Bruno Tedino (born 13 August 1964) is an Italian professional

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coach and former player who is currently manager of club Trento.

Managerial career

After a short career as a player cut short by an injury at the age of 22, Tedino turned into management and took his first role in 1986 as youth coach of Sandonà. He then also served as youth coach for other teams such as Treviso, Conegliano and Montebelluna. From 1995 to 1997 he worked as youth coach of Venezia, during the ownership of

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. He took over his first professional head coaching role in 1997, at the age of 32, with

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club Sandonà. He successively worked as head coach for a variety of other Northern Italian teams in the lower leagues, such as Novara,

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, Südtirol,

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and Città di Jesolo (then SandonàJesolo). In 2013 he was personally picked by Arrigo Sacchi, then coordinator of the Italian youth national teams, as new head coach of the Italy U16; he was successively promoted in charge of the Italy U17 one year later. In 2015 he left his role in order to accept an offer from

; after the club was readmitted to Lega Pro to fill a vacancy, he guided it to two consecutive promotion playoff participations in 2016 and 2017, losing to

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and Parma (the latter on penalties) at the semi-finals in both occasions. On 22 June 2017, it was announced he was the new head coach of Serie B club

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, in what would represent his first appearance in the second tier of Italian football, as well as his first coaching experience in Southern Italy. Under his managership, Palermo ended the first half of the season in first place, but experienced a decline in results towards the end of the season, resulting to the ''Rosanero'' being overtaken by

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and reached by Frosinone and Parma; a 0–3 loss to Venezia which put automatic promotion in danger with five games to go eventually led to Tedino being removed from his coaching post and replaced by

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on 28 April 2018. In June 2018 he returned to Palermo, being named as head coach for the

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campaign, after the club missed promotion to Serie A following a two-legged defeat to Frosinone in the playoff finals. After a lacklustre start to the season, he was however sacked again on 26 September 2018 following a 1–2 loss to Brescia. On 1 July 2019, Tedino was announced as new head coach of Serie C club

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. He was dismissed on 16 February 2020 due to poor results. On 17 August 2020, he replaced

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as manager of Serie B side Virtus Entella. He was dismissed on 23 November 2020 following a dismal start to the season. On 18 October 2021, Tedino signed a one-year contract with Serie B club

, thus returning in charge of the ''Ramarri'' four years after his departure in 2017. On 12 May 2022, after failing to save Pordenone from relegation, the club announced Tedino would not be confirmed as head coach. On 11 October 2022, he was hired by Serie C club Trento.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tedino, Bruno 1964 births Footballers from Treviso Living people Italian football managers Novara FC managers Pordenone Calcio managers FC Südtirol managers US Pistoiese 1921 managers Palermo FC managers SSD Città di Teramo managers Virtus Entella managers Serie B managers Serie C managers