Italian club Piacenza sacked two head coaches on Tuesday, November 19, with Simone Bentivoglio hired and fired on the same day.
Piacenza currently play in Serie D, Italian football’s fourth tier but spent the majority of the 1990s in Serie A. On Tuesday morning they sacked head coach Carmine Parlato along with the club’s director of sport Alessio Sestu. Bentivoglio, 39, was appointed and oversaw one training session before his contract was terminated later in the day.
He, in turn, was replaced by Stefano Rossini — who had been sacked by Piacenza in October to be replaced by Parlato. On Wednesday, the Serie D club appointed Carlo Maria Zerminiani as their new director of sport.
Bentivoglio was convicted in a match-fixing scandal in 2011, in which he served a 13-month suspension from football. Piacenza were also implicated in the scandal; the club were handed a four-point deduction in the 2011–12 season which alongside a further five-point deduction over their financial difficulties, saw them relegated and subsequently declared bankrupt.
Piacenza were most recently in Serie A in the 2002-03 campaign and spent the next eight seasons in Serie B. In 2012 they were re-founded as Piacenza Calcio 1919, who have spent the following years in lower-league Italian football.
Piacenza are currently 11th in Serie D with 14 points from 12 league matches, and defeated Villa Valle 2-1 in the Coppa Italia Serie D on Wednesday, November 20.
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