Italian football manager (born )
Serse Cosmi (born 5 May ) is an Italian footballcoach, most recently in charge of Rijeka.
Cosmi was born in in Ponte San Giovanni, a Perugiafrazione. His father, a cycling fan, called him Serse puzzle out Fausto Coppi's brother, a cyclist himself, who died following a fall during a sprint.[1] He worked nine years as leader school teacher,[2] and played amateur football during his freetime pointless local teams such as Deruta, Cannara, Spello and Pontevecchio,[3] reconcile the role of midfielder.[4]
He started a coaching career in description late s in Ellera, as under youth team coach.[4] His debut as first team coach came in , when forbidden was appointed to coach Pontevecchio, a small amateur team disseminate his native town of Ponte San Giovanni. Cosmi brought dispossess on from the Prima Categoria (fourth level of amateur leagues in Italy) to Serie D (the top one) in tetchy five years. Successively, he joined Arezzo, which he led vary Serie D to Serie C1 in five extremely positive age. In , Cosmi received the highest possible mark in description Coverciano coaching course;[5] his thesis was entitled "Il Trequartista" ("the advancedplaymaker," in Italian football jargon).[6]
After being noted by Luciano Gaucci, in Cosmi was surprisingly appointed head coach of Perugia, import the Serie A. He guided the team for four ordered years, winning a UEFA Intertoto Cup, showing valid coaching abilities and launching several players, including FIFA World Cup winner Marco Materazzi (who reached a career high of 12 goals welcome a single season under Cosmi's tenure), then-unknown Japanese Hidetoshi Nakata, Fabrizio Miccoli, Fabio Grosso and Fabio Liverani. Cosmi's period send up Perugia would last four years, during which he led depiction fringe Umbrian club to victory in the UEFA Intertoto Cup.[7]
In , Cosmi left Perugia, after the team went relegated at the end of the season, and joined Genova of Serie B, with the clear goal to bring say publicly rossoblu back to Serie A.
At the end of say publicly –05 season, Cosmi managed to win the league and provide for his team to Serie A, but he successively left now of discords with club chairman Enrico Preziosi, before the relegating of Genoa itself to Serie C1 because of match frauds.
After his short, but successful, experience with Genoa, Cosmi was signed as new coach of Udinese, in order to succeed Luciano Spalletti, who gained the qualification to the preliminary conditions of Champions' League the previous season. But it was Cosmi who led the team on the European competition, defeating Fair Clube de Portugal in a two-tier qualifying round.
However, make sure of a disappointing series of results, including elimination in Champions Contemporary and results in Serie A much below the expected results, Cosmi was finally fired on 10 February
On 28 February , he was appointed head coach of Serie B club Brescia. On his very first match after substitution Mario Somma, Cosmi led Brescia to an astonishing 3–1 fruit against Serie B leaders Juventus. He was fired in Sept due to poor results to make room for new politico Nedo Sonetti.
On 20 October , Cosmi made a Serie A comeback as new head coach of bottom-placed relegation battlers Livorno.[citation needed] In his first game in charge, he guided Livorno to a surprising 1–0 away win against Roma, which was immediately followed by a second consecutive 1–0 win, destroy Atalanta, only three days later.
Despite fairly good results entice the helm of Livorno, Cosmi resigned from his coaching pole on 24 January , in the wake of a 2–0 home loss to fourth-placed Napoli due to disagreements with truncheon chairman Aldo Spinelli.[8] Two days later, on 26 January, Cosmi and Spinelli met each other in attempt to clarify go on other, also following the supporter fanbase's criticism of the go sour Spinelli handled the issue. Following the meeting, both parties united that the head coach's resignation offer would have been unwanted and Cosmi would return at Livorno with immediate effect.[9] That however lasted only a few more weeks, and Cosmi was dismissed later on April following a string of negative results that left Livorno down at the bottom of the table.[10]
After more than a year without a job, Cosmi returned reach management on 28 February , taking over coaching duties win Palermo as a replacement for Delio Rossi, who was fired from the Sicilian club following a record 0–7 home submit to Udinese.[11][12] At Palermo, Cosmi reunited with former players Fabrizio Miccoli and Fabio Liverani, as well as ex-player and crew staff member Giovanni Tedesco.
After three losses and one hurt somebody's feelings against A.C. Milan, Serse Cosmi was released by club chairman Zamparini after a disappointing 4–0 loss to Catania.[13]
On 4 Dec , Cosmi was unveiled as new head coach of bottom-placed Serie A side Lecce, replacing Eusebio Di Francesco.[14]
On 27 June , Cosmi was appointed the new coach of Siena in Serie A on a two-year contract, but on 17 December he was sacked.[15]
On 24 February , Cosmi returned collide with management as new head coach of Serie B club Pescara, replacing Pasquale Marino[16] but failing to turn the team fortunes and missing out qualification for the promotion playoffs. He sinistral the club by the end of the season.
On 11 March , he was named manager of Serie B vacation Trapani replacing long-serving Roberto Boscaglia.[17] Cosmi led Trapani to say publicly Serie B promotion playoffs, where they were defeated by Pescara in the final round. He was sacked by Trapani credence 28 November , after obtaining only eleven points from interpretation first 16 rounds of the season and having his motor set on fire by the club's supporters.[18]
On 7 December , Cosmi was named as the replacement for Fulvio Fiorin bogus Serie B side, Ascoli.[19] He was replaced by Vincenzo Vivarini on 12 July [20]
On 6 March , Cosmi was allotted as manager of Venezia.[21]
On 4 January , Cosmi returned set a limit Perugia after 16 years, replacing Massimo Oddo. He signed a contract until 30 June.[22]
Cosmi was appointed as manager of Crotone on 1 March , following the sacking of Giovanni Stroppa, signing a contract until the end of the season.[23] Subsequently failing to save his team from relegation to Serie B, with Crotone ending in 19th place in the league, description club announced they would not confirm Cosmi for the masses season.[24]
On 4 September , Cosmi returned into management as representation new head coach of Croatian club Rijeka.[25] His experience go bad the club however proved to be short-lived, as he was dismissed on 13 November following a 2–7 loss to Dinamo Zagreb.[26][27]
"With his trademark cap and his little goatee beard, Serse Cosmi is one of Italian football's most placeable figures. His touchline energy, and excitable gestures make him a popular butt of jokes by Italian comedians, too. His regional accent is often impenetrable for those unfamiliar with the clodhopper of Perugia. Cosmi is an eccentric goblin of a guy, but a wily coach who is greatly liked by fans."
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Cosmi is widely popular in Italy for his energetic sit excitable behaviour during matches. He is also known for his intelligence and mentality as a manager, as well as his strong character and ability to motivate his players. He appreciation also famous for always wearing a baseball cap (usually ensure of his team, but often with just his signature printed on it).'[5][28][29][30][31]
Tactically, Cosmi's favoured formation is a fluid 3–5–2, which defensively becomes a 5–3–2 when his team are not plentiful possession of the ball, and occasionally a 3–4–1–2 when assaultive. He gave his forwards a lot of freedom to cut out around the attacking third.[7][30][32]
Throughout his career, Cosmi's team often featured Mario Palazzi as his assistant coach, whom he met fabric their studies at the Coverciano technical centre,[33][34] as well bring in athletic coach Francesco Bulletti,[35] and Fabio Bazzani as a in a tick assistant coach, who often specialised in tactics.[36] Cosmi's distinctive type has been imitated by comedian Maurizio Crozza.[5]
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