Giovanni Galeone

Giovanni Galeone

Personal information
Date of birth	(1941-01-25) January 25, 1941
Place of birth	Naples, Italy
Position(s)	Manager
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(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 January 25, 1941 in Naples) is an Italian football (soccer) manager.

Playing career

Galeone, born in Naples, moved to Northern Italy in his youth years, and played for Ponziana Trieste, Monza and Udinese, where he spent most of his playing career.

Managing career

Galeone started his coaching career at 34 for Serie D team Pordenone, in 1975/1976, obtaining an eleventh place in his debut season. His first coaching experience in a professional league came in 1978/1979 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 1986/1987 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 the first Serie A time ever for his side, and managed to save Pescara from relegation the following season. He left Pescara in 1988/1989, after having failed to avoid relegation for his second time, but returned in 1990/1991 and regained promotion to Serie A in 1991/1992. Other than Pescara, where he coached also in 1999/2000 and 2000/2001, Galeone served as head coach for Udinese Calcio in 1994/1995, obtaining a Serie A promotion, Perugia in 1995/1996, where he obtained his fourth and final Serie A promotion, Napoli in 1997/1998 and Ancona in 2003/2004. 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 4–3–3 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 2006/2007 Serie A, before being fired on January 16 after disagreements with the club.

On July 19, 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 him in the 1990s, but left the club only one month later.

External links

• (Italian) Galeone fan site