Armando Perna (born 25 April 1981) is an Italian football coach and former

central defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

who is currently working for

Legnago Legnago () is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Verona, Veneto, northern Italy, with population (2012) of 25,439. It is located on the Adige river, about from Verona. Its fertile land produces crops of rice, other cereals, sugar, and toba ...

as an assistant coach.

Career

He started his career at Serie C1 team Palermo. He was loaned to

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...

Udinese Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a ...

youth team in 2000. In 2001, he was loaned to Livorno, another Serie C1 team, playing 10 games. After Livorno won promotion, the team signed him permanently. He found it difficult to win a regular place, just playing 12 games in his first

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had been ...

season. He was loaned out again, this time to

Salernitana Unione Sportiva Salernitana 1919, commonly referred to as Salernitana, is an Italian football club based in Salerno, Campania. The original club was founded in 1919 and has been reconstituted three times in the course of its history, most recentl ...

and Modena, both Serie B. Modena F.C. signed him in a co-ownership deal in 2005, and gained full ownership in 2006. He was loaned to

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 inhabitants, Parma is the second mos ...

in January 2007, until the end of the season. On 7 September 2020 he moved to

. After one season as a team captain, in June 2021 Perna announced his retirement, whilst remaining at Legnago as an assistant coach.

References

External links

aic.football.it
* * 1981 births Footballers from Palermo Living people Italian men's footballers Men's association football central defenders Palermo FC players Udinese Calcio players US Livorno 1915 players US Salernitana 1919 players Modena FC 2018 players Parma Calcio 1913 players Calcio Padova players SSD Correggese Calcio 1948 players Paganese Calcio 1926 players FC Legnago Salus players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Serie D players SS Maceratese 1922 players {{Italy-footy-defender-1980s-stub