italian football coach
Gian Piero Ventura ( italian pronunciation : [ dʒam ˈpjɛːro venˈtuːra ] ; born 14 January 1948 ) is an italian football director. His playing career as a midfielder was spent in the lower leagues, having not made the grad at Sampdoria, where he began his coaching career with the young person team in 1976. He debuted in Serie A with Cagliari in 1998, and besides managed Udinese, Messina, Bari, Torino and Chievo in the top trajectory. Ventura was the director of the Italy national football team from 2016 to 2017. He was dismissed when they failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, their first absence from the tournament since 1958.

early years [edit ]

Ventura with Sanremese in the 1974–75 temper Ventura grew up play in the Sampdoria youth system. unable to land a invest in the inaugural team, he played about entirely in Serie D, with the exception of the 1970–71 season in Serie C with USD Enna, [ 2 ] with whom he made nine appearances. [ 3 ]

Managerial career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

Ventura began his career as a coach in the Blucerchiati ‘s young system, then becoming an adjunct coach in 1979. He left Sampdoria in 1981 to pursue a head coaching career, starting from several amateur teams from Liguria. In 1985, he achieved his first promotion to a professional league with Albenga and Entella. In 1987, Ventura became head bus of Spezia in Serie C1, but did not complete the season. Two poor people seasons with Centese, characterized by a displace, a reappointment and finally a relegation to Serie C2, were followed by a three-year tenure as Pistoiese foreman in the Interregionale, ended with a promotion to Serie C2 in his second season and a fourth place in the third base. In 1993, he became head coach of sicilian Serie C1 team Giarre, where he achieved an impressive fourth rate, presently the best always result ever achieved by the golf club. In 1993, Ventura was appointed by Maurizio Zamparini to coach Venezia of Serie B. In his first season, Ventura obtained a estimable sixth target, but this was not followed by an improvement in results in his second season, which ended with his sacking. In 1995, Ventura returned to Serie C1 at the helm of Lecce, which he led to two consecutive promotions up to Serie A. In 1997, he joined Cagliari, which he led to a agile return to Serie A. In 1998–99 he finally made his personal Serie A debut, leading Cagliari to a 12th-place finish .

2000s [edit ]

During the 1999–2000 season, he agreed a return at Sampdoria, this time as principal bus, but missed promotion to Serie A after ending the season in fifth home. After a year without a team, Ventura returned coaching during the 2001–02 season, this time at Udinese replacing displace Roy Hodgson, obtaining fair an unimpressive fourteenth place. From 2002 to 2003, he returned at Cagliari : a impregnable ninth-place coating in his first season was followed by a sack during the future one. In 2004–05, he was appointed at the helm of refounded club Napoli, with the finish to achieve contiguous promotion to Serie B. however, Ventura did not manage to guide the team to the identical top postpone positions, and he was late fired and replaced with Edoardo Reja. Ventura returned to coaching a Serie A cabaret during the 2005–06 season, when he replaced Bortolo Mutti at the helm of Messina in an abortive attack to escape from delegating. In December 2006, he was hired by Verona to replace Massimo Ficcadenti. Despite a clear improvement in results his club, which was in the bottom of the board at Ventura ‘s date time, did not manage to avoid playing a delegating playoff, losing it to Spezia. In June 2007, Ventura was announced as newly head coach of newly promoted Serie B club Pisa. After an impressive first temper with Pisa, ended with Pisa unexpectedly playing in the promotion playoffs ( then being eliminated by Lecce, who late defeated AlbinoLeffe to win forwarding in the top flight ), a club takeover from Rome -based entrepreneur Luca Pomponi raised rumours about his possible surrogate with Alessandro Costacurta. He was by and by confirmed by the new place after Costacurta declined interest in the managerial position, only to be sacked on April 2009 following a string of unimpressive results. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

Bari [edit ]

On 26 June 2009, Ventura signed to manage Bari, replacing Antonio Conte. [ 6 ] In the 2009–10 season, Ventura ‘s Bari was one of the revelations of the temper, [ 7 ] combining attractive football and positive results, finishing in one-tenth seat on 50 points ( a record in Serie A for the Pugliese ). Ventura would besides launch the careers of young talents Leonardo Bonucci and Andrea Ranocchia, who at the end of the season would become separate of the Italy national team. The 2010–11 campaign saw Ventura confirmed as lead coach. Due to a poor transfer market and a rash of injuries, Bari sat in last place at the midway bespeak of the season. however, Bari won the Derby di Puglia against rivals Lecce on 6 January 2011, thanks to a goal from lend signing Stefano Okaka. On 10 February 2011, with Bari sitting death in the table with alone one win in four months and nine points from relegation guard, Ventura agreed to part company with the club and was replaced by Bortolo Mutti. [ 8 ]

turin [edit ]

