Vincenzo Torrente
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 12 February 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Cetara,Salerno,Italy | ||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1982–1985 | Nocerina | 9 | (0) |
| 1985–2000 | Genoa | 412 | (5) |
| 2000–2001 | Alessandria | 21 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2002 | Genoa(caretaker) | ||
| 2009–2011 | Gubbio | ||
| 2011–2013 | Bari | ||
| 2013–2014 | Cremonese | ||
| 2015–2016 | Salernitana | ||
| 2017 | Vicenza | ||
| 2018–2019 | Sicula Leonzio | ||
| 2019–2022 | Gubbio | ||
| 2022–2024 | Padova | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Vincenzo Torrente(born 12 February 1966) is an Italianfootballcoach and formerdefender.
Playing career
[edit]After starting his career at minor league clubNocerina,Torrente joinedGenoaat the age of 19. He quickly became a mainstay for the club, spending 15 consecutive seasons with theRossobluat both Serie A and Serie B levels, also playing at the European level during theOsvaldo Bagnoliperiod in the early 1990s. He left Genoa in 2000 after collecting more than 400 games with the club to joinAlessandria,where he ended his career in 2011 at the age of 35.
Coaching career
[edit]After retirement, Torrente became a coach and promptly returned to Genoa, heading theAllievi Nazionali(under-17 youth squad). Later in 2002, he was appointed as caretaker coach together withRino Lavezziniin what turned out to be a troublesome season that ultimately ended in relegation (then annulled due to the so-calledCaso Catania) for the club. He then returned to working as a youth coach for Genoa until 2009, when his former bossLuigi Simonioffered him a head coaching post atLega Pro Seconda DivisioneclubGubbio.Under his two-year tenure, Gubbio achieved a surprising feat of two consecutive promotions, thus reachingSerie Bin June 2011 as league champions. In June 2011, he left Gubbio to become the new head coach atBari,again at the Serie B level.[1]
On 13 December 2018, he signed withSerie CclubSicula Leonzio.[2]He left Sicula Leonzio at the end of the 2018–19 season.
On 16 October 2019, he returned to the club he had the most success with,Gubbio,now in theSerie C.[3]After three positive seasons in charge of Gubbio, on 17 June 2022 the club terminated Torrente's contract.[4]
On 13 December 2022, Torrente was hired as the new head coach of Serie C clubPadova.[5]He was dismissed on 8 April 2024 after failing to win automatic promotion with his club for two consecutive seasons, withMassimo Oddobeing appointed to replace him for the playoff phase.[6]
References
[edit]- ^"As Bari - Torrente: un anno di contratto"(in Italian).A.S. Bari.9 June 2011. Archived fromthe originalon 9 November 2013.Retrieved16 June2011.
- ^"Vincenzo Torrente è il nuovo allenatore della Sicula Leonzio"[Vincenzo Torrente is the new coach of Sicula Leonzio] (in Italian).Sicula Leonzio.13 December 2018.
- ^"BENVENUTO MISTER TORRENTE"(Press release) (in Italian).Gubbio.16 October 2019.
- ^"Esonerato il tecnico Torrente: il comunicato della società"(in Italian).A.S. Gubbio 1910.17 June 2022.Retrieved18 June2022.
- ^"Padova, raggiunto l'accordo con Torrente. È lui il nuovo mister biancoscudato"(in Italian). TuttoMercatoWeb. 13 December 2022.Retrieved13 December2022.
- ^"Padova, esonerato mister Torrente, Massimo Oddo è il nuovo nuovo allenatore per i play off"(in Italian). Il Gazzettino. 8 April 2024.Retrieved9 April2024.
External links
[edit]- Vincenzo Torrente coach profileat Soccerway
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Footballers from the Province of Salerno
- Italian men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- ASG Nocerina players
- Genoa CFC players
- US Alessandria Calcio 1912 players
- Italian football managers
- Genoa CFC managers
- SSC Bari managers
- US Cremonese managers
- Calcio Padova managers
- Serie B managers
- Serie C managers