Mourning in the world of Italian and world football: Giampiero Ventrone, the coach of champions, passed away due to a sudden illness
The world of Italian football, but also the international one, learned the shocking news of the death of a great character a few hours ago. Giampiero Ventrone, athletic trainer, who this year was part of the staff of the coach and friend Antonio Conte at Tottenham, the London team. An illness in the night took him away when he was only 62 years old.
His name has never been one of the most resonant, but his work still made him the protagonist of the world of sport and Italian and world football of the last decades.
Giampiero Ventrone, real guru of professional athletic traininglast night he died of a sudden illness, at the age of only 62.
This was confirmed by sources close to the preparer. According to what emerged, it would seem that the cause of death was one fulminant leukemia that left him no way out.
Who was Giampiero Ventrone
Born in Naples in 1960, the name of Giampiero Ventrone has been around in the world of football for about 30 years.
In 1994, Luciano Moggi and the Juventus club of Juventus he called him to fill the role of athletic trainer of the first team. That battleship led by Marcello Lippi and captained in the field by champions of the caliber of Gianluca Vialli, Fabrizio Ravanelli and a young Alessandro Del Piero.
His work, together with a winning mentality forged by the rest of the staff, allowed the Turin club to conquer the Champions League in 1996last European trophy for the bianconeri.
It was in those years that he was given the nickname “Marine“, To underline the hardness of his workouts.
The partnership between Ventrone and Juventus went on until 2004. Subsequently he worked for companies such as Bari, Ajaccio and Cataniabefore trying an experience abroad, in China, for the Jiangsu before and for Guangzhou then coached by Fabio Cannavaro.
From this year he had decided to return to Europe, in the football that counts, recalled by his friend Antonio Conte. The latter, who was part of the 1996 Juventus champion of Europe, had decided to rely on him for his new experience in England with the Tottenham.
At the beginning of the season the photo of the preparation, which had impressed because several players had been immortalized in prey to sick from the enormous fatigue proven in training.
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