Bortolo Mutti (born 11 August 1954 in

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) is an Italian

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and a former player, who was most recently manager of

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. His older brother Tiziano Mutti also played football professionally. To distinguish them, Tiziano was referred to as Mutti I and Bortolo as Mutti II.

Career

After a reasonably good playing career as a striker/

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with a number of

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and

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teams, including

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, Mutti became a coach in 1988, when he made his debut at the helm of Interregionale club Palazzolo. From 1991 to 1993 he coached

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, achieving an impressive promotion to

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. From 1993 to 1995 he served as coach of Serie B team

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, obtaining two tenth places with the ''gialloblu''. Later called to coach Serie B team Cosenza during the 1995–96 season, he led the club to save from relegation. In 1996, he had his first opportunity to coach a

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team,

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, where he achieved to keep the team in the Italian top flight. In 1997, he was called by

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, being however sacked soon later due to poor results in the Serie A. A sixth place in Serie B with

in 1998–99 was followed by a return to Cosenza, where he served as head coach for two seasons achieving an 11th and an 8th place. In 2001–02 he was appointed at the helm of newly promoted Serie B team

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, where he ended the season with an 11th place. He was called back by a Serie A team,

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, but was fired in the mid-season. From 2003 to 2006 he moved to the other side of the local strait, at

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, where Mutti achieved a promotion to Serie B in his first season; this was followed by a very impressive seventh place in their first Serie A campaign. However, Mutti's third season with Messina was not as successful as the previous two, being fired during the final part of the season. From February 2007 he is coach of Serie B club

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, being sacked later on in the 2007–08 end of season due to a string of poor results. On 11 January 2010 he agreed to return at his previous club Atalanta, taking over at the relegation-battling Serie A outfit from resigning boss

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. He ultimately failed in his desperate attempt to save Atalanta, ending the season in a disappointing eighteenth place, which led his club not to confirm him for the new season. On 10 February 2011 Mutti became the new head coach of bottom-placed Serie A club

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in place of

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. But, Bari were subsequently relegated to

and he was dismissed after the 2010–11 season. On 19 December 2011 he agreed to return to

, replacing

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as head coach of the

club from Sicily. In his first game in charge of the club, he achieved a 2–2 draw against bottom-table strugglers

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, which was followed by a 1–3 home defeat at the hands of

. After a disappointing start, results improved in January also thanks to winter signings such as

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and

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(the latter being team captain during his previous period at Bari), leading to a string of four consecutive home wins and a 4–4 away draw at

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against

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that brought Palermo back into the fight for a

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spot. Palermo finished in 16th in the 2011–12 season and he was released six months after taking over as head coach.

References

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Coaching career profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mutti, Bortolo 1954 births Living people Sportspeople from the Province of Bergamo Italian footballers Italian football managers U.S. Massese 1919 players Delfino Pescara 1936 players Catania S.S.D. players Brescia Calcio players Taranto F.C. 1927 players Atalanta B.C. players Mantova 1911 players Serie B players Serie C players Hellas Verona F.C. managers Cosenza Calcio managers Piacenza Calcio 1919 managers S.S.C. Napoli managers Atalanta B.C. managers Palermo F.C. managers Reggina 1914 managers A.C.R. Messina managers Modena F.C. managers U.S. Salernitana 1919 managers S.S.C. Bari managers Calcio Padova managers Association football forwards U.S. Livorno 1915 managers People from Trescore Balneario Footballers from Lombardy