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My Take
Marco Donadel earns my admiration for refusing to let his story end at retirement. A midfielder born in 1983 in Conegliano, deep in Italy's prosecco country, he later crossed the Atlantic to coach in Montréal, trading his boots for a clipboard and a far harder kind of pressure. That transition takes humility and a real footballing brain, and I love seeing players reinvent themselves as thinkers of the game. The 2004 knighthood in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, awarded young, hints at character beyond the pitch. He strikes me as a steady, intelligent professional worth following.
Overview
Marco Donadel (born 21 April 1983) is an Italian football coach and a former midfielder who was most recently the head coach of Major League Soccer club CF Montréal.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Marco Donadel
- Name (Japanese)
- マルコ・ドナデル
- Reading
- まるこ・どなでる
- Born
- April 21, 1983 (age 43)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Boar
- Origin
- Conegliano, Province of Treviso, Italy
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 179 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2004 Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Association football player — see all → · Association football coach — see all → · More people from Italy →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.