Antonio Buscè (born 12 December 1975) is an Italian professional

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coach and a former

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who is the manager of club

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Playing career

Born in

Gragnano Gragnano is a hill town and (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in southern Italian region of Campania. It is located about southeast of Naples, between a mountain crest and the Amalfi Coast. Gragnano borders the following munic ...

, Buscè started his career at hometown club Sant'Aniello, then playing at a number of minor league clubs before joining

Empoli Empoli () is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy, about southwest of Florence, to the south of the Arno River, Arno in a plain formed by the river. The plain has been usable for agriculture since Ancient Ro ...

(then at

Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

) in 2002, and playing till 2009 for the Tuscanians. He ended his career in 2013 after a season with

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Coaching career

In 2013, Buscè returned to Empoli as a youth coach. Later in 2019, he was promoted to responsible for the Primavera Under-19 team, extending his contract in 2021. He successively took on a head coaching career, guiding

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club Vibonese on the course of the 2023–24 season. He then departed from Vibonese to accept the head coaching job of

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club

. With Rimini, he won the

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title in 2025, defeating

Giana Erminio Associazione Sportiva Giana Erminio S.r.l. is an Italian football club based in Gorgonzola, Lombardy. The team currently plays in Italy's . History The club was founded in 1909 as ''Unione Sportiva Argentia'', and later adopted the current name ...

in a two-legged final.

Honours

Manager

;Rimini *

: 2024–25

References

External links

Profile at Lega-Calcio.it
Living people 1975 births Italian men's footballers Footballers from the Metropolitan City of Naples Men's association football midfielders Serie A players Serie B players AS Reggina 1914 players Empoli FC players Calcio Padova players Ravenna FC players Bologna FC 1909 players Pisa SC players Italian football managers Rimini FC 1912 managers Serie C managers 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub