Ezio "Eziolino" Capuano (born 19 January 1965) is an Italian

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coach, currently in charge as head of club

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Career

Coach

Capuano is a head coach with massive experience as head coach in the lower ranks of Italian football, all from and below the third tier, and mostly in Southern Italy. He started his football activity as coach since the age of 20. In September 2010 he was named new head coach of bottom-placed Belgian top flight club

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, with no points in the first five games under the guidance of Capuano's predecessor. In his debut in charge of the club, Capuano guided Eupen to a 0–0 away draw to

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, the first point in top flight history for the club. This was followed by a home loss at the hands of Germinal Beerschot and a sounding 4–0 defeat at

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's home. On 24 September Capuano announced his immediate resignation from the club, together with his whole coaching staff. On 1 November he was announced as new head coach of

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side Paganese, a club he had already managed during the 2008–09 season. He has been the head coach of

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, since 17 January 2012 h until 18 December 2012, when he resigned. In July 2013 he was introduced as the new head coach of newly promoted Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Casertana. His time at Casertana was however quite short-lived, as he was fired after only three games in charge. Capuano returned into management in June 2014, as new head coach of

Arezzo Arezzo ( , , ) , also ; ett, 𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌕𐌉𐌌, Aritim. is a city and ''comune'' in Italy and the capital of the province of the same name located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about southeast of Florence at an elevation of above sea level. ...

; the club, originally scheduled to play in the amateur

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league at the time of Capuano's appointment, was then admitted to

Lega Pro The Serie C () is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing body that runs the Serie C. The unification of the Lega Pro ...

to fill a vacancy. He guided the team to safety in its first season, with a squad mostly composed by loans and emergency signings, and was offered a two-year extension by the end of the season. Capuano's second Arezzo season led him into the public spotlight due to a number of event, mostly originating from the exclusion of Nicolò Sperotto from the squad after he recorded Capuano's angry rant after a loss to an amateur team in a mid-week friendly game. Capuano himself was fired on 17 April 2016 after a winless streak of seven games and a falling out with the board, despite the team being in a safe league table position. On 28 November 2016, Capuano returned into management as head coach of Lega Pro club

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

in place of Simone Pavan. Following a positive start to his coaching stint, with Modena finally out of the relegation play-off zone, he accepted a one-year contract extension in March 2017. On 6 November,

was officially excluded from the league and dissolved after failing to attended four consecutive matches due to financial irregularities; all staff were subsequently released. On 10 November 2017, he was hired as the head coach of

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club Sambenedettese. He was dismissed from his coaching post on 29 April 2018, after a 0–1 home loss to AlbinoLeffe, with the team in second place in the league table with only one game to go. He returned into management on 8 January 2019 as head coach of newly promoted Serie C club

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, successfully saving the team from relegation by achieving 24 points in his 17 games in charge. He left the club by mutual consent at the end of the season. On 16 October 2019, he was hired by

club

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. After leading the club to a spot in the promotion playoffs, then lost to

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, he was sacked on 7 July 2020. On 2 September 2020 he was announced as the new head coach of

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, following the club's readmission to Serie C, a position he left just a few weeks later on 28 September. On 3 November 2020, he was announced as

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's replacement at the helm of

Potenza Potenza (, also , ; , Potentino dialect: ''Putenz'') is a ''comune'' in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata (former Lucania). Capital of the Province of Potenza and the Basilicata region, the city is the highest regional capital and one ...

, marking his return in charge of the club after ten years. He was sacked on 4 February 2021 following a string of negative results that left Potenza in the relegation playoff zone. On 11 October 2021, Capuano took over as the new head coach of Serie C club

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, replacing

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. He was however sacked only two months later, on 15 December, due to negative results. On 12 September 2022, Capuano took on at Serie C club

, replacing

Nello Di Costanzo Cuono "Nello" Di Costanzo (born 26 July 1961) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a forward, last in charge of Taranto. Career Playing A striker, he played in the youth ranks of AC Milan and Napoli, winning also a ...

References

External links

Capuano's coaching career
{{DEFAULTSORT:Capuano, Ezio 1965 births Living people People from Salerno Italian football managers S.S. Juve Stabia managers Modena F.C. managers Potenza S.C. managers A.C.R. Messina managers Italian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Belgium A.S. Sambenedettese managers Serie C managers Sportspeople from the Province of Salerno