Bruno Giorgi (footballer)

Bruno Giorgi

Personal information
Date of birth	(1940-11-20)20 November 1940
Place of birth	Pavia, Italy
Date of death	22 September 2010(2010-09-22) (aged 69)
Place of death	Reggio Emilia, Italy
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Full back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1962–1966	Palermo	111	(1)
1966–1972	Reggiana	203	(0)
Managerial career
1975–1976	Reggiana
1976–1977	Empoli
1977–1979	Nocerina
1980–1981	Campobasso
1981–1982	Modena
1982–1983	Padova
1983–1986	Vicenza
1986–1988	Brescia
1988–1989	Cosenza
1989–1990	Fiorentina
1990–1992	Atalanta
1992–1993	Genoa
1993–1994	Cagliari
1996	Cagliari
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bruno Giorgi (20 November 1940 – 22 September 2010) was an Italian football player and manager who played as a defender.

Biography

After an unremarkable career with teams such as Palermo and Reggiana, Giorgi became a football coach. In 1989, after several experiences in minor league football (including a stint at Vicenza during which he had the opportunity to launch a young Roberto Baggio into his early footsteps into first team football), and immediately after narrowly missing top flight promotion with Serie B outsiders Cosenza, he took the head coaching job at Fiorentina (also, his first Serie A job) where he performed badly at domestic league level but also leading the club to the 1989–90 UEFA Cup final, being however removed from his position before the two-legged final itself was actually played.

In 1993, he was appointed head coach of Cagliari, an experience that ended after only one season with a remarkable 1993–94 UEFA Cup semi-final. He returned briefly at Cagliari in 1996 to replace Giovanni Trapattoni, and successively retired from football altogether.

On 29 September 2010, it was revealed that Bruno Giorgi had died exactly a week earlier in a Reggio Emilia clinic.