Gian Piero Ventura leaves football, he will no longer be a coach. The 73-year-old coach announced his decision: “I'm going to stop, I don't want to talk about football anymore. Years go by and I want to enjoy life. After 37 years of football, with a lot of satisfaction and some negative moments, I think it is my right to get back to life ”.

Specialized in promotions, he took Lecce from C to A in two years and also brought Cagliari back to the top flight in 1998.

The best in Serie A was offered to Bari, taking him to tenth place with the record of 50 points, and to Turin. He brought the grenades to Europe.

Unfortunately for him he will be remembered for the bad experience in the national team, which under his leadership for the first time in 60 years was excluded from the final phase of the World Cup. In 2019/20 his latest adventure on the Salernitana bench.

He was in rossoblù from '97 to '99. “Thanks for the years spent together, mister!”, Tommaso Giulini's club wrote on Twitter.

(Unioneonline / L)

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