Franco Scoglio, 20 years without the legendary coach called "the professor"

It has already been 20 years since the death of Franco Scoglio, the former coach who was called “the professor” by all, because of his degree in pedagogy and his past as a teacher.

His name is mainly linked to two teams: at Messina he won the Serie C1 championship and achieved historic promotion to Serie B in the 1985-86 season, also touching Serie A the following season.

Visceral his relationship then with Genoa, which he coached in three separate spells, bringing it back to Serie A in 1989. He also guided Udinese, Bologna, and Torino, among others, as well as Tunisia, of which he was technical commissioner.

On October 3, 2005, while participating in a television broadcast on the local network Primocanale in Genoa, Scoglio felt ill. During the commercial called immediately all attempts at resuscitation were in vain.