Serie A Coaching Carousel

Here are the clubs who have made coaching moves so far ...

Ancona - OUT: Gigi Simoni. IN: Leonardo Menichini

Bologna - OUT: Francesco Guidolin. IN: ?? Mazzone? De Canio?

Brescia - OUT: Carlo Mazzone IN: Gianni de Biasi (from Modena)

Empoli - OUT: Silvio Baldini (to Palermo) IN: Daniele Baldini

Modena - OUT: Gianni De Biasi (to Brescia), IN: Alberto Malesani (from Verona)

Reggina - OUT: Luigi De Canio IN: Franco Colomba (from Napoli)

 

Huh, wonder what made Donadoni decide to leave? He must have something else lined up. Wonder if Milan has a role for him ...

 

The new coach at Atalanta is Andrea Mandorlini, who is moving over from Vicenza. The announcement will be made official on Saturday.

 

Franco Colomba has parted ways with Napoli and could be headed back to Reggina. He was their coach the last time they were in Serie A.

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jun13g.html

 

Napoli has way more problems than their coach. In fact, he was fired early in the season, then they rehired him when it looked like they were going to go down. He ended up "saving" Napoli from C1. Colomba did very well at Reggina. The other current choice, Cammolese, was also fired - from Torino. There simply aren't any great coaches available, who want to coach at a team like Reggina. They either go with somebody inexperienced - or they go with somebody who has SOME experience (both good and bad).

 

Reggina has confirmed they are re-hiring Colomba.

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jun14f.html

Other tidbits in the article:

Napoli is replacing Colomba with Andrea Agostinelli - moving from Ternana and formerly Piacenza's coach. Poor guy.

And ex-Roma, Lazio, Napoli and Salernitana coach Zdenek Zeman has resurfaced yet again, this time as coach of newly-promoted-to-Serie-B Avellino.

 

Zeman WAS employed for a while this season, by Salernitana. They eventually fired him but could still not be saved.

BTW, ex-Inter coach Gigi Simoni has rejected a switch to Napoli and will remain at Ancona, who he just brought up to Serie A.

Salvatore Vullo coached Avellino this season. He was fired after the season due to some differences with the club's management.

 

I think part of it is the strict licensing procedures that coaches in Italy must follow. I remember there was some snafu when Mancini, was it? was set to start coaching because he didn't have his license, and he had to coach from the stands while some procedure was forced through quickly. Actually, I may be thinking of David Platt when he was briefly at Sampdoria, but whatever ... Certainly, some players must think ahead and get their coaching licenses while they're still playing.

There ARE some pretty big-name coaches out there that (I believe) are currently not with any team. Alberto Zaccheroni ... Marco Tardelli (where IS he?) ... Gianluca Vialli (and where is HE?!) ... but these guys probably demand way too much money for these little clubs.

 

I don't think Tardelli has had a head coaching position since Inter, no. I don't think he did a half bad job either. After all, even Lippi couldn't make a mark there.

More news from the Serie B ranks:

Napoli (OUT: Franco Colomba - to Reggina, IN: Andrea Agostinell, who was fired by Piacenza during the season).

Verona (OUT: Alberto Malesani - to Modena, IN: Walter Salvioni, from Cosenza. Previously coached at Nice in France and was for six years Parma's primavera coach).

 

More Serie B news:

Triestina - OUT: Ezio Rossi (to Torino) IN: Attilio Tesser.

Messina - OUT: interim coach Bruno Bolchi, who replaced Francesco Oddo in the last weeks of the saeson, IN: Vicenzo Patania (from Martina).

And filling in some gaps:

Atalanta - OUT: Finardi, who had replaced Vavassori. IN: Andrea Mandorlini (from Vicenza)

Ascoli - OUT: Pillon, IN: Dominissini.

Torino - OUT: Renzo Ulivieri, IN: Ezio Rossi - from Triestina).

Palermo - OUT: Nedo Sonetti, IN: Silvio Baldini (from Empoli)

Livorno - OUT: Roberto Donadoni, IN: Walter Mazzarri (from Pistoiese)

Venezia - OUT: Bellotto, IN: Gregucci.

Vicenza - OUT: Andrea Mandorlini (to Atalanta), IN: Iachini

 

Newly-promoted Ancona has fired Gigi Simoni and looks likely to hire Carlo Mazzone. It always mystifies me when teams get rid of somebody who just got them promotoed ...

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jun22h.html

 

Correcting myself here. Marco Tardelli is actually now coaching at Bari in Serie B. He took over mid-season this year. I guess I'd missed it ... glad he is coaching somewhere. I hope he takes them back to Serie A because I thought he was given an unfair shake.

 

Capello is looking more likely to be on his way to Real Madrid after they fired Del Bosque. Sensi refuses to fire him because they'd have to pay his contract anyway, so they're hoping he goes. Then Roma would hire Mazzone ...

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jun24f.html

 

Yes, this was actually a more accurate translation than the "I would jump for joy" comment attributed to Sensi in the channel4.com article. My husband cracked up when they showed portions of the interview on SportSera, and I asked if he'd said "jump for joy", and he said no, he said he'd do a flip or something, so somersault is definitely closer. You have to admit the image of Franco Sensi doing a somersault is pretty amusing to consider.