Vince Briganti

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Vince Briganti
Personal information
Full name Vincenzo Briganti
Date of birth (1947-01-05) 5 January 1947 (age 77)
Place of birth Terni, Italy
Youth career
1961–1972
KFC Winterslag
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972–1976
KFC Winterslag[1]
1977–1978 White Star Beverst (player-trainer)[2]
Managerial career
1977–1978 White Star Beverst (player-trainer)[2]
1978–1979
KFC Winterslag
1981–1982
KFC Winterslag
?–? K.S.C. Hasselt
?–? Bilzen VV
1987–1988
KFC Winterslag
1989–1990
KFC Zwarte Leeuw
1990–1991 K. Stade Leuven
1991–1996
Genk
(youth coordinator)
1999–2002 Belgium (assistant trainer)
2004–2006 Sint-Truidense V.V. (assistant trainer)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vincenzo "Vince" Briganti (born 5 January 1947) is an Italo-Belgian former football player and manager.

Personal life

Four years after his birth in Terni, Italy,[1] Vince Briganti's father moved to Belgium to find work in the mining area. One year later also the rest of the family moved to Genk.[3]

Briganti is married and became father of two sons, Fabrizio and Lorenzo.[2]

Career

In the 1970s Briganti played for third-tier team

KFC Winterslag. In that period Robert Waseige was trainer of the club from Belgian Limburg. In a couple of years, the club promoted from Third to First Division
.

Afterwards he achieved a trainer's certificate and became Waseige's assistant trainer at Winterslag. Later hij also became head coach of the club multiple times, often after another trainer was fired. After a couple of years at Winterslag Briganti trained the first teams of the clubs

KFC Zwarte Leeuw and K. Stade Leuven
.

After a short career as trainer Briganti became football teacher at

Bloso. He combined that function with scouting tasks for Waseige, who assigned him as his assistant for the Belgium national team. In 2001, he even became the factual trainer of the Belgian Red Devils for a friendly match against Czech Republic (a 1–1 draw) as stand-in for Waseige who underwent heart surgery; he trained the outfield players while Jacky Munaron trained the goalkeepers.[4] With Briganti as assistant trainer, Belgium reached the second stage at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Later, he also became Marc Wilmots's assistant for a short time with Sint-Truidense V.V.

References

  1. ^ a b Vince Briganti at WorldFootball.net
  2. ^ a b c "Sa carte de visite..." La Dernière Heure (in French). 24 April 2001. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  3. Gazet Van Antwerpen
    (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  4. ^ Hassanin Mubarak (7 August 2003). "Belgium National Team Coaches". RSSSF. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
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