Giuseppe Papadopulo

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Giuseppe Papadopulo
Personal information
Full name	Giuseppe Papadopulo
Date of birth	February 2, 1948 (age 59)
Place of birth	Casale Marittimo, Italy
Nickname	Il Papa
Club information
Current club	Lecce
Teams managed
1987-1988 1988-1989 1989-1991 1991-1992 1992-1994 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2004 2004-2005 Jan-Jun 2006 Dec 2006 - To Present	Sorrento Licata Monopoli Perugia Acireale Avellino Livorno Fidelis Andria Lucchese Cremonese Crotone Siena Lazio Palermo Lecce
* Appearances (Goals)

Giuseppe Papadopulo (born February 2, 1948 in Casale Marittimo, Pisa) is an Italian football manager.

A former footballer of S.S. Lazio, Papadopulo started his coaching career in 1984 with A.S. Cecina, a minor amateur team of Tuscany. Then, after two years as assistant coach for Casertana, he debuted at the professional level in 1987 for Sorrento. In 1989, he is coach of Licata, a small Sicilian Serie B team at the time.

After two other coaching experiences for Monopoli and Perugia, Papadopulo in 1993 drove Acireale to a surprising promotion to Series B. He then coached Avellino, Livorno, and led Fidelis Andria to another Series B promotion.

But, after two other short times with Lucchese and Crotone, Papadopulo finally had his luckiest success for A.C. Siena (2001-2004), leading the team from Serie C1 to its first Series A ever, and even maintaining the top division the next year.

During the 2004/2005 season, Papadopulo has been appointed as new coach of Lazio, replacing Domenico Caso; however, he left his managing position at the end of the season. On January 29, 2006, Papadopulo has been called back to Sicily in order to replace Luigi Del Neri at the helm of U.S. Città di Palermo, and debuted with a surprising 3-0 win against AC Milan for a match of Italian Cup. After a series of impressive results which led Palermo off the lower places in the standings, and despite a one-year renewal signed before the end of the season, Papadopulo was dismissed from the rosanero, in order to be replaced by Francesco Guidolin. On December 28, 2006 he became the new Lecce manager.

Papadopulo was nicknamed il Papa (The Pope) by Siena fans during his period in the team, that he led from Series C to the Italian top division.

U.S. Lecce - Current Squad
2 Tesser | 5 Diamoutene | 6 Ângelo | 7 Vives | 8 Polenghi | 9 Tulli | 10 Osvaldo | 11 Caccavallo | 14 Munari | 15 Cottafava | 16 Tundo | 17 Petrachi | 18 Giacomazzi | 19 Diarra | 20 Valdés | 22 Rosati | 23 Schiavi | 24 Camisa | 25 Herzán | 26 Arrieta | 27 Juliano | 28 Franceschini | 29 Mingozzi | 30 Triarico | 40 Giuliatto | 75 Zanchetta | 90 Tiribocchi | 99 Pavarini | Coach: Papadopulo