Career
He was most recently head coach of Serie B side Pro Vercelli. A Genoa youth product, Scazzola made his professional debut in a 1990-1991 Coppa Italia game against Roma. He successively left Genoa to pursue a long career in the lower divisions, starting with Massese (Serie C1) in 1991.
He made his Serie B debut in 1996, in what was a short comeback of his at Genoa.
He left professional football in 2006 after a short stint with Pisa to join Vercelli-based amateurs Pro Belvedere, with whom he served as captain in the club"s historical Serie Doctorate promotion in 2009. He retired in 2010, aged 39, after a Serie C2 season in which he served contemporaneously as both player and assistant head coach.
After retirement, Scazzola accepted a youth coach position at the club after it merged with and changed denomination to Pro Vercelli. In 2012 he took charge of the Primavera under-19 club at the club, and in 2013 he was named new head coach for the club"s 2013-2014 Lega Pro Prima Divisione campaign.
As head coach of a newly promoted Serie B club, Scazzola was also successfully admitted to the yearly Union of European Football Associations Pro Licence course to be held in Coverciano.
