_(cropped).jpg) Bocchetti withSpartak Moscow in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Salvatore Bocchetti[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1986-11-30)30 November 1986 (age 38) | ||
| Place of birth | Naples, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position | Centre-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Atalanta Under-23 (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1999 | Piscinola Calcio | ||
| 1999–2001 | Internapoli | ||
| 2001–2005 | Ascoli | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2005–2007 | Ascoli | 2 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | →Lanciano (loan) | 21 | (1) |
| 2007 | →Frosinone (loan) | 17 | (2) |
| 2007–2008 | Frosinone | 38 | (2) |
| 2008–2010 | Genoa | 60 | (1) |
| 2010–2013 | Rubin Kazan | 52 | (9) |
| 2013–2019 | Spartak Moscow | 95 | (5) |
| 2015 | →AC Milan (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2019–2021 | Hellas Verona | 5 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | →Pescara (loan) | 18 | (2) |
| Total | 317 | (22) | |
| International career | |||
| 2007 | Italy U20 | 1 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | Italy U21 | 19 | (0) |
| 2008 | Olympic Italy | 9 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Italy | 5 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2022 | Hellas Verona (caretaker) | ||
| 2024–2025 | Monza | ||
| 2025– | Atalanta Under-23 | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Salvatore Bocchetti (Italian pronunciation:[salvaˈtoːrebokˈketti]; born 30 November 1986) is an Italian professionalfootball coach and former player who is the head coach ofSerie C Group C clubAtalanta Under-23. He played as acentre-back as a player.
Bocchetti started his professional career atAscoli.[2] He made hisSerie A debut against Palermo on 20 December 2006.He was sent on loan to Serie C1 forLanciano, andFrosinone ofSerie B in the second half of the 2006–07 season.[2][3] In the 2008–09 season Bocchetti was signed byGenoa and soon became a regular starter in central defence, also functioning as a fullback on occasion.[2]
In the 2010–11 season, he was signed byRubin Kazan on a 3.5-year contract with a fee reported to be around €15 million for the transfer.[4] On 2 October 2011, Bocchetti scored two goals in a league match against Tom Tomsk. Kazan won the game 2–0.[5] In January 2013, he moved toSpartak Moscow, anotherRussian Premier League club.[6] In August 2013, he received a knee surgery and missed the rest of the season.[7] On 27 January 2015,Milan had signed him on loan with an option to make the move permanent at the end of the season.[8] He was released from his Spartak contract by mutual consent on 6 July 2019.[9]
On 25 July 2019, Bocchetti joined ItalianSerie A clubHellas Verona on a two-year contract.[10]
On 29 September 2020, Bocchetti joinedSerie B clubPescara on loan until 30 June 2021.[11]
In March 2008, Bocchetti made his debut with theItaly U-21 squad. He established himself inPierluigi Casiraghi'sAzzurrini squad, which won the2008 Toulon Tournament, and retained his place in the starting lineup for theSummer Olympics, as Italy reached the quarter-finals.[2][12] Together withMarco Andreolli, he was first-choice in central defence during the2009 U-21 European Championship as Italy reached the semi-finals;[13] he was later named to the team of the tournament.
