Fidelis Andria is preparing for next season and the club’s management has made official two important new faces, namely that of the new coach: Ciro Danucci and the new DS: Gianni Caliphant, both ready to build a solid and ambitious Fidelis Andria. The two will have to be good at dragging the square, which is now dreaming big.
The official press release
Below is the press release from the Apulian company: “Fidelis Andria 2018 announces that it has reached an agreement with Gianni Califano to entrust him with the role of Sports Director. The official presentation will take place after July 1st with subsequent communications.
Originally from Pagani, born in 1971, the new one DS He began his adventure in the world of football as a player with 460 appearances and 164 goals, all as professionals, before embarking on a career as a manager.
Since 2012, behind a desk, he has held the role of Sports Director in numerous clubs, including Bellaria, Prato, Varese, Monza, Fano, Livorno and Pro Sesto between Serie D and Serie C“.
Califano, from the field to management
For Gianni Caliphant a CHis career as a footballer was entirely professional, embellished by the gold medal won at the 1997 Universiade in Palermo, where he played as captain of the Italian national team (Massimo Oddo, World Champion in 2006, was also part of that team).
He made his debut with Prato in September 1992, then went on loan to Casale where he scored 10 goals in 25 games. He returned to Prato in the summer of 1993 for another three seasons in Serie C1. Two years in Alessandria in C1 and then he landed at Savoia where in the 1998/99 season, also thanks to his 11 goals, the first historic promotion of the Torre Annunziata club to Serie B arrived.
Viterbese, Catania and Modena are the clubs he met between October 1999 and June 2001 before arriving at Giulianova where in 5 seasons he scored 51 goals. In between, 2003/04, a season at Chieti closed with 12 goals. In 2006/07 he joined Gallipoli, again in Serie C1, where he scored 18 goals in 33 matches. He finishes with the football played with the Serie C goals record: 163. Record of goals held until March 2019 when Felice Evacuo surpassed it.
His career as a sports director is linked to two big clubs, Monza and Prato. With the Brianza club in 2014/15 he achieved salvation in Lega Pro in the playout with Pordenone despite the fact that the red and white club was experiencing a dramatic season with unpaid salaries, changes of ownership and a heavy penalty in the standings. In 2015/16 he joined Prato, the club with which he made his debut as a player: four intense years between Serie C and Serie D. From now on, the future is called Città di Varese.
Mercato Monza, the updated point on the Brianza negotiations
The purchasing campaign of Monza it began with the purchase of the young Forson in 2004, released from Manchester United. The certainty is that one of the goalkeepers will be the young Andrea Mazza, also born in 2004, last year in the Brianza Primavera. And then?
Everything will depend on the transfers. Michele Di Gregorio has left, important offers are being evaluated for Andrea Colpani, wanted by Lazio, Fiorentina and Marseille. The winger Alessandro Birindelli is very popular and could be sacrificed like Dany Mota. But not only that”. HERE to read the in-depth information on calciomercato.com.
Monza returns to Serie A on Monday
“Monza una città da serie A”, the program produced by Monza-News and hosted by our director Stefano Peduzzi, will also be broadcast in June and will return next Monday from 9 pm. The program will be broadcast live from 9 pm on channel 110 in Lombardy on digital terrestrial, throughout Italy and throughout Europe on Sky on channel 890 and streaming everywhere on the Facebook channels of Monza-News, on our Youtube channel. The list of guests in the studio will be announced shortly.
How to comment on the themes of Monza a city from Serie A
But how to comment on the topics covered during the broadcast of “Monza una città da serie A”? It’s very simple: just connect to the Facebook page of Monza-News or on the Youtube channel of our newspaper and write your opinion during the broadcast produced by our site and conducted by our director Stefano Peduzzi. To host the broadcast in your venue or company you need to send an email to:
