Cristiano Bergodi (born 14 October 1964) is an Italian professional

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and former player.

Club career

Born in

Bracciano Bracciano is a small town in the Italian region of Lazio, northwest of Rome. The town is famous for its volcanic lake (Lake Bracciano, Lago di Bracciano or "Sabatino", the eighth largest lake in Italy) and for a particularly well-preserved medie ...

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, Bergodi started to play at Pescara Calcio in the country's first division (

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) in 1987, for Pescara Calcio, playing with a total of eight seasons. He most notably played for

, where he spent seven seasons in the top flight, and retired in 2000 after a brief stint at Maltese club Sliema Wanderers.

Managerial career

After he retired, Bergodi started working as a coach. After a couple of minor league experiences in Italy, he moved into Romanian football, initially with National București, before achieving his first major successes as

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manager, winning the Romanian Supercup on 27 July 2007. He also coached

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team

CFR Cluj Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ) or simply CFR, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I. Founded as ''Kolozsvári Vasut ...

during the 2006–07 season, achieving a place in

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. On 6 October 2007, shortly after Rapid was eliminated from the UEFA Cup in first round, Bergodi resigned, declaring Rapid was "a club of amateurs". In January 2009, after a break, he signed a half year contract with an extension for another two years with Liga I club Politehnica Iași. In June 2009, after his short stint with Politehnica Iași he was appointed Steaua Bucharest's new manager. He replaced

Marius Lăcătuș Marius Mihai Lăcătuș (; born 5 April 1964) is a Romanian professional Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former player. He is the most successful footballer of CSA Steaua București (football), Steaua ...

. On 18 September 2009, Bergodi was sacked by

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for not allowing him to join the team in the locker at the half-time of the match between Steaua and Sheriff Tiraspol (0–0). Becali's decision attracted extremely negative critics from Steaua fans. In July 2010 he was presented as new head coach of Italian

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club

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. On 14 November 2011, he was sacked. On 26 February 2012, he was recalled by the same team as head coach. On 20 November 2012 he, already former player of

Pescara Pescara (; ; ) is the capital city of the province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo Regions of Italy, region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 118,657 (January 1, 2023) residents (and approximately 350,000 including the surround ...

for a total of eight seasons, was named new coach of same club, now in

en place of the resigned Giovanni Stroppa. He returned to Rapid București in April 2015. He tried to help them avoid relegation, but he was unable to do it. Between September and December 2015, he coached

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. He successively served as head coach of

in the Serie B league from March to June 2016, failing to save the club from relegation. On 8 November 2018, he returned to Romania and took control of Voluntari. He was sacked in January 2020. On 8 May 2020, he signed a one-year contract with Universitatea Craiova. On 8 October 2021, he took charge of Liga I club Sepsi OSK. He won the Cupa României in 2022, defeating defending champions, and former employers, CFR Cluj, in the final. Sepsi OSK also beat the same opposition to win the Supecupa României in 2022.

Career statistics

Managerial

Honours

Player

Pescara *

: 1986–87 Sliema Wanderers * Maltese Cup: 1999–2000

Coach

Național București *

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runner-up: 2005–06 Rapid București *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României () is a Romanian football (soccer), football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994 Supe ...

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Sepsi OSK *

: 2021–22, 2022–23 *

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Individual *''

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'' Romania Coach of the Month: May 2022, July 2022

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergodi, Cristiano 1964 births Living people People from Bracciano Men's association football defenders Italian men's footballers SS Lazio players Delfino Pescara 1936 players Calcio Padova players Sliema Wanderers F.C. players Serie A players Serie B players Maltese Premier League players Italian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Malta Italian expatriate sportspeople in Malta Italian football managers Italian expatriate football managers Imolese Calcio 1919 managers SS Lazio non-playing staff US Sassuolo Calcio managers FC Progresul București managers CFR Cluj managers FC Rapid București managers FCSB managers ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș managers Modena FC 2018 managers Delfino Pescara 1936 managers Brescia Calcio managers FC Voluntari managers CS Universitatea Craiova managers Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe managers Serie A managers Serie B managers Serie C managers Liga I managers Italian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate football managers in Romania Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital 20th-century Italian sportsmen