title: Christian Damiano
text: Christian Damiano (born 9 March 1950) is a French former professional football player and manager.
  
  Playing career 
  As a player, Damiano was a defender. Early in his youth career, he played for , but he would then join the youth academy of Nice. He played for the B team of the club in the early 1970s.
  
  Managerial career 
  Damiano stopped playing football in 1974, at the age of 24. From 1974 to 1983, he was simultaneously head of the youth academy and assistant manager of the first team of Nice. From 1983 to 1986, he would then coach Stade Raphaëlois. He would also have various roles at the French Football Federation in this time period.
  
  In 1986, Damiano became a coach at INF Vichy, a football academy. However, after it closed in 1990, he went to work as a coach for its counterpart INF Clairefontaine for two years. From 1992 to 1999, Damiano was a coach at several youth teams of France. In 1999, he was the first-team manager of Nice, and also the assistant manager until 2000.
  
  Damiano first moved to England in 2000 when he was appointed assistant to Jean Tigana at Fulham, and remained at the club until Tigana's departure in 2003. He then returned to work alongside Gérard Houllier again (as they had crossed paths as coaches in France youth teams), this time as an assistant coach at Liverpool, although he departed along with the manager in 2004. He was soon appointed to assist Steve Wigley at Southampton. He was briefly linked with the manager's job of the Australian national team, although he ultimately lost out to Guus Hiddink. Damiano would then go on to work as assistant manager under Claudio Ranieri from 2007 to 2012: he followed him at Parma, Juventus, Roma, and Inter Milan.
  
  References
  
  External links
   Profile at Liverpool FC website
   Profile at Southampton FC website
  
  1950 births
  Living people
  People from Antibes
  French men's footballers
  Men's association football defenders
  OGC Nice players
  French football managers
  OGC Nice non-playing staff
  INF Vichy managers
  INF Clairefontaine managers
  OGC Nice managers
  Fulham F.C. non-playing staff
  Liverpool F.C. non-playing staff
  Southampton F.C. non-playing staff
  Juventus FC non-playing staff
  AS Roma non-playing staff
  Inter Milan non-playing staff
  French expatriate football managers
  Expatriate football managers in England
  Expatriate football managers in Italy
  French expatriate sportspeople in England
  French expatriate sportspeople in Italy
  Footballers from Alpes-Maritimes