Pasquale Padalino

Pasquale Padalino
Personal information
Date of birth26 July 1972
Place of birthFoggia, Italy
Height1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing positionCentral defender
Club information
Current team
Foggia
Youth career
Foggia
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1988-1992Foggia62(1)
1992-1993Bologna18(0)
1993-1994Lecce30(3)
1994-1995Foggia28(0)
1995-2000Fiorentina107(8)
2000-2002Bologna15(0)
2001-2002Inter (loan)0(0)
2002-2004Como15(1)
National team
1996Italy1(0)
Teams managed
2005-2006Verona (assistant)
2007-2009Pisa (assistant)
2009-2010Nocerina
2012-Foggia
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 22, 2012.
† Appearances (Goals).

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

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

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