As in 2021, the Genoa under 18 won the Italian champion title by beating Rome in the final: 2-0 ad Ancona with the goals of Venturino And Roman on penalty. As in 2021, he was on the bench Gennaro Ruotolonow the most titled in history among the coaches of the rossoblu youth sector.
Born in 1967, born in Santa Maria a Vico in the province of Caserta, Ruotolo passed through amaranth at the beginning of his career as a footballer. Between 1986 and 1988 he made 70 appearances in Serie B with 2 goals (one against Pisa and one against Modena). His first season was good, his second less so, conditioned by one pubalgia which tormented him until the last day and prevented him from fully expressing his value. Furthermore, that was an unfortunate year and Arezzo were relegated to the third series despite a staff built to even aim for the A league, which included Tovalieri and Silenzi, Nappi and Ugolotti, Dell’Anno and De Stefanis, Mangoni and Minoia, Butti and Allievi, Ermini and Pozza. Ruotolo, who later became a symbol of Genoa (444 appearances), in 2015/16 coached the Sangiovannese in Serie D. He returned to Grifone in 2019.
Gianluca Falsinifrom Arezzo, born in 1975, won his third championship on the bench of the youth team of Rome. After those achieved at the helm of the under 16s, another one arrived with the under 17s. The 3-1 over theEmpoli in the final in Ascoli: Giallorossi goals by Belmonte (double) e Sugamele.
Falsini, originally from Indicator, grew up as a footballer in the Parma youth academy, and then wore the shirts of Monza, Padova, Verona, Atalanta, Reggina, Siena and Catania. To Arezzo he arrived at the end of his career, in the second part of the 2007/08 season in Lega Pro, collecting 5 appearances with Cooks And Fraschetti on the bench, in a championship in which the playoffs faded on the last day due to the separate ranking with Perugia and Pescara. Falsini then hung up his boots and began his coaching career with excellent results, trying his hand at the youth teams of Verona, Empoli, Siena, Reggina and, indeed, Roma. Now he is the number one candidate to lead the Spring in place of Federico Guidi, destined for Milan.
