Eugenio Corini

Eugenio Corini

Personal information
Date of birth	(1970-07-30) 30 July 1970
Place of birth	Bagnolo Mella, Italy
Height
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1990	Brescia	77	(9)
1990–1992	Juventus	47	(2)
1992–1996	Sampdoria	24	(4)
1993–1994	→ Napoli	17	(0)
1994–1995	→ Brescia	24	(2)
1995–1996	→ Piacenza	32	(1)
1996–1998	Verona	46	(4)
1998–2003	Chievo	134	(27)
2003–2007	Palermo	124	(25)
2007–2009	Torino	44	(1)
Total		569	(75)
International career
1988–1992	Italy U21	29	(1)
Managerial career
2010	Portosummaga
2010–2011	Crotone
2011–2012	Frosinone
2012–2013	Chievo
2013–2014	Chievo
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eugenio Corini (born 30 July 1970) is an Italian association football coach and former player. He last coached Serie A club Chievo, a team he also captained as a player in the 1990s.

A talented, dynamic, and hard-working playmaker, he played as an attacking midfielder, specialising in free kicks, corners, penalty kicks and long passes.

Career

Club career

Corini started his career in the Brescia youth squad, but he soon joined the first team, being called to be part it of when just 16 years old, making his debut the following season. He became a regular for the Lombardian team in both 1988–89 and 1989–90 seasons, before being noticed and signed by Juventus.

In his first season with Juventus, at just 20 years old, Corini played 25 times and scored one goal.

In 1992–93, Corini was sold to Sampdoria, where he made 24 appearances, and had several injury problems. In the next few years, Corini moved from team to team almost every season (Napoli, Brescia again, and Piacenza) without being able to show his full potential.

In October 1998, Verona loaned him to city rivals Chievo Verona, in Serie B. Corini soon became a mainstay of the team, being named captain and leading his team to an extraordinary promotion to Serie A in 2001, and UEFA Cup qualification the following season, after having been first-placed at the winter break.

Corini joined Palermo in 2003, helping the Sicilian team win the 2003–04 Serie B league title, followed by UEFA Cup qualification the following season. In June 2007, he announced he was not going to renew his contract with Palermo, and a few days later he was signed by Torino, aged 37. He was confirmed with the granata also for the 2008–09 season, which he stated it would be his final one as a footballer. On May 2009 Corini confirmed his retirement as a player, after he failed to recover from a recurring Achilles tendon injury which forced him to have surgery, which caused him to miss the final part of the season which saw Torino being relegated to Serie B. He also stated his intention to try himself as a head coach in the next future.

Statistics

Reference: La Gazzetta dello Sport

Club performance			League		Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Italy			League		Coppa Italia		Total
1986–87	Brescia	Serie A	0	0
1987–88		Serie B	14	0
1988–89			29	0
1989–90			34	9
1990–91	Juventus	Serie A	25	1
1991–92			22	1
1992–93	Sampdoria	Serie A	24	4
1993–94	Napoli	Serie A	14	0
1994–95			3	0
1994–95	Brescia	Serie A	24	2
1995–96	Piacenza	Serie A	32	1
1996–97	Hellas Verona	Serie A	9	1
1997-98		Serie B	35	3
1998–99			2	0
1998–99	ChievoVerona	Serie B	7	0
1999–00			31	6
2000–01			36	7
2001–02		Serie A	30	9
2002–03			30	5
2003–04	Città di Palermo	Serie B	40	12
2004–05		Serie A	33	0
2005–06			24	3
2006–07			27	10
2007–08	Torino	Serie A	32	1
2008–09			12	0
Total	Italy		569	75
Career total			569	75

International career

Corini became a regular also in the Italy national under-21 football team squad of the early 1990s, winning a UEFA European Under-21 Championship, and representing Italy in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona.

Despite his success for Italy at the youth levels and for various teams at club level, he has never been capped for the full national team in a career spanning almost two decades. However, he did receive call-ups during the 1992–93 season, and more recently on November 2002.

Coaching career

After announcing his retirement, Corini confirmed his interest in becoming a coach, being successively linked on a number of vacancies in the Italian football panorama. On 5 July 2010 Eugenio Corini was then unveiled as new head coach of Portosummaga, a newly promoted 2010–11 Serie B club; he agreed to become the club's new head coach despite not having the required coaching badges (he had only UEFA A qualifications at the time of the appointment), so it was agreed that UEFA Pro graduate Salvatore Giunta would work alongside him.

However, Corini unexpectedly left the club only twelve days later, together with director of football Giuseppe Magalini, due to disagreements with the board regarding the transfer market policy and the future plans for the team.

On 27 November 2010 he was appointed head coach of Serie B club Crotone, replacing Leonardo Menichini. His experience with the Calabrian club turned out to be short-lived, as he was dismissed later on 20 February 2011 following a string of poor results that left Crotone in danger of relegation.

From 30 November 2011 through the end of the season he coached Frosinone in Lega Pro Prima Divisione in place of the resigned Carlo Sabatini.

On 2 October 2012 he was named new head coach of Chievo in place of Domenico Di Carlo, after the team suffered five consecutive defeats in the first six games of the season. Corini and Chievo parted ways on 29 May 2013 by mutual consent; only for Corini to return to Chievo 4 months later, appointed on 12 November 2013 to replace Giuseppe Sannino. He guided Chievo to maintain Serie A status by the end of the season and was thus confirmed as head coach, but was successively sacked on 19 October following a 0–3 defeat to Roma that left his club with four points in seven games.

External links

• Player profile (from US Palermo official website)