Federico Giampaolo (born 3 March 1970) is an Italian former professional

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who played as a striker.

Playing career

Giampaolo was born in

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. Like his brother Marco, now a football coach, he started his career at

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. He played his first professional season in 1987–88, making 27

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appearances. He then joined

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youth team. After age of 20, he was loaned to

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and

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. In October 1993, he joined

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at Serie B. Still, in the next season, he joined Serie B rival

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, where he played another three Serie B seasons, including 1996–97 season which scored 16 goals. In the summer of 1997,

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, which failed to return to Serie A in the previous season, signed Giampaolo. He scored ten goals, but once again missed out on promotion. He played four Serie B games at the start of 1998–99 season, before joining

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, newcomer of Serie A, in October 1998. But Giampaolo's Serie A career faced another false start due to Salernitana being in the relegation zone. After playing two games for Salernitana, he returned to Pescara, league rival of Salernitana. Pescara finished bottom of the table in 2000–01 season, and Giampaolo was loaned to

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in Serie B, before returning to Pescara for the 2002–03 season, where he helped the club gain promotion back to Serie B. In July 2005, he went to play for Ascoli, later obtaining Serie A promotion due to the 2006 Italian football scandal. But he failed to play any games in his last Serie A season, as he moved to

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in Serie B on 31 August, before the start of Serie A. In July 2006, he joined another Serie B club

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. Crotone finished the second from bottom in the league, and Giampaolo found his place at Cavese of Serie C1 in the next season. He then spent the 2008–09 season with

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. He played for Noicattaro during the 2009–10 season, after which he retired from professional football.

Coaching career

In 2010, Giampaolo started a coaching career as an assistant to Sauro Trillini at Noicattaro. He then served as an Under-19 youth coach at

from 2011 to 2013, and then at

from 2013 to 2014. In 2014, Giampaolo briefly served as head coach of

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amateurs

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. During the 2015–16 season, he served as assistant to Luca D'Angelo at Fidelis Andria, before returning to Bari to accept a position in charge of their Under-17 team. He successively worked at Serie D clubs

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(2017 to 2019), Recanatese (2019 to 2021) and

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club

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from June to December 2021. In July 2022, Giampaolo returned to Bari, this time being named in charge of the Under-19 team. On 15 April 2024, he was appointed as a caretaker coach for the first team until the end of the club's 2023–24 Serie B campaign, following the dismissal of Giuseppe Iachini. Under his tenure, Bari barely suffered relegation, escaping that only after defeating

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in a two-legged playoff; he left the team by the end of the season.

References

External links

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