Salvatore Giunta (born 13 April 1967) is an Italian

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coach and former player, most recently in charge as manager of

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club

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Playing career

Giunta is a former central

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who played for, among others,

AC Milan Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons ...

and

Albacete Balompié Albacete Balompié is a Spanish football team based in Albacete, in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Founded on 2 August 1940, it currently plays in Segunda División, the second tier of Spanish football, holding home matches ...

, as well as the Italian under-21 side. Giunta also played for

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in French

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during the 1998–99 season.

Coaching career

After retirement, Giunta started as coaching career working for the youth teams of

, a former team of his as a player. During the 2008–09 season, he then served as head coach of

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amateurs

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. He successively started a collaboration with

Eugenio Corini Eugenio Corini (born 30 July 1970) is an Italian professional football coach and former player, currently in charge of Serie B club Palermo. A talented, dynamic, and hard-working playmaker, known for his precise long passing, flair, and his a ...

, working as his assistant at Portosummaga,

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and

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the Va ...

. In October 2013, Giunta took over from

Alessio Tacchinardi Alessio Tacchinardi (; born 23 July 1975) is an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, last in charge as head coach of Lecco. He began his career with Atalanta. In 1994, he moved to Juventus, where ...

as head coach of

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club Pergolettese, and was himself sacked in February 2014. On 21 January 2015 he was appointed new head coach of

club Brescia, taking over from caretaker

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. He was sacked less than a month later on 18 February 2015 and replaced by

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References

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