Luigi Pieroni

Luigi Pieroni
Personal information
Date of birth	8 September 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth	Liège, Belgium
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Raja CA (assistant)
Youth career
1988–1991	RFC Montegnee
1991–1993	Liège
1993–1998	Standard Liège
Senior career*
Years	Team
1998–1999	Standard Liège
1999–2003	Liège
2003–2004	Mouscron
2004–2007	Auxerre
2007–2008	Nantes
2007–2008	→ Lens (loan)
2008	→ Anderlecht (loan)
2008–2010	Valenciennes
2010	Gent
2010–2011	Standard Liège
2011–2013	Arles-Avignon
Total
International career
2004–2008	Belgium
Managerial career
2016–2019	Standard Liège B (assistant)
2019–2021	RFC Seraing (assistant)
2021	KAA Gent (U16)
2021–	Raja CA (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Luigi Pieroni (born 8 September 1980) is a Belgian football manager and former player who is assistant manager of Raja CA. A forward, he played in Belgium and France. At international level, he represented the Belgium national team.

Playing career

Pieroni was born in

AC Arles-Avignon on 19 July 2011. His playing career came to a halt in the end of the 2012–13 season when he retired at the age of 32 due to a long time Phlebitis

.

Coaching career

In March 2016 it was announced, that Pieroni had returned to Standard Liège and should be working as a forward coach for the club's academy, scout for the first team and also as assistant manager for the reserve team.^[1]^[2]

Pieroni left Standard in the summer 2019, to become the assistant manager of his former teammate,

Royal Football Club Seraing.^[3]

After promotion to the

KAA Gent, following head coach Emilio Ferrera

who became head of youth at Gent.

On 16 November 2021, it was reported that Pieroni had quit the U16 of Gent to become the assistant of Marc Wilmots at Raja CA.^[4]

Personal life

He has a son, Gianluca born on 4 January 2007.^{[citation needed]}

International goals

Scores and results list Belgium's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Pieroni goal.

List of international goals scored by Luigi Pieroni
No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	1 March 2006	Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	2–0	2–0	Friendly
2	21 November 2007	Tofig Bahramov Stadium, Baku , Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	1–0	1–0	Euro 2008 Qualification