Claudio Foscarini
Claudio Foscarini ( born November 19, 1958 in Riese Pio X ) is a retired Italian footballer and current coach.
As Active he played for the teams of the FBC Treviso, Atalanta Bergamo and Piacenza Calcio. As a coach, Foscarini coaching among other Alzano Virescit, the AC Rimini 1912 and currently since 2005 the AS Cittadella.
Playing career
Claudio Foscarini was born on November 19, 1958 in Riese Pio X in Veneto. He learned to play football in the youth divisions of Calcio Montebelluna, where he spent a little later the first four years of his career as an adult player. In Montebelluna Foscarini, who acted in the position of a midfielder, was active from 1975 to 1979 and contested in this period a total of 79 league games with four goals for the club. Then Foscarini went for two years to regional mean their club FBC Treviso to find that time in the third-tier Serie C1. In Treviso the midfielder made within two years from 1979 to 1981 60 league games with five Torerfolgen and always reached midfield placings in Serie C1.
From 1981 to 1984 Claudio Foscarini was then at Atalanta Bergamo under contract. The traditional club had fallen deeply and found himself at the beginning of Foscarini's activity only in the third- highest division again. But in the three years spent Claudio Foscarini as a player at Atalanta, the club experienced a steep climb and the associated return to the A. Series After the third league championship in 1982 could B establish themselves in the series, finishing as promoted a eighth place in the table. The following year, the team of coach Nedo Sonetti then landed the top spot in the second division, one point ahead of Como Calcio. To return to the highest Italian league was perfect. However, Claudio Foscarini was at this time only a substitute, came in the promotion season in just four games for use and left Atalanta Bergamo then also during the 1983 season / 84th The rest of the season, he was then briefly at the SSC Campania under contract, only to find himself in the following summer to get involved for two years at Piacenza Calcio. In Piacenza Foscarini made 60 league games, scoring three goals and changed in the summer of 1986 to Virescit Boccaleone. There Claudio Foscarini played another five years to 1991, before he ended his active career as a football player at the age of 33 years.
Coaching career
After the end of his active career as a football player Claudio Foscarini was coach. In this role, he worked from 1991 to 1993 during his last club as a player, Virescit Bergamo, as a youth coach. 1993 to 1994 and 1994 to 1995, he was then the head coach of two amateur clubs from the region around Bergamo. In 1995 he returned to the youth departments of the now to Alzano Virescit merged associations and worked there for two years. In 1997, Foscarini then the coach of the first team of Alzano Virescit and made in his four-year term of office for some sensation with the club. In his second season at Alzano Virescit Claudio Foscarini led his team with a first place in the Girone A Serie C1 with five points ahead of Como Calcio surprisingly for the first time ever in the club's history in the B. Series In Series B 1998/99 but could Alzano Virescit this success story does not continue and only managed two teams of AC Savoia 1908 and to let the U.S. Fermana behind what had direct re destitution. As relegated Alzano Virescit played in Serie C1 a disastrous season and had to play- play fight against relegation. There, they lost the AC Reggiana and had to join the in the Viertklassigkeit. Claudio Foscarini was delivered during the season of his duties.
After Foscarini had cared 2001-2002 Rimini Calcio in the fourth division, he moved in 2003 to AS Cittadella, similar Alzano Virescit in the nineties an aspiring club from the north of Italy. After two years as a youth coach in Cittadella Foscarini took over in the summer of 2005, the Office of the coach of the first team of Rolando Maran. After Cittadella had already spent 2000 to 2002 two years in Serie B, Claudio Foscarini led the club with a third place in the Serie C1 Girone A 2007/ 08 and subsequently won playoff games against the U.S. Cremonese back into the second division. There were abolished in 2008/ 09 as a climber with space seventeen just as in the league, just one year later to play so far most successful season in the club's history. A sixth place in Serie B 2009/10 enabled the AS Cittadella participation in the play-offs for promotion to the Serie A. Unhappy you failed here, however, in the semifinals at Brescia Calcio. After it was after return game draw, Brescia came only because of better placement in the regular table on. In the years after Cittadella ending up back such strong positions, the club leveled off in the lower middle of the B series. Still, it managed to Claudio Foscarini to establish the provincial club in the second division. In the 2013/14 season Foscarini is also in his ninth season at AS Cittadella the longest-serving coach in the Italian professional football.
Achievements
As a player
- English- Italian Cup: 1x
- Series B: 1x
- Serie C1: 1x
As a coach
- Promotion to Serie B: 2x