at La Gazzetta dello Sport (2009–10)

Profile at Lega–Calcio.it

*
Profile at Palermo (2003–04)
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