Giovanni Galeone

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Giovanni Galeone
Personal information
Date of birth (1941-01-25) 25 January 1941 (age 82)
Place of birth Naples, Italy
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Ponziana Trieste
Monza
Udinese
Managerial career
1975–1976 Pordenone
1976–1977 Adriese
1978–1979 Cremonese
1979–1980 Sangiovannese
1980–1981 Grosseto
1981–1983 Udinese (youth team)
1983–1986 SPAL
1986–1989 Pescara
1989–1990 Como
1990–1993 Pescara
1994–1995 Udinese
1995–1997 Perugia
1997–1998 Napoli
1999–2001 Pescara
2003–2004 Ancona
2006–2007 Udinese
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Giovanni Galeone (born 25 January 1941) is an Italian football manager and former player.

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Playing career

Galeone, born in Naples, moved to Northern Italy in his youth years,[ citation needed ] and played as a midfielder for Ponziana Trieste, Monza and Udinese, where he spent most of his playing career. [1]

Managerial career

Galeone started his coaching career at 34 for Serie D team Pordenone, in 1975–76, obtaining an eleventh place in his debut season. His first coaching experience in a professional league came in the 1978–79 season for Cremonese of Serie C1, but ended with a sacking. After a few other experiences, including three fairly successful seasons at SPAL of Serie C1, in 1986–87 Galeone signed for Serie B team Pescara, the team whose name is associated with him still today. In his debut season with Pescara, Galeone won Serie B and led his team directly to Serie A , and managed to save Pescara from relegation the following season for the first time ever for his side. He left Pescara in 1988–89, after having failed to avoid relegation for his second time, but returned in 1990–91 and regained promotion to Serie A in 1991–92. Other than Pescara, where he coached also in 1999–2000 and 2000–01, Galeone served as head coach for Udinese Calcio in 1994–95, obtaining a Serie A promotion, Perugia in 1995–96, where he obtained his fourth and final Serie A promotion, Napoli in 1997–98 and Ancona in 2003–04. In 2006, Galeone made his comeback at Udinese, as he was called to replace Loris Dominissini and Néstor Sensini at the helm of the bianconeri.

Galeone is well known for being a strong advocate for the 4–3–3 formation, zonal marking, and an attacking style of playing, which made of him one of the most innovative Italian football coaches in the late 1980s alongside Arrigo Sacchi. At 65, he had been the oldest active head coach in the 2006–07 Serie A, before being fired on 16 January after disagreements with the club.

On 19 July 2007, he was announced to make a fourth comeback at Pescara, this time as technical consultant beside new boss Andrea Camplone, a former player of his in the 1990s, [2] but left the club only one month later. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Giovanni Galeone at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "Giovanni Galeone: la scheda" (in Italian). Pescara Calcio. 19 July 2007. Archived from the original on 6 October 2007.
  3. ↑ "Pescara nel caos: Si dimette anche mister Camplone" (in Italian). Yahoo! Sport Italia. 18 August 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
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