Valter Bonacina is an Italian

Italy

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 association football coach

Coach (sport)

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 and former player.

Playing career

He spent the majority of his career playing for Atalanta

Atalanta B.C.

Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy.They are nicknamed the Nerazzurri and the orobici...

 (10 seasons, 7 of which in Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

) and A.S. Roma

A.S. Roma

Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s...

 (3 seasons), and retired in 2002.

Coaching career

From 2003 to 2007 he served as assistant manager of Atalanta. In July 2007 he was then moved in charge of the Allievi Regionali youth team, and was successively promoted at the helm of the Primavera under-19 team in July 2009.

On January 8, 2010 he was then appointed head coach of Atalanta in a caretaker role, following Antonio Conte

Antonio Conte

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's resignation from his managerial position at the club. He then guided Atalanta on a Serie A Week 19 game ended in a 0–1 away loss to Palermo

U.S. Città di Palermo

Unione Sportiva Città di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily which currently plays in Serie A, the top level of Italian football. Formed in 1900 as Anglo Panormitan Athletic and Football Club, the club had various names before assuming its final form in 1987 and is currently...

 on January 10, 2009, and returned to his previous role after Bortolo Mutti

Bortolo Mutti

Bortolo Mutti is an Italian football manager and a former player.His older brother Tiziano Mutti also played football professionally...

 was appointed as head coach the very next day.

On 10 June 2011 he was announced as new head coach of Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Foggia

U.S. Foggia

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.