Dominique D'Onofrio

Dominique D'Onofrio (2008)

Dominique D'Onofrio (born April 18, 1953 in Castelforte , Italy ; † February 12, 2016 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a Belgian football coach and functional .

Career

D'Onofrio, who moved to Belgium from Italy as a child, made his career as a football player exclusively in the Belgian amateur field. He ran for FC Ans , RRFC Montegnée and RJS Bas-Oha . Later he also worked as a coach in the lower-class league area.

After his brother Lucien D'Onofrio joined Standard Liège as a minority shareholder in 1998, he was one of the club's employees. At first he was active in youth work and convalescence, before he initially became assistant to Tomislav Ivić and after his resignation in December 2000 he was coaching the competition team together with Michel Preud'homme . After missing the European Cup qualification in 2002, he became the sole head coach and looked after the team for four seasons. After the runner-up in 2006 he was promoted to sports director, but after separating from László Bölöni in February 2010, he returned to the coaching bench. In 2011 he won the Belgian Cup with the club and was runner-up again. He then resigned from his position.

In December 2011, the French club FC Metz signed D'Onofrio as sports director. At the end of the season, the club was relegated to the third division, but then made it through to Ligue 1 . In 2013, FC Metz took over the Belgian fifth division team RFC Seraing , where D'Onofrio subsequently also became sports director.

During a trip abroad to scout players, D'Onofrio died of cardiac arrest in February 2016 at the age of 62.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dominique D'Onofrio est décédé des suites d'une crise cardiaque
2. ↑ Dominique D'Onofrio nouveau patron sportif de Metz