Giuseppe Raffaele

Giuseppe Raffaele

Personal information
Full name	Giuseppe Raffaele Addamo [1]
Date of birth	(1975-12-05) 5 December 1975 (age 48)
Place of birth	Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Italy
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Marsala
	Igea Virtus
	Sciacca
	Sancataldese
	Locri
	Vittoria
	Monturanese
	Castrovillari
	Scalea
Managerial career
2006–2011	Due Torri
2011–2012	Akragas
2012–2014	Orlandina
2014–2018	Igea Virtus
2018	ACR Messina
2018–2020	Potenza
2020–2021	Catania
2021	Viterbese
2022–2023	Potenza
2024–	Audace Cerignola
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Giuseppe Raffaele (born 5 December 1975) is an Italian professional association football coach, currently in charge of Serie C club Audace Cerignola. ^[2]

Playing career

Raffaele's playing career was amassed entirely in the amateur leagues of Sicily and Calabria as a striker and started in 1991 at Marsala. Then he played for Igea Virtus, Sciacca, Sancataldese, Locri, Vittoria, Monturanese, Castrovillari and Scalea. In 2006 he retired due to a serious injury. ^[3]

Coaching career

He started his coaching career in 2006 with small Sicilian amateurs Due Torri, which he led in 2011 up to the national promotion playoff finals of the Eccellenza league.

After a season at Eccellenza level with Akragas in 2013, he guided Orlandina to win promotion to Serie D. After being sacked in February 2014, he was hired in December 2014 by Igea Virtus, the club from his hometown, which he guided to win promotion to Serie D by the end of the season.

He stayed on as an Igea Virtus head coach until 2018, after which he was hired by ACR Messina, with whom, however, he did not even start the season. Later, in October 2018, he was instead given his first professional job as the new head coach of Serie C's Potenza, guiding the Rossoblu to fifth and fourth place in the two seasons in charge of the club. ^[4]

He was subsequently hired as the new head coach of Catania for the 2020–21 season. ^[3] However, he was sacked on 18 March 2021 following a string of negative results. ^[5]

On 4 October 2021, Raffaele took over as the new head coach of Serie C club Viterbese, replacing Alessandro Dal Canto. ^[6] He was sacked himself a month later, on 7 November 2021, due to poor results. ^[7]

On 25 October 2022, he returned to Potenza, agreeing a contract until 30 June 2023 with an option to extend it for one more year. ^[8] He left the club by the end of the season despite having a contract for one more year. ^[9] He rescinded his contract with Potenza on 7 December 2023, after having declined for personal reasons to return to the club following the dismissal of incumbent head coach Franco Lerda. ^[10]

On 11 March 2024, Raffaele was hired as the new head coach of Audace Cerignola until the end of the season.

References

1. "Catania, panchina affidata a Giuseppe Raffaele" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport - Stadio. 14 August 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
2. "Italy - G. Raffaele - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
3. Mirabella, Gabriele (2020-08-26). "RAFFAELE: da bomber tra i dilettanti ad allenatore emergente, profilo del nuovo mister rossazzurro". Tutto Calcio Catania (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-18.
4. "Chi è Giuseppe Raffaele, il nuovo mister dei rossoblu..." Tutto Potenza (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-18.
5. "Calcio Catania, esonerato l'allenatore Giuseppe Raffaele" (in Italian). CataniaToday. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
6. "Viterbese, è Giuseppe Raffaele il nuovo tecnico. Contratto biennale" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
7. "Serie C, Viterbese: ufficiale l'esonero di Raffaele" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport - Stadio. 7 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
8. "Potenza, Raffaele torna in panchina: accordo fino a giugno con opzione" (in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
9. "Calcio: in serie C il Potenza riparte con Colombo in panchina" (in Italian). ANSA.it. 26 June 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
10. "UFFICIALE: RESCISSIONE CONSENSUALE CON GIUSEPPE RAFFAELE" (in Italian). Potenza Calcio. 7 December 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.