On 22 March 2009, Bocchetti received his first call-up to the senior Italy squad for twoWorld Cup qualifiers matches but remained an unused substitute.[14] On 10 October 2009, he made his seniornational team international debut againstIreland coming on as a second-half substitute inCroke Park. He was named inMarcello Lippi's 23-man squad for the2010 World Cup.[15] Bocchetti was also selected for Italy's preliminary squad forEuro 2012,[16] but was not picked for the final squad.[17]
Bocchetti has been described as a versatile, left-footedcentre back, who is also capable of being deployed as afull back. He is known for his strength, pace, and anticipation, as well as for his reliable technical ability.[18]
Following his retirement from active football, Bocchetti took on a career as a coach, rejoiningVerona in July 2021 as a youth coach in charge of the Under-18 team.[19] He left his role later in September 2021 to joinIgor Tudor's first team coaching staff as an assistant,[20] and also taking Tudor's place for a single Serie A league game againstCagliari on 30 April 2022 as Tudor himself was disqualified.[21]
Following Tudor's departure and the appointment ofGabriele Cioffi as new head coach, Bocchetti was then handed over the duties of the Under-19 team for the 2022–23 season.[22][23] In September 2022, he obtained aUEFA A license.[24]
On 13 October 2022, he was promoted head coach of Verona, replacing Gabriele Cioffi.[25] As Bocchetti had no UEFA Pro license at the time of his appointment, Verona had to ask the Italian Football Federation to hand him a temporary authorization, which was handed for a period of 30 days.[26] He guided Verona formally as head coach for a total six games, all of them ending with defeat.[27]
On 3 December 2022, after his temporary authorization to coach theGialloblu expired,[28] Verona announced the appointment ofMarco Zaffaroni as new head coach, with Bocchetti as his assistant.[29] He departed Verona by the end of the season, after the team escaped relegation by means of winning a playoff.
On 23 December 2024, Bocchetti signed a contract until 30 June 2027 as the new head coach of bottom-placed Serie A clubMonza, replacingAlessandro Nesta.[30] During his month and a half as head coach, Salvatore Bocchetti achieved a significant victory with Monza against Fiorentina — on January 13, 2025, he recorded his first win both with the Lombard club and as a professional manager, with a 2–1 result. Under his leadership, the team earned a total of 5 points. Shortly after, on February 10, 2025, the club decided to relieve him of his duties and reinstated the previous coach, Alessandro Nesta. Despite these changes, Monza was relegated to Serie B at the end of the season.[1]
On 9 July 2025, Bocchetti was hired as the new head coach ofAtalanta Under-23 in the Serie C league.[31]
Bocchetti is married to Ekaterina Maltseva, whom he met while playing for Spartak in Russia; the couple has three children.[32][33] He is fluent inItalian,English,Spanish andRussian.[34]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Ascoli | 2004–05 | Serie B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2006–07 | Serie A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Virtus Lanciano (loan) | 2005–06 | Serie C1 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 21 | 1 | ||
| Frosinone (loan) | 2006–07 | Serie B | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 17 | 2 | ||
| 2007–08 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 38 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 55 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 4 | ||
| Genoa | 2008–09 | Serie A | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 34 | 0 | ||
| 2009–10 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | – | 35 | 1 | |||
| Total | 60 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 1 | ||
| Rubin Kazan | 2010 | Russian Premier League | 7 | 2 | – | 6 | 0 | – | 13 | 2 | ||
| 2011–12 | 32 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 | – | 49 | 6 | |||
| 2012–13 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1[a] | 1 | 19 | 3 | ||
| Total | 52 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 81 | 11 | ||
| Spartak Moscow | 2012–13 | Russian Premier League | 10 | 0 | – | – | – | 10 | 0 | |||
| 2013–14 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 13 | 0 | |||
| 2014–15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 2015–16 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 30 | 3 | ||||
| 2016–17 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 17 | 1 | |||
| 2017–18 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 18 | 1 | ||
| 2018–19 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 22 | 0 | |||
| Total | 95 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 115 | 5 | ||
| A.C. Milan (loan) | 2014–15 | Serie A | 9 | 0 | – | – | – | 9 | 0 | |||
| Hellas Verona | 2019–20 | Serie A | 5 | 0 | – | – | – | 5 | 0 | |||
| Pescara (loan) | 2020–21 | Serie B | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 19 | 2 | ||
| Career total | 317 | 22 | 16 | 1 | 41 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 376 | 24 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 2009 | 3 | 0 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 5 | 0 | |
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Hellas Verona (caretaker) |  | 13 October 2022 | 2 December 2022 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 000.00 |
| Monza | | 23 December 2024 | 10 February 2025 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 16 | −10 | 014.29 |
| Total | 13 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 28 | −18 | 007.69 | |||
Rubin Kazan[35]
Spartak Moscow[35]
Italy U21[37]
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