On 6 June 2011, Ventura was announced as the modern director of Serie B english Torino ahead of the 2011–12 season, [ 9 ] signing an annual abridge. Ventura revolutionised the team with the arrival of respective new players and launching the likes of Angelo Ogbonna, Kamil Glik and Matteo Darmian. He secured promotion to Serie A during the 2011–12 season on 20 May 2012 ( with one matchday to spare ) following a 2–0 home victory against Modena. In the 2012–13 temper, Ventura led Torino to 16th set in the circus tent trajectory, securing safety from relegation on 12 May 2013 after a 1–1 draw away to Chievo. It would besides see the arrival of Jean-François Gillet, Alessandro Gazzi and Alessio Cerci, Ventura ‘s erstwhile pupils at Bari and Pisa. On 6 February 2014, Ventura renewed his contract with Torino until 2016. [ 10 ] In the 2013–14 season, Ventura led Torino to seventh identify in Serie A and the qualifying rounds of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League. It was besides his personal best season for points secured in Serie A, with 57. On 22 February 2015, Ventura celebrated his hundredth pit as Torino head coach in Serie A, seizing a 1–1 reap against Fiorentina in Florence. Four days later, he obtained a historic victory in the round of 32 of the UEFA Europa League after defeating Athletic Bilbao 3–2 in Spain, qualifying turin for the adjacent round ; no italian team had ever previously won in Bilbao. On 26 April, he secured a 2–1 victory against Juventus at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, handing Torino their first victory in the bowler hat in 20 years. [ 11 ] On 16 November 2015, Ventura ‘s shrink with Torino was renewed until 30 June 2018. [ 12 ] On 16 December, he set a raw record for consecutive appearances as coach of Torino, overtaking Luigi Radice, with 194 appearances. [ 13 ] On 25 May 2016, after five years in charge of the Granata, and having closed the 2015–16 temper in 12th place, he terminated his contract by reciprocal accept with Torino. [ 14 ]

Italy [edit ]

On 7 June 2016, Ventura was named successor for Antonio Conte of the Italy national team, assuming his stead on 18 July, following UEFA Euro 2016, [ 15 ] and signing a biennial deal with the italian Football Federation. [ 16 ] On 1 September 2016, he made his debut as Italy director in a 3–1 home frustration to France. [ 17 ] Ventura won his first competitive match in bang of Italy four days late, in the team ‘s open 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tie aside to Israel, 3–1. [ 18 ] On 9 August 2017, his contract was extended until 2020. [ 19 ] Italy failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup after a 1–0 aggregate passing to Sweden in the play-offs ; this was the first base time since the 1958 FIFA World Cup that Italy had failed to qualify for the tournament. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In the events after the meet, Ventura stated, “ I apologised to Italians for this result. It ‘s atrocious to see a World Cup without Italy, but it ‘s done now and I ca n’t do anything about it. ” besides when asked about the national team ‘s operation under his leadership he stated, “ My commemorate is one of the best of the last 40 years. I lost only two games in two years. ” [ 22 ] After refusing to resign, two days following the kill, on 15 November, Ventura was sacked, [ 23 ] with the president of the united states of the italian Football Federation Carlo Tavecchio resigning five days later on 20 November. [ 24 ] [ 25 ]

Chievo [edit ]

On 10 October 2018, and about a year after missing the World Cup qualification with the Italy national team, Ventura returned into management by signing a biennial softwood with last-placed Serie A clubhouse Chievo. [ 26 ] After three defeats and one draw in his first four matches in charge, Ventura announced his resignation, and on 13 November 2018, his narrow was consensually resolved. [ 27 ]

Salernitana [edit ]

On 30 June 2019, Ventura signed as director of Serie B slope Salernitana. [ 28 ] On 1 August 2020, Ventura resigned from Salernitana after failing to secure a promotion play-off spotlight and being insulted by club president of the united states Claudio Lotito. [ 29 ]

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 31 July 2020[30]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
Giarre Italy 5 June 1992 15 June 1993 37 15 13 9 39 29 +10 0 40.54
Venezia Italy 4 July 1994 12 September 1994 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1 0 33.33
Venezia Italy 15 December 1994 10 April 1995 15 5 3 7 20 20 +0 0 33.33
Lecce Italy 24 June 1995 18 June 1997 82 37 29 16 112 79 +33 0 45.12
Cagliari Italy 20 June 1997 30 June 1999 80 28 29 23 113 98 +15 0 35.00
Sampdoria Italy 30 June 1999 12 June 2000 46 22 11 13 58 49 +9 0 47.83
Udinese Italy 12 December 2001 21 June 2002 22 6 5 11 19 30 −11 0 27.27
Cagliari Italy 12 September 2002 24 November 2003 55 21 17 17 77 65 +12 0

38.18

Napoli Italy 14 June 2004 16 January 2005 19 7 6 6 22 21 +1 0 36.84
Messina Italy 27 March 2006 16 May 2006 7 1 0 6 4 16 −12 0 14.29
Hellas Verona Italy 25 December 2006 25 June 2007 26 10 8 8 29 29 +0 0 38.46
Pisa Italy 2 July 2007 20 April 2009 82 31 23 28 105 99 +6 0 37.80
Bari Italy 27 June 2009 10 February 2011 66 18 17 31 71 94 −23 0 27.27
Torino Italy 6 June 2011 25 May 2016 217 85 64 68 299 256 +43 0 39.17
Italy Italy 19 July 2016 15 November 2017 16 9 4 3 27 13 +14 0 56.25
Chievo Italy 10 October 2018 13 November 2018 4 0 1 3 4 11 −7 00 0.00
Salernitana Italy 30 June 2019 1 August 2020 40 15 10 15 56 55 +1 0 37.50
Career total 817 311 240 266 1,057 967 +90 0 38.07

Honours [edit ]

Lecce
Entella

Pistoiese

References [edit ]