Vincenzo Torrente

Vincenzo Torrente

Personal information
Date of birth	(1966-02-12) February 12, 1966
Place of birth	Cetara, Salerno, Italy
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	Salernitana (head coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1982–1985	Nocerina	9	(0)
1985–2000	Genoa	412	(5)
2000–2001	Alessandria	21	(0)
Managerial career
2002	Genoa (caretaker)
2009–2011	Gubbio
2011–2013	Bari
2013–2014	Cremonese
2015–2016	Salernitana
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vincenzo Torrente (born February 12, 1966 in Cetara, SA) is an Italian football coach and former defender.

Playing career

After starting his career at minor league club Nocerina, Torrente joined Genoa at the age of 19. He quickly became a mainstay for the club, spending 15 consecutive seasons with the Rossoblu at both Serie A and Serie B level, playing also at European level during the Osvaldo Bagnoli period in the early 1990s. He left Genoa in 2000, after having collected more than 400 games with the club, in order to join Alessandria, where he ended his career in 2011 at the age of 35.

Coaching career

After retirement, Torrente became a coach and promptly returned to Genoa, heading the Allievi Nazionali (under-17 youth squad). Later in 2002 he was appointed as caretaker coach together with Rino Lavezzini in what turned out to be a troublesome season that ultimately ended in relegation (then annulled due to the so-called Caso Catania) for the club. He then returned working as youth coach for Genoa until 2009, when his former boss Luigi Simoni offered him a head coaching post at Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Gubbio. Under his two-year tenure, Gubbio achieved a surprising feat of two consecutive promotions, thus reaching Serie B in June 2011 as league champions. In June 2011 he left Gubbio to become new head coach at Bari, again at Serie B level.