Roberto Stellone

Roberto Stellone (born 22 July 1977) is an Italian football manager and former football player who is the current manager of Frosinone.

Club career

Early career

Son of former footballer Gaetano Stellone, Roberto Stellone starter his career at hometown club Lodigiani, where he met David Di Michele his team-mate at Reggina and Torino. After 4 seasons at Serie C1, he left for Lucchese of Serie B in mid-1997. In summer 1998 he left for Parma, but he had limited chance and left for Lecce of Serie B on loan in January 1999. He scored 6 goals in 19 League matches, won Serie A promotion with Lecce made himself received call-up to Italy U21 team.

Napoli

In summer 1999, he left for S.S.C. Napoli of Serie B in co-ownership agreement. He added 10 goals to his Serie B account, which also helped Napoli promoted back to Serie A by finished 4th. Napoli bought the remain registration rights, made him stay at the port city. But Stellone has a limited 3 experience due to injury^[1] in his first Serie A season and until 2001–02 season Napoli back to play at Serie B. In his last seasons with Napoli, he scored 19 goals in 51 Serie B matches. He missed part of the matches due to injury.^[2] Facing financial difficulties, Napoli loaned Stellone to Reggina of Serie A in 2003–04 season. With present of David Di Michele and Emiliano Bonazzoli, Stellone scored once in 16 league appearances.

In the next season, he left for Genoa of Serie B. He partnered with Diego Milito and Stephen Makinwa, scored over 70% of team total goals. Although the team won the champions, but due to Caso Genoa, the team was awarded last place and relegated.

Torino

Stellone was signed by Serie B runner-up Torino in co-ownership deal in August 2005, which forced to remain at Serie B due to financial difficulty. Now partnered with Enrico Fantini and Roberto Muzzi, Stellone failed to score easily like at Geona, but Torino still bought him outright by priced higher bid in blind envelope against Genoa, which Genoa also like to sign player for their Serie B campaign. Despite low efficiency of the striker, Torino still qualified to Serie A that season. With Torino at Serie A, he started to swing from a regular and a substitute. Although Stellone and other strikers also failed to score, with help of Alessandro Rosina and defensive line, the team still avoided releagted back to Serie B. In the next season, with the signing of David Di Michele, Nicola Ventola and Álvaro Recoba, he just played 18 starts with 4 goals. In his last season, the 31-year-old forward faced competition from Rolando Bianchi and Nicola Amoruso, with the formation change to use 1 strikers (Bianchi), Stellone played half of the appearances as substitute. With the left of Alessandro Rosina in January 2009, made the team more difficult to score, Torino failed to stay at Serie A in the last round.

Frosinone

After the relegation of Torino in 2009 he became free agent in June. After months without a club, he signed a 3-year contract with Serie B club Frosinone in November 2009 where he found Francesco Moriero as coach.^[3] In the 2009-10 season his goals contributed to the salvation of Ciociari: following the relegation of the team in Lega Pro the following year, on 28 June 2011, he announced his retirement from football.

Style of play

A complete striker, he could act either as striker or second striker: his main qualities were his technique, dribbling and heading ability.

Managerial career

After his retirement, he stayed at Frosinone as a youth coach in charge of the under-19 team (Berretti) for the 2011–12 season. Under his tenure, the team won the national Berretti title.

Thanks also to his impressive results with the youth team, Stellone was appointed as Frosinone head coach role for the season 2012–13 in Lega Pro Prima Divisione. In his first season in charge, Stellone guided the team to seventh place and was confirmed for one more year.

In the 2013–14 Lega Pro Prima Divisione, Stellone's Frosinone immediately emerged as one of the promotion favourites, losing direct promotion only on the last matchday to Perugia. In the subsequent playoff tournament, however, Frosinone managed to achieve the ultimate goal of getting back into Serie B, defeating Salernitana in the first round, Pisa in the semi-finals and, most notably, a Fabrizio Miccoli-led Lecce in a two-legged final after extra time.

On 16 May 2015 he led Frosinone to second place in Serie B and direct promotion to Serie A with a game to spare, with victory against Crotone 3-1.^[4]

Career statistics

Manager

As of 13 February 2016

Season	Team	Place	Domestic league					Domestic cup					European competition					Other tournaments					Total
			Comp	G	W	D	L	Comp	G	W	D	L	Comp	G	W	D	L	Comp	G	W	D	L	G	W	D	L
2012–13	Frosinone	7th	1D	30	10	11	9	CI	2	1	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	11	11	10
2013–14		2nd	1D	32	18	8	6	CI	4	3	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	36	21	8	7
2014–15		2nd	B	42	20	11	11	CI	1	0	1[5]	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	37	16	11	10
2015–16		19th (current)	A	24	6	3	15	CI	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	6	4	15
Total Frosinone				129	54	34	41		8	4	2	2		-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	137	58	36	43
Total career				129	54	34	41		8	4	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	137	58	36	43

Honours

Individual

• Albo Panchina d'Oro: 2013–14 Lega Pro^[6]

References

External links

• Profile at FIGC (Italian)
• Profile at Football.it (Italian)
• Profile at Torino (Italian)
• Profile at La Gazzetta dello Sport (Italian)