Triestina appoint Michele Santoni as first team manager

US Triestina Calcio 1918 are pleased to announce that Michele Santoni has been appointed as first team manager.

Santoni, 44, most recently managed Dordrecht in the Dutch second division. He will begin his tenure with Triestina from 1 July, having signed a two-year contract with the club, with an option for one additional year.

Santoni began his career in the Netherlands with Haarlem's Under 19 team, and, from the summer of 2009 to January 2014, he served as a video analyst at Ajax, contributing to four league titles under the management of Frank De Boer and Martin Jol.

After returning to Italy, Santoni spent three years as an assistant coach at Livorno, Cesena, and Inter Milan, working alongside Davide Nicola, Domenico Di Carlo, and once again Frank De Boer, respectively. He then joined Lazio, where he managed the Under 17 and Under 19 teams, before taking on a first-team role in Serie A as the assistant to Diego Lopez at Cagliari in the 2017/18 season.

Since the summer of 2018, Santoni has returned to the Netherlands, with coaching experiences at Almere City, at ADO Den Haag as assistant to Aleksandar Rankovic and, in the past three seasons, at Dordrecht in the second division, guiding them to a fourth-place finish and achieving promotion playoffs in the 2023/24 season.

Welcome, Michele.