Renato Buso (born 19 December 1969) is an Italian professional football coach and a former player who was deployed as a

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or as a

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Club career

Born in

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, Buso initially began his career playing as a

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or as a

centre-forward Forwards (also known as attackers) are outfield positions in an association football team who play the furthest up the pitch and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals as well as assisting them. As with any attacking player, the role ...

with

Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system. Founded in ...

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in 1985, at the age of 16, immediately winning the

1985–86 Serie A The 1985–86 Serie A season was won by Juventus. Teams Pisa, Lecce and Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern It ...

title and the

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, although he was mainly a reserve player at the club, behind forwards

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, and

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. He later moved to

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in 1989, where he was deployed alongside

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and

Oscar Dertycia Oscar Alberto Dertycia Álvarez (born 3 March 1965) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a striker, who later worked as a manager. Club career Born in Córdoba, Córdoba Province, Dertycia started playing professionally with hometow ...

as a winger, or as a

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. During his time at the club, he played and scored in the

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against his former team, although Fiorentina would lose the tournament. He subsequently moved to

Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s ...

in 1991, where he won the

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. He began to be deployed as a midfielder as his career progressed, and he later also played for

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(1993–1996),

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( 1996–97),

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(1997–2000),

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( 2000–01), ending his career with

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(2001–04).

International career

Buso has also represented

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at youth level at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

, and at the

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under

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, where he helped Italy to win the tournament, finishing as the top goalscorer, with 3 goals over the semi-final against

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, and the final against Sweden. In total, he made 5 appearances for Italy's Olympic Squad, and 25 appearances for the Under-21 side, scoring 9 goals.

Coaching career

On 17 November 2011, he became the new coach of

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in place of the sacked Guido Pagliuca.Gavorrano: esonerato Guido Pagliuca; arriva Renato Buso.
Radiobrunotoscana.it He was dismissed in April 2013, with Gavorrano in deep relegation zone under risk of leaving professional football, and replaced by

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Honours

Club

Juventus *

: 1985–86 Sampdoria *

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International

Italy U-21 *

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Individual

Top-scorer:

Golden Player:

References

External links

Renato Buso
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