Sergio Buso (3 April 1950 – 24 December 2011) was an Italian football coach and

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Playing career

Buso started his professional career with hometown club

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, then moving to

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, 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 1 ...

in 1972. During his three years at Bologna, Buso also played the UEFA Cup Winners Cup and the

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, and won a

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in 1974. He successively played with several other teams such as Cagliari,

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and Pisa, before to retire in 1986 after a single season with Lucchese.

Coaching career

After his retirement, Buso decided to stay at Lucchese as assistant coach. In 1989, he joined

as youth coach, and filled the same role at Modena between 1990 and 1993. In 1993–94 he then took his first role as head coach at

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. After a short stint as Foggia assistant, Buso became assistant/youth team coach at his former club

, a role he filled since 1995. In 1999, he was promoted as caretaker head coach of the then-Serie A club, replacing

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until the appointment of new permanent boss

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. During this period he was defined as "

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of football" by then-chairman Giuseppe Gazzoni Frascara because of his extensive competence. He then left Bologna in 2000 to accept an offer from Serie C2 club

, leading his side to direct promotion by the end of the season. In 2001, he left Taranto to become new goalkeeping coach at

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under Cesare Prandelli. He then became Franco Colomba's assistant at

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the following season, following him at

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one year later. In 2004, he was appointed goalkeeping coach of newly promoted Serie A club

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, a role he left after a few weeks to become new head coach after the resignation of

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. His stint as Fiorentina boss turned out to the worse after a string of four consecutive defeats left the ''Viola'' in deep relegation zone, leading the board of directors to replace him with

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. He then tried his luck as head coach of Serie B club

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, being however dismissed after a few weeks due to poor results. In 2006, he accepted to serve as

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's assistant in the Italian national team, a role he took until 2008. He then re-joined Donadoni during his short-lived period as head coach of

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Death

Buso died on 24 December 2011, succumbing to a serious form of

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from which he had suffered for years.

Honours

Player

;Bologna *

: 1973–74

References

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