Gaetano Salvemini

Gaetano Salvemini (15 January 1942 – 6 September 2024) was an Italian football player and manager.

Career Born in Molfetta, the son of a sailor, he was among the protagonists of the Venezia FC promotion to the top division in the 1965–66 season.

As a football manager, Salvemini started his career as Empoli youth team manager. With Empoli main team, he got a promotion to Serie A in 1986, the first of the club, and was its manager for two seasons in the top division. Because of the unexpected salvation of Empoli in its first season in the top league, he got the nickname "SalvEmpoli" (a pun combining his surname with the phrase 'salva Empoli', i.e. 'save Empoli').

Moved to Bari, in his first season he brought the team to Serie A, then he secured two salvations in the top division and won a Mitropa Cup. In the following years he coached numerous teams, including Genoa, with which he won an Anglo-Italian Cup, Palermo, Cremonese, and Monza.