Pasquale Padalino

Pasquale Padalino

Personal information
Date of birth	(1972-07-26) 26 July 1972
Place of birth	Foggia, Italy
Height
Position(s)	Central defender
Team information
Current team	Matera (Manager)
Youth career
	Foggia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1992	Foggia	62	(1)
1992–1993	Bologna	18	(0)
1993–1994	Lecce	30	(3)
1994–1995	Foggia	28	(0)
1995–2000	Fiorentina	107	(8)
2000–2002	Bologna	15	(0)
2001–2002	Inter (loan)	0	(0)
2002–2004	Como	15	(1)
International career
1996	Italy	1	(0)
Managerial career
2005–2006	Verona (assistant)
2007–2009	Pisa (assistant)
2009–2010	Nocerina
2012–2014	Foggia
2014–2015	Grosseto
2015–	Matera
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 January 2016

Pasquale Padalino (born 26 July 1972 in Foggia) is a former Italian football central defender and the current manager of Matera.

Career

Player

During his career, Padalino represented U.S. Foggia, Bologna F.C. 1909 (two stints), U.S. Lecce, ACF Fiorentina (where he formed an interesting defensive partnership with Lorenzo Amoruso, later of Rangers F.C.), Inter Milan (having only having appeared once, in an Italian Cup contest against Udinese Calcio) and Como Calcio 1907.

National

Padalino's only international cap came in 1996, in a friendly against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Coach

Having retired in 2004, Padalino started as assistant coach to cousin Giampiero Ventura at Hellas Verona, leaving at the end of the season to rejoin first team Foggia, as its administrative secretary.

In 2007-08, Padalino rejoined Ventura as second coach, now in Pisa Calcio, also in the second level.

In 2009-10, Padalino started his career as head coach at Nocerina in the Seconda Divisione until the end of the season.

On August 7, 2012 he was named new coach of Foggia in serie D.

Honors

Fiorentina

• Italian Cup: 1995-96, runner-up 1998-99
• Italian Supercup: 1996

External links

• Inter archive stats (Italian)
• Pasquale Padalino at Soccerway