Complex sentence: Nicknamed "il Professore" (the Professor) because of his past teaching activity (he was a pedagogy graduate), Scoglio did not ever had a playing career, and he started a managing career in 1972 in one of the Reggina youth teams.
Split into simpler sentences: Nicknamed "il Professore" (the Professor) because of his past teaching activity (he was a pedagogy graduate), Scoglio never actually had a playing career. He started a managing career in 1972 in one of the Reggina youth teams.