Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini wins Italian award for Serie A Coach of the year

Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini on Monday won the Italian soccer’s Golden Bench award for the beat Serie A coach over the 2018-19 season.

The Tuscan coach, who is currently unemployed, steered Juve to their eighth straight Serie A title but paid the price for failing to gain European silverware.

Gasperini got 22 votes out of 49 from first and second division technicians at Italy training camp Coverciano near Florence. Mihajlovic, who has been battling cancer, came second with 13 votes. Allegri, who had won the previous two editions of the prize, got six votes.

Gasperini who led Atlanta to Champions League qualification last year, said “Our profession is very complicated, there are many tensions at every match, not just when you lose but when you win too. “But we coaches are privileged, this prize if cause for great satisfaction which I dedicate to all my colleagues”.

Via ANSA

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