Playing career Carboni played mostly with
Tuscan Serie C1 and
Serie C2 teams throughout his career in the role of
striker, marking his professional footballing debut with hometown club
Arezzo in 1980. He then played also for
Montevarchi,
Empoli and
Siena, and retired in 1997 to pursue a coaching career.
Coaching career Carboni started his coaching career in 1998 with
Serie D club
Aglianese, leading his side to seventh place in the final standings. In 1999, he left Tuscany to coach
Sardinian Serie D side
Olbia, ending the season in fourteenth place. In October 2000, he was surprisingly appointed by
Genoa chairman
Gianni Scerni to replace
Bruno Bolchi at the helm of the
rossoblu in the
Serie B. Carboni, lacking a valid coaching license for heading a Serie B club, guided the club jointly with veteran manager
Alfredo Magni, but was sacked in January 2001 following a poor 17 points in 15 matches. In 2001-2002, Carboni was appointed at the helm of ambitious
Serie C1 side
Pisa, but failed to lead the club to a promotion spot, ending the season in a poor tenth place. He returned to Olbia the next season, but obtained an unimpressive fifteenth place in the
Serie C2 table and escaped relegation only after the playoffs. In 2003, he moved back to Serie C1, at
Viterbese, obtaining a third place and allowing the
gialloblu to gain a spot in the promotion playoff. From 2004 to 2006, Carboni coached
Bari in the Serie B, obtaining a twelfth and a thirteenth final place respectively. After Bari replaced him with
Rolando Maran during the summer, he started the 2006-07 season without a job, being appointed in February 2007 as the new
Crotone boss following the dismissal of
Elio Gustinetti in an attempt to avoid relegation, which later proved to be unsuccessful. Following Crotone's relegation to Serie C1, Carboni left the Calabrian side, being later appointed at the helm of newly promoted Serie B side
Avellino on August 23, 2007, being the third head coach signed by the
biancoverdi in the 2007-08 season following resignations by
Giovanni Vavassori and successively
Maurizio Sarri, all apparingly caused by disputes with the club management. He was sacked in March 2008 due to poor results. In April 2009 he was appointed to replace
Elvio Selighini at the helm of relegation-battling Serie B side
Rimini, however failing to save his team from falling down to the lower tier after being defeated to
Ancona in the relegation playoffs. On 25 April 2010,
Frosinone announced that Carboni would be the new manager after a poor string of results led to the sacking of
Francesco Moriero, leading the club to safety. A poor start in the 2010–11 campaign however led to Carboni's own dismissal later in January 2011. On 20 November 2011 Carboni becomes the new coach of
Empoli in place of the sacked
Giuseppe Pillon, until 12 February 2012 when he was sacked. On 18 January 2013, he was named new coach of
Benevento. In December 2015, he replaced
Gianluca Atzori as manager of
Siena. On 13 November 2018 he was appointed head coach of
Serie C club
Olbia. He was fired on 7 January 2019 and replaced by Michele Filippi. ==References==