Giovanni Galeone has died. He was 84 years old and was considered a master of Italian football despite never having won any titles
Giovanni Galeone passed away at the age of 84a coach who leaves his mark on Italian football despite having ended his very long career without ever winning a trophy. He had been ill for some time and was hospitalized in Udine, one of his cities. Master of football made of imagination and fun, protagonist of the promotions of Pescara (1987 and 1992), Udinese and Perugia, friend and mentor of Max Allegri and always a voice against the grain in a world full of stereotypes.
Galeone was born in Naples on 25 January 1941 and left from there to seek his fortune as a footballer. He gave his best sitting on the bench, theorist of a 4-3-3 that was then cutting edge for the movement asked of the wingers, called to participate in the attacking phase to create modern football. He didn’t win anything but that didn’t make him any less loved. His rise as a coach was long and continuous: from the amateurs with Pordenone and Adriese up to Serie A, which he first met with Pescara at the end of the 1980s.
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Como, Udinese, Perugia, Naples and Ancona are the other cities that saw him in the front row after his apprenticeship in the minor leagues. It didn’t always go well, yet the fame of his way of interpreting football often preceded him. In January 2007 in Udine the last benches before the dismissal. Then he carved out the role of the great old man, suggestor of Allegri who always claimed the particular bond with the Maestro and precious interlocutor in the story of the events of football.
