Francesco Parravicini


Francesco Parravicini is an Italian football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder. He is the head coach of Serie D club Pro Sesto.

Playing career

Pro Sesto

Parravicini started his career at Pro Sesto. During 2000–01 season Parravicini was signed by Treviso in co-ownership deal. The deal was renewed in June 2001. Parravicini became a member of Treviso first team in 2001.

Treviso

Parravicini formally joined Treviso on 1 July 2001.
He made his Serie A debut against A.S. Livorno Calcio on 11 September 2005. Treviso was promoted due to Caso Genoa, the bankruptcy of Torino Calcio and AC Perugia.
In January 2006 Parravicini was sold to Fiorentina for €2.7 million, but loaned back to Treviso for the rest of the season. Treviso also signed William Viali outright, Gianni Guigou and Christian Maggio in temporary deals.

Palermo

In May 2006, Parravicini was sold to Palermo from Fiorentina for €1.5 million as part of the deal of Mario Santana. Fiorentina also retained half of the player's registration rights. He played 5 games in UEFA Cup, 1 in Coppa Italia and 8 in the Serie A, before move on loan to Parma.

Parma

On 31 January 2007, he was loaned to Parma, with Maurizio Ciaramitaro returned to Palermo. On 11 February 2007 he played his first Serie A match for Parma against A.S. Roma.
In June 2007, Parma bought Parravicini outright from Palermo and Fiorentina for €1.9 million. Palermo and Fiorentina share the revenue equally. The deal also made Palermo only paid Parma €4 million cash for the signing of Mark Bresciano and Fábio Simplício in 2006, as Parma acquired 50% rights of Parravicini, Igor Budan and Davide Matteini from Palermo in 2007. Parma also signed Reginaldo from Fiorentina in 2007 for €4.5 million, thus along with Parravicini, counter-weight the signing of Sébastien Frey from Parma in 2006 for €5.6 million.
On 2 February 2009, the Parma F.C. player will play on loan for Atalanta until the end of the season; at the same time Parma have obtained from the Lombard club the loan of Antonino D'Agostino and Alessio Manzoni.

Siena

In June 2009 he was sold to Siena for €2.5 million along with Reginaldo, which Manuel Coppola and Daniele Galloppa joined Parma in exchange. Parravicini signed a four-year contract. On 15 July 2010, he was signed by Livorno.

Novara

On 31 August 2012, Parravicini joined Novara. Laurent Lanteri also moved to Siena as part of the deal, thus no cash was involved. Both players were "valued" €1 million.

Coaching career

In the summer 2017, he was hired as head coach of Serie D club Pro Sesto. His contract was extended on 14 June 2019.

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