Pasquale Marino

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Pasquale Marino
Personal information
Full name Pasquale Marino
Date of birth July 13, 1962 (1962-07-13) (age 45)
Place of birth    Marsala, Italy
Playing position Head coach (former midfielder)
Youth clubs
Marsala
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
 ?-1984
1984-1986
1986-1989
1989-1992
1992-1993
1993-1994
1994-1997
Marsala
Akragas
Siracusa
Battipagliese
Potenza
Messina
Catania
   
Teams managed
1997-1999
1999-2000
2000-2002
2002-2004
2004-2005
2005-2007
2007-
Milazzo
Ragusa
Paternò
Foggia
Arezzo
Catania
Udinese

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Pasquale Marino (born July 13, 1962 in Marsala) is an Italian football coach.

In his playing career, started for his home team, Marsala, Marino never played in divisions higher than Serie C1, and ended his career for Catania in 1996/1997. His coaching career begun in 1997/1998 for Serie D team Milazzo, where he nearly won the league at his debut, ending in second place. However, his outbreak came at Paternò, which he led on two consecutive promotions from Serie D to Serie C1. He then signed for Serie C2 Foggia, which he led to an immediate Serie C1 promotion. He made his Serie B debut in 2004/2005 with Arezzo, replacing Mario Somma. Fired in the half-season and replaced by Marco Tardelli, he was successively recalled at the helm of the team, ending in a fourteenth place.

Since 2005, he is coach of Calcio Catania: in his first season for the rossoblu, Marino brought the team back to Serie A after over 20 years. He also coached Catania in its 2006-07 Serie A campaign: after a very impressive start that brought Catania up to the highest table positions, Catania experienced a negative streak following the riots in the Sicilian derby which caused the death of a policeman and resulted in the Catania home stadium to be disqualified for the remainder of the season. After Catania saved in the last matchday thanks to a 2-1 win to relegation rivals Chievo, Marino announced he was going to leave his post. He later signed a 4-year contract with Udinese.

Pasquale Marino is considered amongst the most interesting young Italian football managers: notably, he is widely known for his attacking 3-4-3 (or 4-3-3) style, which reminds to Zdenek Zeman's.