Saturday, June 20, 2009

Luciano Bruni Is The New Primavera Coach


The Primavera turns over a new leaf. Following the promotion of Massimiliano Maddaloni to deputy-coach of the first team, as from today the main team of the youth nursery has a new coach. It is Luciano Bruni, a coach of immense experience at youth level.

Born in Livorno on the 24th of December 1960, Bruni has a long sports curriculum both as player and as coach.

Brought up in the Fiorentina youth sector (with whom he won the Viareggio Tournament), he began his carreer in the Serie A with the viola for which he played till 1981. After two seasons in the Serie B with Pistoiese and Reggiana he was transferred to Verona contributing to the historical 1984/85 scudetto. At the end of the 1980s he returned to Tuscany where he spent his last seasons playing for Lucchese, Siena, Arezzo and Castelfiorentino.

In 1997 he began his career as coach at the Scuola Calcio Firenze Sud.. A year later he was transferred to Fiorentina where he took a new path which brought him to coach in various categories: Esordienti, Allievi Nazionali and Primavera. After a short parenthesis as coach of the Rondinella first team in Serie D, he returned to working with youths, spending one season as coach of the Siena Primavera and then of Piacenza. Last season he was the deputy of Remondina at Hellas Verona which ended the season in seventh place of the Lega Pro 1 A (former C1 Girone A).

As from today, Bruni has become part of the Juventus youth sector where he once again meets Renzo Castagnini (with whom he had shared the Piacenza experience) and meets Gianluca Pessotto for the first time. With the latter he has a past at Verona in common even though during different seasons.

"Coaching the Juventus Primavera is of great satisfaction – he declared on Juventus Channel – and for this reason I thank the directors who chose me. I managed to speak to Castagnini and Pessotto and we were immediately on the same wavelength on the programme to adopt". The Primavera will return to work during the training camp In Chiusa Pesio.

Juventus.com

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