Gerald A. Azzinaro Jr. (/ˌæzɪˈnɛəroʊ/; born July 11, 1958) is an American football coach who most recently served as the defensive coordinator for the UCLA Bruins football team.
Azzinaro was promoted to defensive coordinator for the Minutemen in 1994, and subsequently moved on to Boston College as the team's defensive line coach in 1995.
After coaching the defensive line at Maine in 1998, Azzinaro was the defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator for Syracuse from 1999 to 2003.
He was the defensive line coach for New Hampshire in 2007 and for Marshall in 2008.
However, in 2016, Azzinaro again followed Chip Kelly, this time to the San Francisco 49ers where Kelly was named head coach, and hired Azzinaro in same role he had in Philadelphia.