Carbone may refer to:

• Carbone, Basilicata - commune in Italy
• Alejandra Carbone - Argentinian foil fencer
• Angelo Carbone - Italian soccer player
• Benito Carbone - Italian soccer player
• Francesco Carbone - Italian soccer player
• Rodolfo Carbone - Brazilian soccer player

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Benito known as Benny Carbone (born 14 August 1971 in Bagnara) is a retired Italian professional footballer and former manager of Serie B club Varese.^[1] He played as a forward, winger or midfielder. He has played professional football for seventeen different clubs.

Career[link]

Carbone began his career in 1989 with Torino in his native Italy, and became a journeyman for the next few years before being signed by Sheffield Wednesday in 1996 for £3 million from Internazionale. Carbone became the club's highest goal scorer for the 1998–99 season scoring nine goals and was voted the fans` favourite player.^[2]

After a contract dispute with Wednesday at the start of the 1999–2000 season, he joined Aston Villa for an undisclosed fee and played for a season at Villa Park, earning an FA Cup runners up medal after Villa lost 1–0 in the final to Chelsea. He had previously scored a hat-trick against Leeds United in an earlier round, including a spectacular long range strike from 35 yards.^{[3][citation needed]} At the start of the 2000–01 season, he joined Bradford City on a free transfer. Despite some disillusionment over his wages, he scored some memorable goals and endeared himself to the Valley Parade faithful.^{[citation needed]} Bradford City were relegated and although he played the start of the following season with them as well as pledging his future to them,^[4] he later moved on loan to first Derby County, where he scored once against former club Aston Villa,^[5] and then Middlesbrough, where he again scored once in the league against Aston Villa.^[6] In 2002, he left Bradford, after they went into administration, and returned to Italy with Como and played for Parma from 2003 to 2005. \ accused him of being a mercenary due to Carbone moving clubs on a regular occurrence. He was, however, very popular with the fans of his clubs, particularly at Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford City. He also waived much of the money owed to him after he had moved to Como which helped City survive in the administration of 2002.

After a one-year stint with Vicenza, Carbone signed for a four-game guest contract with the Australian team Sydney FC. He capped his first game against Adelaide United off with two assists and a goal. He was a potential replacement for Dwight Yorke, who was the previous marquee player at the club and after his debut many believed would be better than Yorke.^[7]

During Carbone's third guest game, he pulled a hamstring muscle that ruled him out of football for at least seven weeks, ending his short lived career with Sydney. Carbone failed to reach an agreement with Sydney for a long term contract.^[8]

Upon returning to Italy, Carbone joined northern side Pavia in August 2007. In his first season back in the lower leagues, Carbone scored just 5 goals in 29 appearances as Pavia finished fourth from bottom.^[9]

Coaching career[link]

After his retirement, Carbone accepted to stay at Pavia as youth coach, guiding the Berretti under-19 team.^[10] On March 2011 he was then promoted as head coach to replace Gianluca Andrissi.^[11] He guided Pavia to a safe place in the 2010–11 Lega Pro Prima Divisione standings, leading the club out of the relegation zone in his two months in charge of the first team.^[12]

On 16 June 2011 he was surprisingly announced as new head coach of Serie B club Varese, replacing local hero Giuseppe Sannino who left to become new boss of Serie A club Siena after guiding the club from Lega Pro Seconda Divisione to a spot in the promotion playoffs during his last season in charge.^[1][12] On October 1, 2011 he was sacked^[13] and replaced by Rolando Maran.^[14]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Player Profile at sydneyfc.com