Giovanni Stroppa new coach of Venezia
Giovanni Stroppa is the new coach of Venezia: this was announced in a note on its official website by the same lagoon club, specifying that the coach has signed a one-year contract. Here is the text of the statement.
“Venezia FC announces that it has appointed Giovanni Stroppa as coach of the first team. Stroppa has signed a one-year contract until the end of the 2025/26 season with automatic renewal in case of promotion to Serie A.
Born in 1968 in Mulazzano in the province of Lodi, Giovanni Stroppa, having ended his career as a player, embarked on the coaching path by sitting on the bench of the AC Milan Primavera team, with which he won the Italian Cup in 2010.
He then coached the first teams of Sudtirol, Pescara, and Spezia, but it was with Foggia that, in the 2016/17 season, he won promotion to Serie B and the Lega Pro Super Cup. He moved to Crotone in the 2018/19 season, and with the Rossoblù he achieved his first personal promotion to Serie A.
In the summer of 2021 he took over the leadership of the first team of Monza in Serie B, with which at the end of the same won a historic promotion to Serie A, the first in the history of the Brianza club, beating Pisa in the play-off final.
On September 19, 2023, Stroppa was made official as the new coach of Cremonese, with which, on June 1, 2025, he won his third personal promotion to Serie A.
Concomitantly with the arrival of coach Stroppa, the following join the technical staff of the First Team of Venezia FC: Andrea Guerra as Assistant Coach, Fabio Allevi and Andrea Primitivi as Athletic Trainer, Nicola Dibitonto as Goalkeeping Trainer and Giuseppe Brescia in the role of Technical Collaborator.”
