Marco Giampaolo

Marco Giampaolo
Personnel
birthday	2nd August 1967
place of birth	Bellinzona ,  Switzerland
size	180 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1986-1990	Giulianova Calcio	109 (0)
1990-1992	AS Gubbio 1910	43 (0)
1992-1993	Licata Calcio	34 (1)
1993-1995	SC Siracusa	49 (2)
1995-1996	Fidelis Andria	36 (1)
1996-1997	AS Gualdo	18 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2004-2005	Ascoli Calcio
2006-2007	Cagliari Calcio
2008-2009	AC Siena
2010-2011	Catania Calcio
2011	AC Cesena
2013	Brescia Calcio
2014-2015	US Cremonese
2015-2016	FC Empoli
2016-2019	Sampdoria Genoa
2019	AC Milan
2020–	Torino FC
1 Only league games are given.

Marco Giampaolo (born August 2, 1967 in Bellinzona , Switzerland ) is a former Italian football player and current coach .

As a player rather inferior at Giulianova Calcio , AS Gubbio and SC Siracusa , Giampaolo later coached Ascoli Calcio , Cagliari Calcio , Catania Calcio and AC Milan . Since August 2020 he has been the head coach of the Italian first division club FC Turin .

Player career

Marco Giampaolo was born on August 2, 1967 in Bellinzona , Switzerland , but moved to Italy at an early age . His first position as a football player was from 1986 at Giulianova Calcio , where he spent the following four years until 1990, during which time he played 109 league games without scoring for the club. Giulianova Calcio played a constant role in Serie C2 at the time and achieved a midfield position in all four seasons that Marco Giampaolo was there. From 1990 to 1992 Giampaolo then played at AS Gubbio 1910 , where he came in two years to 43 appearances in the league, again without scoring a goal. Gubbio then played in the same division as Giulianova Calcio, but had to go to fifth division at the end of the 1991/92 season, whereupon Marco Giampaolo left the club. From 1992 to 1993, the midfielder then played a season with the former second division club Licata Calcio , where he came to 34 league games and also scored his first goal in the league.

From 1993 to 1995 followed a two-year activity for SC Siracusa in the C1 series . After relegation to Serie C2 was just missed in the first season, the Sicilian team qualified for the playoffs for promotion to Serie B in the 1994/95 season , but where they failed at the US Avellino . Thereupon Marco Giampaolo left Syracuse again and joined Fidelis Andria , who then played second class. For Andria Giampaolo made a total of 36 league games in Serie B, where he succeeded in scoring. As seventeenth in Serie B 1995/96 with one point behind Brescia Calcio , however, the gang had to be started in the third division after Fidelis Andria had previously played second class for four years. Marco Giampaolo then changed employers again and played football for AS Gualdo for another year before ending his active career in 1997 at the age of just thirty.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a soccer player, Marco Giampaolo worked from 2000 as an assistant coach at Pescara Calcio , Giulianova Calcio and FBC Treviso . With Treviso, Giampaolo rose as assistant coach in the 2002/03 season in Serie B after finishing the Girone A of Serie C1 as the first before UC AlbinoLeffe . In Serie B 2003/04 the relatively safe relegation followed with 15th place.

For the 2004/05 season Marco Giampaolo was together with Massimo Silva new coach of the second division Ascoli Calcio . With Ascoli, Giampaolo and Silva finished the season in fifth place, which actually would not have been eligible for promotion to Serie A. However, since both Torino Calcio and AC Perugia had to relegate due to financial problems, fourth-placed Treviso and Ascoli Calcio moved up into the promotion ranks, so that both teams made promotion to Serie A together with second division champions FC Empoli . For Serie A 2005/06 Marco Giampaolo was again assistant coach in Ascoli Picchio, while Massimo Silva was now the sole head coach. The season ended in tenth place, whereby the relegation was managed sovereign.

In the summer of 2006 Marco Giampaolo was the new head coach of the first division club Cagliari Calcio . With the team he managed to stay in the league as seventeenth, where he was fired after sixteen matchdays, replaced by Franco Colomba and after his dismissal was reinstalled as a coach nine more matchdays later. After twelve match days of the following season Giampaolo was released again in Cagliari. The 2008/09 season spent Giampaolo as coach of AC Siena , with whom he ended the season in fourteenth place in Serie A. After nine match days of the following year he was dismissed at AC Siena. Giampaolo Catania Calcio trained during the first twenty match days of Serie A 2010/11 , but was then dismissed and replaced by Diego Simeone . At the beginning of the following season Giampaolo coached AC Cesena , but was relieved of his duties after only ten games without having won a game. After just six match days, his activity at Brescia Calcio ended at the beginning of Serie B 2013/14 .

In the Lega Pro 2014/15 Marco Giampaolo coached the US Cremonese , but only achieved a midfield position with the former first division club. In summer 2015 Giampaolo inherited the resigned Maurizio Sarri as coach of the first division club FC Empoli .

In the summer of 2016 Giampaolo changed after the contract expires at Sampdoria , where he on to AC Milan migrated Vincenzo Montella followed.

In the summer of 2019, Giampaolo moved to AC Milan himself to become Gennaro Gattuso's successor . However, after only nine points from seven games, he was released from his duties in early October.

On August 7, 2020, Giampaolo was introduced as the new head coach of Turin FC .

successes

• Promotion to Serie A : 1 ×

2004/05 with Ascoli Calcio

Web links

• Marco Giampaolo in the database of weltfussball.de
• Outline of his coaching career (Italian)
• Profile of his playing career (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: MARCO GIAMPAOLO. Retrieved October 9, 2019 . 
2. ^ Giampaolo al Toro. In: torinofc.it. Torino Football Club SpA , August 7, 2020, accessed August 9, 2020 (Italian).