Giampiero Ventura
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Giampiero Ventura is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
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Italy
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football manager
Coach (sport)
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and the current manager of Torino
Torino F.C.
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Career
After a short playing career started with SampdoriaU.C. Sampdoria
Unione Calcio Sampdoria is an Italian association football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria...
, Ventura was forced to retire from active football at the age of 25 because of a serious back injury. He therefore opted to become a coach in the blucerchiati 's youth system, then becoming an assistant coach in 1979; he then left Sampdoria in 1981 to pursue a head coaching career, starting from several amateur teams from Liguria
Liguria
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. In 1985 he achieved his first promotion to a professional league with Entella
A.C.D. Virtus Entella
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In 1987 he became head coach of Spezia
Spezia Calcio 1906
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in the Serie C1
Serie C1
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, but did not complete the season. Two poor seasons with Centese, characterized by a sacking, a reappointment and finally a relegation to Serie C2
Serie C2
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, were followed by a three-year tenure as A.C. Pistoiese
A.C. Pistoiese
Unione Sportiva Pistoiese 1921 is an Italian association football club, based in Pistoia, Tuscany.At the end of the 2010-11 Eccellenza season, Pistoiese was promoted to Serie D....
boss in the Interregionale
Serie D
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, ended with a promotion to Serie C2
Serie C2
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in his second season and a fourth place in the third. In 1993 he became head coach of Sicilian
Sicily
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Serie C1 team Giarre
A.S. Giarre Calcio
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, where he achieved a very impressive fourth place, that is still the best result ever achieved by the club as of today. In 1993 he was appointed by Maurizio Zamparini
Maurizio Zamparini
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to coach Venezia of Serie B
Serie B
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: in his first season, Ventura obtained a good sixth place; this was not followed by an improvement in results in his second season, ended with a sacking.
In 1995 Ventura returned to Serie C1 at the helm of Lecce
U.S. Lecce
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, which he led to two consecutive promotions up to Serie A
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. In 1997 he joined Cagliari
Cagliari Calcio
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, which he led to a quick return to Serie A. In 1998–99 he finally made his personal Serie A debut, leading Cagliari to a 12th place. During the 1999–2000 season, he agreed a return at Sampdoria, this time as head coach, but missed promotion to Serie A ending the season in fifth place.
After a year without a team, Ventura returned coaching during the 2001–02 season, this time at Udinese
Udinese Calcio
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, obtaining just an unimpressive 14th place. From 2002 to 2004 he returned at Cagliari: a good ninth place in his first season was however followed by a sacking during the next one. In 2004–05 he was appointed at the helm of refounded team Napoli Soccer
S.S.C. Napoli
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, with the goal to achieve immediate promotion to Serie B: however, Ventura did not manage to guide the team to the very top table positions, and he was later fired and replaced with Edoardo Reja
Edoardo Reja
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. He returned coaching a Serie A club during the 2005–06 season, when he replaced Bortolo Mutti
Bortolo Mutti
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at the helm of Messina
F.C. Messina Peloro
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in an unsuccessful attempt to escape from relegation. In December 2006 he was called by Verona
Hellas Verona F.C.
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to replace Massimo Ficcadenti
Massimo Ficcadenti
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; despite a clear improvement in results his club, which was in the bottom of the table at Ventura's appointment time, did not manage to avoid playing a relegation playoff, losing it to Spezia.
Later on June 2007, Ventura was announced as new head coach of newly-promoted Serie B club Pisa
Pisa Calcio
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After an impressive first season with Pisa, ended with Pisa unexpectedly playing in the promotion playoffs (then being eliminated by Lecce
U.S. Lecce
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, who later defeated AlbinoLeffe
U.C. AlbinoLeffe
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to win promotion in the top flight), a club takeover from Rome-based enterpreneur Luca Pomponi raised rumours about his possible replacement with Alessandro Costacurta
Alessandro Costacurta
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. He was later confirmed by the new property after Costacurta declined interest in the managerial position, only to be sacked on April 2009 following a string of unimpressive results.
On June 26, 2009 Ventura was signed to manage A.S. Bari
A.S. Bari
Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B....
until June 2010, replacing Antonio Conte
Antonio Conte
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who had been at the helm since December 2007. He guided Bari to a positive 10th place, defeating teams like Juventus and Palermo along the way, and garnering praise for the team's fun and attractive style of play. The 2010-11 Serie A campaign has been much more difficult, due to a poor transfer market and a rash of injuries, with Bari sitting in last place at the midway point. Bari did however win the Derby di Puglia against U.S. Lecce
U.S. Lecce
Unione Sportiva Lecce or simply U.S. Lecce is an Italian football club based in Lecce, Apulia who play in the Italian Serie A. After being crowned Serie B champions in 2009–10, the team successfully managed to avoid relegation in 2010-11....
on 6 January 2011, thanks to a goal from loan signing Stefano Okaka. On 10 February 2011, with Bari sitting last in the table, with only one win in four months and 9 points from safety, Ventura agreed to part company with the club and was replaced by Bortolo Mutti
Bortolo Mutti
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He is the head coach of Torino
Torino F.C.
Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Torino, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that was founded in 1906. The club has spent most of its history in the top tier in Italian football....
for the season 2011-12 in Serie B
Serie B
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