Giuseppe Iachini

Giuseppe Iachini

Personal information
Date of birth	May 7, 1964 (1964-05-07)
Place of birth	Ascoli Piceno, Italy
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Sampdoria (head coach)
Youth career
	Ascoli
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1981–1987	Ascoli	81	(9)
1987–1989	Verona	47	(1)
1989–1994	Fiorentina	126	(2)
1994–1996	Palermo	62	(1)
1996–1997	Ravenna	31	(1)
1997–2000	Venezia	65	(0)
2000–2001	Alessandria	14	(0)
Teams managed
2001–2002	Venezia
2002–2003	Cesena
2003–2004	Vicenza
2004–2007	Piacenza
2007–2008	ChievoVerona
2009–2010	Brescia
2011	Brescia
2011–	Sampdoria
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Giuseppe Iachini (born 7 May 1964 in Ascoli Piceno) is an Italian football coach and former player. He is the head coach of U.C. Sampdoria.

Career

Playing career

Iachini started his playing career at Ascoli, and made his Serie A and professional debut in 1981–1982, at the age of 17. He played for Ascoli until 1987, when he signed for Verona.

In 1989, Iachini moved to Fiorentina and played five seasons with the viola, four of them in Serie A. From 1994 to 1996 he played for Palermo of Serie B. After a single Serie B season with Ravenna, in 1997 Iachini transferred to Venezia, where he played for three years, two of them in Serie A. He retired in 2001, after a Serie C1 season with Alessandria.

Managing career

Venezia

Iachini started his coaching career in October 2001, when he was called to coach Venezia of Serie A, despite not being in possession of a coaching license yet. Assisted by "official" head coach Alfredo Magni, Iachini left his position as assistant coach at Piacenza in order to join Venezia, in spite of the Italian football regulation laws, and was successively disqualified for six months because of that. In the end, Venezia were relegated to Serie B.

Cesena

In 2002–2003, Iachini coached Cesena of Serie C1, leading his team to a spot in the promotion playoffs.

Vicenza

In 2003–2004, Iachini moved at Vicenza, in Serie B, where he managed a team composed mostly by youngsters and led them to a mid-table place.

Piacenza

He coached Piacenza, another Serie B club, from 2004–05 to 2006–07 with good results, including a notable fourth place, only behind Juventus, Napoli and Genoa, in his latest season with the biancorossi.

ChievoVerona

He was announced on June 2007 as new ChievoVerona boss for their 2007–08 Serie B campaign, and successfully led the gialloblu to become league champions and promptly mark their return in the top flight.

On November 4, 2008, following an unimpressive start in the 2008–09 Serie A campaign, and two days after a 3–0 loss to Palermo, Iachini was dismissed from his coaching post by the club management.

Brescia

On October 4, 2009 he was appointed new head coach of Serie B outfit Brescia, replacing Alberto Cavasin. Under his tenure, Brescia ended the regular season in third place, missing automatic promotion in the final game of the season. The team however went back to win the promotion playoffs and claim a place in the 2010–11 Serie A after defeating Torino F.C. in the finals.

After a wave of bad results, resulting on the team's dropdown to the relegation zone near the winter, on 6 December 2010, he was sacked; However he was called back at the helm of Brescia boss less than two months later, following the dismissal of his successor Mario Beretta on 30 January 2011.

Sampdoria

On 14 November 2011 Iachini was named as the new head coach of Sampdoria in Serie B in place of the sacked Gianluca Atzori.