Full name Rocco Boscaglia 2004–2006 Akragas Name Roberto Boscaglia | Current team none Role Football player Years Team | |
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Date of birth (1968-03-20) March 20, 1968 (age 47) Similar People Serse Cosmi, Matteo Mancosu, Maurizio Ciaramitaro, Luca Pagliarulo, Giovanni Abate Profiles | ||
Rocco "Roberto" Boscaglia (born 24 May 1968 in Gela) is an Italian football coach and former midfielder. He is the current head coach of Serie B side Brescia.
Career
A former amateur midfielder, Boscaglia took his first head coaching role in 2004 at the helm of Eccellenza club Akragas, obtaining a seventh and a second place in two seasons in charge. In 2006, he then took over from another Sicilian Eccellenza club, Alcamo, leading them to promotion to Serie D. This was then followed by two seasons at Nissa, which he led to Serie D promotion as well (in a personal second consecutive Eccellenza title) followed by a surprising third place in the top amateur flight.
Boscaglia's impressive results at Nissa led to interests from ambitious Serie D club Trapani, owned by navigation entrepreneur Vittorio Morace who offered him the vacant coaching role at his club with the goal to bring the Granata back into professionalism. In his first season in charge, Boscaglia guided Trapani into second place behind Milazzo; however the club was successively admitted into Lega Pro Seconda Divisione later that season to fill a vacancy in the league.
In his first taste of professional football, Boscaglia led Trapani to another second place, then defeating Avellino in the promotion play-off final to ensure his club a second consecutive promotion.
In the 2011–12 season, Trapani - now in the Italian third tier, Lega Pro Prima Divisione - surprisingly emerged as contenders for a third consecutive promotion, missing out at the very last weekday to Spezia Calcio and then losing to Virtus Lanciano in the playoff finals. However, promotion was only delayed by one season as Boscaglia surprisingly led Trapani to a championship title the following year against the likes of Lecce, who were unanimously tipped as title favourites, and ensured a historical first Serie B campaign ever to the Sicilian minnows. As head coach of a newly promoted Serie B club, he was therefore successfully admitted to the yearly UEFA Pro Licence course to be held in Coverciano.
Boscaglia was dismissed as head coach of Trapani on 10 March 2015, after six years in charge, due to poor results; his role was taken over by Serse Cosmi.
For the 2015–16 season, Boscaglia was named head coach of Brescia. He left Brescia on June 2016 to accept an offer from another Serie B club, Novara.
On 3 June 2017, after completing a full season in charge of Novara, he agreed upon returning to Brescia as their head coach for the 2017–18 Serie B season.