Gian Piero Ventrone died: he was on Conte's staff in the last Bari promoted to Serie A

Gian Piero Ventrone died: he was on Conte's staff in the last Bari promoted to Serie A


NoonOct 6, 2022 - 10:39 am

The athletic trainer passed away at 62 from leukemia. He was currently working in Tottenham with the Salento coach, with whom he shared his experience in red and white in 2008-09

from Nicol Delvecchio

Giampiero Ventrone at the time of Bari



Ventrone in conversation with the Bari players, 2008-09 season
Ventrone in conversation with the Bari players, 2008-09 season

The team of the duo Conte-Ventrone, after a not exciting start, from an athletic point of view finally exploded in December, starting an unstoppable march that led them to line up 16 consecutive useful results (equaling what was until then the record of Mr. Gaetano Salvemini) and to keep firmly the first place in the standings.

In the summer of 2009, then, the divorce with the red and white club but not with its former Juventus players: in addition to being linked to Conte, in fact, he was part of the staff of Fabrizio Ravanelli Ajaccio (France) and of Fabio Cannavaro at the Guangzhou Evergrande. In 2021 Conte had recalled him to Tottenham with him, and just this summer the videos of Spurs footballers exhausted at the end of training went viral on social networks: methods not for everyone, marine methods.

Il Bari: A hug to the family from all the red and white people

Soon came the condolences of the Bari: The president Luigi De Laurentiis and the whole SSC Bari join the pain of the Ventrone family and of Tottenham, for the death of Gian Piero. The deepest condolences and the embrace of all the red and white people reach the family and all their affections, we read in a note. Corrado Colombo, former striker of that Bari (16 appearances and 3 goals in the promotion season) was among the first players to dedicate a thought to Ventrone on social media: I don't want to believe it… Prof! A Marines can't leave us… .one of the very few real people I met in football… one I felt with, he wrote on Facebook.

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