Guido Carboni (born 27 January 1963) is an Italian

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most recently in charge of

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and a former

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, who played as a

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. He is the brother of former

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Amedeo Carboni Amedeo Carboni (; born 6 April 1965) is an Italian former footballer who played as a left-back. In a professional career which spanned 22 years and saw him appear in nearly 700 official games, he played mainly for Roma (seven seasons) and Valen ...

, who also played for

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, and

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at club level as a defender.

Career

Playing career

Carboni played mostly with Tuscan

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and

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teams throughout his career in the role of striker, marking his professional footballing debut with hometown club

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in 1980. He then played also for

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and

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, and retired in 1997 to pursue a coaching career.

Coaching career

Carboni started his coaching career in 1998 with

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club Aglianese, leading his side to seventh place in the final standings. In 1999, he left Tuscany to coach

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n Serie D side

, ending the season in fourteenth place. In October 2000 he was surprisingly appointed by

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chairman Gianni Scerni to replace

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at the helm of the ''rossoblu'' in the

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. Carboni, lacking a valid coaching license for heading a Serie B club, guided the club jointly with veteran manager Alfredo Magni, but was sacked in January 2001 following a poor 17 points in 15 matches. In 2001-2002, Carboni was appointed at the helm of ambitious

side

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, but failed to lead the club to a promotion spot, ending the season in a poor tenth place. He returned to Olbia the next season, but obtained an unimpressive fifteenth place in the

table and escaped relegation only after playoffs. In 2003, he moved back in Serie C1, at Viterbese, obtaining a third place and allowing the ''gialloblu'' to gain a spot in the promotion playoff. From 2004 to 2006, Carboni coached

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in the Serie B obtaining a twelfth and a thirteenth final place respectively. After Bari replaced him with

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during the summer, he started the 2006-07 season without a job, being appointed in February 2007 as new

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boss following the dismissal of

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in an attempt to avoid relegation which later proved to be unsuccessful. Following Crotone's relegation to Serie C1, Carboni left the Calabrian side, being later appointed at the helm of newly promoted Serie B side

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on August 23, 2007, being the third head coach signed by the ''biancoverdi'' in the 2007-08 season following resignations by Giovanni Vavassori and successively

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, all apparingly caused by disputes with the club management. He was sacked in March 2008 due to poor results. In April 2009 he was appointed to replace Elvio Selighini at the helm of relegation-battling Serie B side

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, however failing to save his team from falling down to the lower tier after being defeated to

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in the relegation playoffs. On 25 April 2010,

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announced that Carboni would be the new manager after a poor string of results led to the sacking of

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, leading the club to safety. A poor start in the 2010–11 campaign however led to Carboni's own dismissal later in January 2011. On 20 November 2011 Carboni becomes the new coach of

in place of the sacked Giuseppe Pillon, until 12 February 2012 when he was sacked. On 18 January 2013 he was named new coach of

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. In December 2015 he replaced

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as manager of

. On 13 November 2018 he was appointed head coach of

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club

. He was fired on 7 January 2019 and replaced by Michele Filippi.Olbia, ribaltone al contrario in panchina: via Guido Carboni e torna Michele Filippi
sardegna.diariosportivo.it, 7 January 2019

References

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