Valerio Bertotto

Valerio Bertotto

Personal information
Date of birth	(1973-01-15) January 15, 1973
Place of birth	Turin, Italy
Height
Position(s)	Right Back
Team information
Current team	Italy U20 Lega Pro
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1990–1993	Alessandria	26	(0)
1993–2006	Udinese	334	(3)
2006–2008	Siena	43	(2)
2009	Venezia	19	(0)
International career‡
2000–2001	Italy	4	(0)
Managerial career
2012-	Italy U20 Lega Pro
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of February 12, 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of February 12, 2009

Valerio Bertotto (born January 15, 1973 in Turin, Piedmont) is an Italian former footballer, who played as a defender, and an association football manager who is currently in charge as head coach of Italy U20 Lega Pro.

Career

Club career

Bertotto started his professional career in season 1990–1991 for Alessandria of Italian Serie C2. He joined Udinese in 1993, quickly becoming a historical masterpiece for the team, and spending thirteen seasons with the Friuli side, also captaining his side to their to date only appearance in the UEFA Champions League, becoming also the Udinese player with the highest number of matches played for the team ever.

In July 2006, aged 33, he left Udinese to join Siena, another Serie A team, playing two seasons as a regular for the Tuscan side. He was successively released as a free agent on June 2008, and on January 2009 he accepted an offer from Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Venezia. He was released for free after the club was excluded from the Italian football panorama due to financial issues.

In 2010 he obtained the UEFA A coaching license, made him eligible to coach Lega Pro teams, however he haven't started the coaching career yet, until 2012.

International career

Bertotto has played 4 times for the Italy national football team between 2000-01, all during his spell at Udinese, with his debut coming on a European qualification match against Georgia on 11 October 2000, in Ancona. He missed out on the 2002 FIFA World Cup due to injury.

Managing career

Italy U20 Lega Pro

On 9 August 2012 he was named head coach (Italian: selezionatorecode: it is deprecated ) of Italy U20 Lega Pro in place of Giorgio Veneri.

Style of play

Bertotto was a hard-tackling, uncompromising central defender, who was solid in the air, and effective in the timing of his challenges. Althoug he was neither particularly quick nor technically gifted, he made up for his lack of pace and skill with his experience and positional sense, and his greatest strength was his ability to defend opposing forwards in one-on-one situations.

External links

• Bertotto's page at uefa.com