Alessandro Spugna

Alessandro Spugna (born 22 November 1973) is an Italian football coach who most recently managed Serie A Femminile club Sassuolo. He briefly enjoyed a playing career where he graduated from Torino's youth academy, before deciding to become a coach with the same academy when Spugna was 28 years old.

Coaching career After spending 12 years as a youth coach with Torino, Spugna accepted an offer to coach within the youth ranks of cross-town rivals Juventus in 2014.

Though Spugna never managed to win a Primavera league title with Juventus, he was credited with launching many young talents into women's senior football and accepted an offer to become the head coach of Serie A club Empoli Ladies in the summer of 2020, in time for their 2020-21 league campaign.

It was widely speculated that Empoli's decision was due to Spugna reaching a pre-contract agreement to become Roma's head coach for the following season. On 2 June 2021, Roma announced they had promoted head coach Betty Bavagnoli to a new role as their Head of Women's Sport while Alessandro Spugna was appointed the new head coach of the Roma women's team On 5 July 2021, Roma announced the permanent signing of Spugna's long-term protegee Benedetta Glionna which re-united the Italian forward to train under coach Spugna at the duo's third different club together. On 16 July 2021, Roma announced the signing of Italian defender Lucia Di Guglielmo from Empoli which re-united the player with Spugna.

Coaching style Spugna has defined his preferred style of play as one made of aggressive, attacking and bold football. Spugna consides himself a gestitore (talent manager) and not an integralista (system-based manager). He has claimed he has no preferred formation or system, and looks to adapt the formation to the playing talent at his disposal within any given match.

Honours Serie A Winners (1): 2022–23

Supercoppa Italiana Winners (1): 2022