Antonio Giovanni Vincenzo Corbisiero (born 17 November 1984) is an English football manager and former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

. His last was job was as manager of

Cymru Premier The Cymru Premier, known as the JD Cymru Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the national football league of Wales. It has both professional and semi-professional status clubs and is at the top of the Welsh football league system. It was found ...

club Aberystwyth Town. He previously played professionally for

Swansea City Swansea City Association Football Club ( ; ) is a Welsh professional football club based in Swansea, Wales. It competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Swansea have played their home matches at ...

and semi-professionally for Newport County, Aberystwyth Town,

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and

Penrhyncoch Penrhyn-coch is a small village in the community of Trefeurig, Ceredigion, Wales, located between Afon Stewi and Nant Seilo rivers, close to where they merge into Afon Clarach. The village is approximately north-east of Aberystwyth. The vil ...

Career

Born in

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, Corbisiero, a right-footed midfielder of Irish-Italian parentage, began his career as a trainee with

, turning professional in August 2002. his league debut came on 30 August 2003 when he was a second-half substitute for

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in Swansea's 4–1 win at home to

Mansfield Town Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the third level of the English football league system. The club was formed in 1897 as Mans ...

. He played four more times that season, starting just one game, a 3–2 defeat at home to

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, although Corbisiero was replaced by Leyton Maxwell at half-time. He was an awarded a new one-year contract in June 2004, but failed to appear in the Swansea first team the following season and had two loan spells with Newport County (in December 2004 and April 2005) before being released in May 2005 by Swansea manager

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. He joined subsequently joined Newport County in August 2005, but was released in September 2005 and joined

the following month. In January 2013,

entered financial difficulties and Corbisiero was allowed to join Aberystwyth Town. Corbisiero signed a contract until July 2014. During the summer of 2013, Aberystwyth Town appointed Corbisiero as 'First Team Coach' in addition to his academy coaching duties. Corbisiero joined

Cymru Alliance The Cymru Alliance League (known for sponsorship reasons as Huws Gray Alliance) was a association football, football league in North Wales, north and Mid Wales, central Wales which formed the second level of the Welsh football league system. Fro ...

side

in 2016. Corbisiero retired from playing in 2020.

Coaching career

In June 2020, Corbisiero was appointed assistant manager at Aberystwyth Town. On 21 December 2020, Corbisiero was made interim manager of the club following Gavin Allen's departure, though this was reversed shortly after as Allen's position was reinstated. On 2 June 2021, Corbisiero was once again appointed manager after Gavin Allen's official departure. Following the conclusion of the 2021/22 Cymru Premier season and guiding the club to an 8th place finish, on the 12th May 2022 Corbisiero resigned from his role at the club as did his backroom staff; Gari Lewis, Bari Morgan, Stuart Jones and Dave Owen. On 12 November 2024, Corbisiero returned to Aberystwyth Town as First Team manager following the departure of Anthony Williams. He left the club in May 2025 after the relegation of the club from the Cymru Premier.

References

External sources

Welsh Premier League Profile for Antonio Corbisiero
{{DEFAULTSORT:Corbisiero, Antonio 1984 births Living people English men's footballers English people of Italian descent Italian British sportspeople Sportspeople of Italian descent Swansea City A.F.C. players Newport County A.F.C. players Cymru Premier players People from Exmouth English Football League players Aberystwyth Town F.C. players Llanelli Town A.F.C. players Men's association football midfielders Penrhyncoch F.C. players Footballers from Devon 21st-century English sportsmen