Massimo Silva (born 24 August 1951) is an Italian professional

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coach and a former player.

Career

Player

He has played four seasons (90 games, 16 goals) in the

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for

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and

Delfino Pescara 1936 Delfino Pescara 1936, commonly referred to as Pescara, is a professional football in Italy, Italian football club based in Pescara, Abruzzo. The club was formed in 1936 and currently plays in Serie C, but will play in Serie B in the 2025–26 s ...

. He scored the goal in the first round of the

1976–77 UEFA Cup The 1976–77 UEFA Cup was the sixth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Stadio Comunale, Turin, Italy, and at San Mamés, Bilbao, Spain. It was won by Juvent ...

that put

past

FC Dinamo București FC Dinamo București, commonly known as Dinamo București () or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest that competes in the Liga I. Founded in 1948 as the team of the Ministry of Inter ...

Coach

As a coach, he mostly managed lower-level teams, except for two seasons with

, including one in the

as the formal head coach tutoring for actual manager

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, who did not possess the UEFA Pro coaching licence at the time. On November 2, 2011 he was appointed head coach of

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club

. He was sacked on 20 March 2013 and replaced by Rosario Pergolizzi, but on 13 April 2013 he was reinstated as manager. In 2014, he took over at

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club

Grosseto Grosseto () is a city and a ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the province of Grosseto and the main city of the Maremma region. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the ...

, serving on two stints during the 2014–15 season (August to November 2014, then March to June 2015). He then served at

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 ...

level for

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(from February to June 2017) and

Isernia Isernia () is a town and ''comune'' in the southern Italian region of Molise, and the capital of the province of Isernia. Geography Situated on a rocky crest rising from between the Carpino and the Sordo rivers, the plan of Isernia still refl ...

(2018–19 season). On 28 January 2020 he was named new head coach of Serie D club Vastese, replacing

Marco Amelia Marco Amelia (; born 2 April 1982) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and current coach in charge of Serie D amateurs Nuova Sondrio. A Roma youth product, Amelia spent most of his professional club career ...

. He left the club at the end of the 2019–20 season and then was hired again on 5 September 2020. He was fired by Vastese on 26 December 2020. He successively worked as the head coach of

club

from July to September 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Silva, Massimo 1951 births Living people Italian men's footballers Serie A players US Cremonese players Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players Inter Milan players AC Milan players AC Monza players Delfino Pescara 1936 players US Sambenedettese players ACR Messina players Italian football managers Serie A managers Ternana Calcio managers US Sambenedettese managers Frosinone Calcio managers Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC managers Benevento Calcio managers Men's association football forwards Footballers from the Province of Pavia 20th-century Italian sportsmen