Vincenzo Torrente is an Italian

Italy

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 football coach and former defender. He is currently head coach of Serie B

Serie B

Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

 side Bari

A.S. Bari

Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B....

.

Playing career

After starting his career at minor league club Nocerina, Torrente joined Genoa

Genoa C.F.C.

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 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

Osvaldo Bagnoli

Osvaldo Bagnoli is a former Italian football coach.During his long and illustrious career, he is best remembered for being the coach which led the underdogs Verona to its first Serie A title in the 1984–85 season.He has also coached a number of other Serie A teams, including Genoa and Inter.In...

 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

U.S. Alessandria Calcio 1912

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, 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

Luigi Simoni

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 offered him a head coaching post at Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Gubbio

A.S. Gubbio 1910

Associazione Sportiva Gubbio 1910 is an Italian association football club, based in Gubbio, Umbria.They currently play in Serie B. The team's colors are dark blue and red.Their home field is the Stadio Pietro Barbetti, a 5,300 capacity all-seater stadium....

. Under his two-year tenure, Gubbio achieved a surprising feat of two consecutive promotions, thus reaching Serie B

Serie B

Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...

 in June 2011 as league champions. In June 2011 he left Gubbio to become new head coach at Bari

A.S. Bari

Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B....

, again at Serie B level.