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Footballer and football manager (born )

Dario Gradi (born 8 July ) is an Italian-English former football player, coach and manager.

He was associated for more than 36 years with Crewe Alexandra, where he was variously manager, director of football and director of the Academy, until October

Gradi played as an amateur for clubs in the London area (and won an England amateur cap); he then took on various coaching roles in the region.

His first major managerial success was achieved with Wimbledon after which he briefly managed Crystal Palace in

Gradi had a year first spell as manager of Crewe between and He stepped down from his managerial role in , handing first-team responsibilities to Steve Holland, and became technical director.

At that time, Gradi was the longest-serving manager of an English football league club.^[1] After two further spells as Crewe manager, he finally stepped down in November to focus on the club's youth system,^[2] after