Maurizio Trombetta (born 29 September 1962) is an Italian

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manager and former player. He was head coach of Romanian

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clubs

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 ...

and

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, and youth team coach at Reggina.

Playing career

Trombetta was born in

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. A minor league player who played

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only in his first two professional seasons, respectively with

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and

Catanzaro Catanzaro (; or ; ), also known as the "City of the two Seas" (), is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its province and the second most populated comune of the region, behind Reggio Calabr ...

, he also played from 1989 to 1991 in

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with

Triestina Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to US Triestina or just Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, in the northern Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Originally established in 1918, Triestina was one of the fo ...

Coaching career

Following his retirement as a player, Trombetta became

's ''allievi'' (under-16) youth coach in 1994, being appointed as Giovanni Galeone's assistant coach with the ''zebrette''. He then followed Galeone to

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and

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before returning to Udine, this time as

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's assistant coach. From 1999 to 2004 he and Guidolin moved to

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, both working with the ''rossoblu''. In 2004, the duo returned to

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, and then at Udinese in 2006–07. During the 2007–08 season, Trombetta chose to start a coaching career of his own and became head coach of amateur

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club Sevegliano after league Week 7. The team was at the bottom of the league table and led them to an impressive fourth place finish. In June 2008, he was appointed as the new assistant coach of Romanian

outgoing champions

and was promoted to head coach in September as a replacement for dismissed boss

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. Under his tenure as CFR Cluj coach, the club is also competing for their first time ever in the

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as Romanian champions; in his first game in the top European competition, which came only fifteen days after his appointment as head coach, Trombetta's team won 2–1 at

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thanks to two goals by Emmanuel Culio in a historical victory against the renowned ''giallorossi'' team, who were taking part to the UEFA Champions League as

runners-up. He was dismissed in January 2009, after only four months in charge, leaving CFR Cluj in fourth place in the Liga I and only weeks after having been eliminated from the UEFA Champions League. In February 2010, he was announced by Reggina as new head of the ''Primavera'' under-19 youth team, replacing

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after he was promoted head coach days earlier. In November 2011, he returned to Romania, signing a contract for a season with

. He was released after two months.

Coaching statistics

References

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