Bruno Labbadia (pronounced ; born 8 February 1966) is a German retired footballer and manager of Italian heritage.
Labbadia is of Italian ancestry. His family roots go to Lenola, a town in the province of Latina, in Lazio region. Labbadia's Italian parents moved to Germany as Gastarbeiter and settled in Schneppenhausen not far from Darmstadt in Hesse. Together with eight siblings, he lived on a farm in Schneppenhausen, where the family had lived for rent, before moving with his family to a house in Weiterstadt at the age of ten. Labbadia communicated in Italian with his parents, while he spoke German with his siblings.
Labbadia acquired his secondary school leaving certificate and trained as an insurance salesman. When he was 18 years old, he gave up Italian citizenship and became a German citizen, since two foreigners were eligible to play German football at the time, but three foreigners belonged to the squad of his then club SV Darmstadt 98. He was also associated with the German U21 national team.