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Three years ago, Danny Maciocia spurned an offer to become the Alouettes’ president of football operations.

Instead, his desire was to become the team’s general manager — a position that went to Kavis Reed. Now, Maciocia’s dream is about to be fulfilled.

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The Als on Monday morning will announce the hirings of Maciocia as GM and Montreal businessman Mario Cecchini as president. The two appointments were hinted at almost immediately after the sale of the team was announced last Monday to Ontario-based steel magnates Sid Spiegel and Gary Stern.

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If the arrival of the unilingual Stern — only he and CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie attended last Monday’s hastily called news conference — wasn’t embraced, the hirings of Maciocia and Cecchini, both of whom are bilingual and popular, should be well received.

Maciocia, 52, lives in St-Léonard and has been the head coach at Université de Montréal since 2011. He guided the Carabins to the Vanier Cup in 2014 along with two other appearances in the national championship game, including last November, when they lost to Calgary.