Maurizio Trombetta (born 29 September 1962) is an Italian

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manager and former player. He was head coach of Romanian

Liga I The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...

clubs

CFR Cluj Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ), is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, which competes in the Liga I. It was founded in 1907 as ''Kolozsvári Vas ...

and

Târgu Mureș Târgu Mureș (, ; hu, Marosvásárhely ) is the seat of Mureș County in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania. It is the List of cities and towns in Romania, 16th largest Romanian city, with 134,290 inhabitants as of the 2011 Romania ...

, and youth team coach at

Reggina Reggina 1914 S.r.l., commonly referred to as Reggina, is an Italian football club based in Reggio Calabria. Founded in 1914, they currently play in Serie B, and play their home matches at the 27,763 seater Stadio Oreste Granillo. They are n ...

Playing career

Trombetta was born in

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

. A minor league player who played

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only in his first two professional seasons, respectively with

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 fo ...

and

Catanzaro Catanzaro (, or ; scn, label= Catanzarese, Catanzaru ; , or , ''Katastaríoi Lokrói''; ; la, Catacium), also known as the "City of the two Seas", is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its p ...

, he also played from 1989 to 1991 in

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, 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 ...

with

Triestina Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to as Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Originally founded in 1918, the club has been re-established several times in its history. As of the ...

Coaching career

Following his retirement as a player, Trombetta became

's ''allievi'' (under-16) youth coach in 1994, being soon later appointed as

Giovanni Galeone Giovanni Galeone (born 25 January 1941) is an Italian football manager and former player. Playing career Galeone, born in Naples, moved to Northern Italy in his youth years, and played as a midfielder for Ponziana Trieste, Monza and Udinese, w ...

's assistant coach with the ''zebrette''. He then followed Galeone to

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and

Napoli Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

before to return at Udine, this time as

Francesco Guidolin Francesco Guidolin (; born 3 October 1955) is an Italian football manager and former player, most recently the manager of Premier League team Swansea City. He has coached various Italian club sides in Serie A, winning the 1996–97 Coppa Italia ...

's assistant coach. From 1999 to 2004 he then moved together with Guidolin at

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, working alongside him with the ''rossoblu''. In 2004, he returned to work alongside Galeone at

Ancona Ancona (, also , ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region in central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region. The city is located northeast of Rome, on the Adriatic S ...

, and followed his mentor when at Udinese in 2006–07. During the 2007–08 season, he chose to start a coaching career of his own, becoming head coach of amateur

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club Sevegliano after league Week 7, with the team being at the bottom of the league table, and led them to an impressive fourth place. In June 2008, he was appointed as new assistant coach of Romanian

outgoing champions

, and was successively promoted as head coach later on September as a replacement for dismissed boss

Ioan Andone Ioan Andone (; born 15 March 1960) is a Romanian football coach and former player. Club career Ioan Andone, nicknamed "Fălcosul" was born on 15 March 1960 in Șpălnaca and when he was 14 years old he played basketball and football simultane ...

. Under his tenure as CFR Cluj coach, the club is also competing for their first time ever in the

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

as Romanian champions; in his first game in the top European competition, which came only fifteen days after his appointment as head coach, Trombetta's team won 2–1 at

Stadio Olimpico The Stadio Olimpico (English: ''Olympic Stadium'') is the largest sports facility in Rome, Italy, seating over 70,000 spectators. It is located within the Foro Italico sports complex, north of the city. The structure is owned by the Italian Na ...

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thanks to two goals by

Emmanuel Culio Juan Emmanuel Culio (born 30 August 1983) is an Argentine former professional footballer. He is one of the most successful foreign players who had ever played in Liga I in Romania. In this regard, he had won 6 championships, all with CFR Cluj. ...

in a historical victory against the renowned ''giallorossi'' team, who were taking part to the UEFA Champions League as

runners-up. He was later dismissed in January 2009, after only four months in charge, leaving CFR Cluj in fourth place in the Liga I and only weeks after having been eliminated from the UEFA Champions League. In February 2010, he was announced by

as new head of the ''Primavera'' under-19 youth team, replacing

Roberto Breda Roberto Breda (born 21 October 1969) is an Italian football coach and former player. He was most recently the manager of Serie B club Pescara. Playing career A midfielder, Breda made his Serie A debut with Sampdoria and later played with sever ...

after he was promoted head coach days earlier. In November 2011, he returned to Romania, signing a contract for a season with

. He was released only after a couple of months.

Coaching statistics

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trombetta, Maurizio 1962 births Living people Footballers from Udine Italian men's footballers Italian football managers CFR Cluj managers ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș managers US Catanzaro 1929 players Udinese Calcio players US Triestina Calcio 1918 players SPAL players US Pistoiese 1921 players Expatriate football managers in Romania Men's association football fullbacks Juventus FC non-playing staff ASD Sevegliano managers