Amedeo Carboni

Amedeo Carboni
Personal information
Full name	Amedeo Carboni
Date of birth	April 6, 1965 (1965-04-06) (age 44)
Place of birth	Arezzo, Italy
Height	180cm
Playing position	Left-back
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984-1985 1985-1986 1986-1987 1987-1988 1988-1990 1990-1997 1997-2006	Arezzo AS Bari Empoli Parma Sampdoria AS Roma Valencia	022 0(1) 010 0(0) 011 0(0) 028 0(1) 060 0(2) 186 0(3) 246 0(1)
National team
1992-97	Italy	018 0(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Amedeo Carboni (born 6 April 1965 in Arezzo) is a former Italian professional footballer. He was a former player and former sporting director of Spanish football club Valencia Club de Fútbol, where he played for nine years between 1997 and 2006. A left back, he has represented the Italian national football team eighteen times.

Career

Carboni has played for numerous Italian clubs before joining Valencia, including Arezzo, AS Bari, Parma, Sampdoria and AS Roma.

He helped Valencia to the 2001 UEFA Champions League Final but missed his penalty as they went down in a shootout to Bayern Munich. On 23 October 2005, he became the oldest player at the age of 40 years, six months and 17 days to play in the La Liga, a record previously held by Deportivo de La Coruña's Donato. He also achieved the feat of the oldest winner of any European club competition, when he won the UEFA Cup in 2004.

On May 19, 2006, Carboni became Valencia's sporting director (a role found in most Spanish clubs, involving the responsibility of signing new players).

On June 19, 2007, Carboni was sacked from Valencia. The working relationship between Carboni and the then Valencia-coach Quique Sánchez Flores was strained after many disputes, and left a situation in which one would stay, and the other would leave the club. The club announced on that day that it had chosen Sanchez Flores over Carboni.^[1] Not long after that, Quique Sanchez was sacked himself.

On June 10, 2009, Carboni became the new sporting director of football club Excelsior Mouscron from Belgium, teaming up with former Valencia team-mate Miroslav Djukic, who is the manager there.

Honours

Coppa Italia: 1989, 1991

UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 1990

Spanish La Liga: 2002, 2004

Copa del Rey: 1999

Spanish Supercup: 1999

UEFA Cup: 2004

UEFA Supercup: 2004

Career statistics

Year	Club	Games	Goals
1984-85	A.C. Arezzo	22	1
1985-86	AS Bari	10	0
1986-87	Empoli	11	0
1987-88	Parma	28	1
1988-89	Sampdoria	31	1
1989-90	Sampdoria	29	1
1990-91	AS Roma	30	1
1991-92	AS Roma	33	0
1992-93	AS Roma	9	0
1993-94	AS Roma	32	1
1994-95	AS Roma	30	0
1995-96	AS Roma	29	0
1996-97	AS Roma	23	1
1997-98	Valencia CF	29	0
1998-99	Valencia CF	36	0
1999-00	Valencia CF	28	1
2000-01	Valencia CF	24	0
2001-02	Valencia CF	33	0
2002-03	Valencia CF	29	0
2003-04	Valencia CF	33	0
2004-05	Valencia CF	28	0
2005-06	Valencia CF	5	0

References

External links

• Career stats at National-Football-Teams.com

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