Giacomo Modica
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Giacomo Modica is an Italian
Italy
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 football manager
Coach (sport)
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 and former midfielder
Midfielder
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. Currently without a club, he last served as head coach of Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Celano
Celano F.C. Olimpia
Celano F.C. Marsica is an Italian association football from Celano, Abruzzo.The club was founded in 1978, and has played Serie D/F in 2005/2006, ending it in second place, and successively reaching the Serie D playoff finals; therefore, Celano has played Serie C2 in 2006/2007 and currently plays...

.

Career

After a playing career spent with several Serie B
Serie B
Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

 and Serie C1
Serie C1
Lega Pro Prima Divisione is the name of the third highest football league in Italy. It consists of 36 teams, divided geographically into two divisions of 18 teams each. Until 2008 it was known as Serie C1....

 teams, most notably Palermo
U.S. Città di Palermo
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 and Padova
Calcio Padova
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, he moved into coaching, working as Zdenek Zeman
Zdenek Zeman
Zdeněk Zeman is a Czech-Italian football coach. He has managed numerous different teams, mostly in Italian football, over the years, and is currently in charge of Serie B club Pescara.-Biography:...

's assistant for six years (even following him at Fenerbahçe) before becoming a head coach himself. In 2004 he worked for Serie D
Serie D
Serie D is the top level of the Italian non-professional football association called Lega Nazionale Dilettanti. The association represents over a million football players and thousands of football teams across Italy. Serie D ranks just below Lega Pro Seconda Divisione , and is thus considered the...

 team Cosenza
A.S. Cosenza Calcio
Nuova Cosenza Calcio is an Italian football club, based in Cosenza, Calabria. The team's official colours are red and blue.-Early times and Serie B:...

 with little fortune; he then worked for Serie C2
Serie C2
Lega Pro Seconda Divisione is the name of the fourth highest football league in Italy, the lowest with a professional status. Usually it consists of 54 teams, but in the season 2010–11 the teams are only 49 divided geographically into three divisions of 17, 16 and 16 teams each...

 teams Melfi
A.S. Melfi
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 in 2006 and Celano
Celano F.C. Olimpia
Celano F.C. Marsica is an Italian association football from Celano, Abruzzo.The club was founded in 1978, and has played Serie D/F in 2005/2006, ending it in second place, and successively reaching the Serie D playoff finals; therefore, Celano has played Serie C2 in 2006/2007 and currently plays...

 the following year, leading the latter to an impressive season and a spot in the promotion playoffs.

He agreed a one-year extension to his contract with Celano on July 2010. He left the club at the end of the 2010–11 season, the club citing excessive wage demands as the main reason behind the decision.

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