Guido Carboni

Playing career

Carboni played mostly with Tuscan Serie C1 and Serie C2 teams throughout his career in the role of striker, marking his professional footballing debut with hometown club Arezzo in 1980. He then played also for Montevarchi, Empoli and Siena, and retired in 1997 to pursue a coaching career.

Coaching career

Carboni started his coaching career in 1998 with Serie D club Aglianese, leading his side to seventh place in the final standings. In 1999, he left Tuscany to coach Sardinian Serie D side Olbia, ending the season in fourteenth place. In October 2000, he was surprisingly appointed by Genoa chairman Gianni Scerni to replace Bruno Bolchi at the helm of the rossoblu in the Serie B. 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 Serie C1 side Pisa, 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 Serie C2 table and escaped relegation only after the playoffs. In 2003, he moved back to 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 Bari in the Serie B, obtaining a twelfth and a thirteenth final place…