Raja Casablanca appoint another Belgian as coach
Raja Club Athletic (Raja Casablanca ) have appointed another Belgian Luigi Pieroni to the coaching department of the club, Felele247.com understands.
The 41 years old will serve as an assistant to the newly appointed Marc Willmot after Belgian side youth team (U16) KK Genk is a former Belgian professional football, who played as a forward.
Pieroni was born in Liège, Belgium. He finished the 2003–04 Belgian First Division season as topscorer with 28 goals while he was playing for R.E. Mouscron. He previously played with R.F.C. Liégeois, Auxerre and was loaned out to Lens and Anderlecht while he was under contract with the FC Nantes. In 2008, he signed with Valenciennes and in 2010 he returned to Belgium, where he signed with K.A.A. Gent. After a two-year stint with Standard Liège, he signed a contract with French Ligue 2 club AC Arles-Avignon on 19 July 2011. His playing career came to a halt in the end of the 2012–13 season when he retired at the age of 32 due to a long time Phlebitis.
Luigi started his coaching career in March 2016 it was announced, that Pieroni had returned to Standard Liège and should be working as a forward coach for the club’s academy, scout for the first team and also as assistant manager for the reserve team.
Pieroni left Standard in the summer 2019, to become the assistant manager of his former teammate, Christophe Grégoire, at Royal Football Club Seraing.
After promotion to the Jupiler Pro League in 2021, Luigi Pieroni left Seraing to train the U16 youth of KAA Gent, following head coach Emilio Ferrera who became head of youth at Gent.
