Claudio Gentile

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Claudio Gentile
Claudio Gentile.jpg
Claudio Gentile 2006
Personnel
birthday September 27, 1953
place of birth Tripoli ,  Libya
size 182 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
Varese FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1972 Arona 34 (4)
1972-1973 Varese FC 34 (1)
1973-1984 Juventus Turin 283 (9)
1984-1987 AC Florence 70 (0)
1987-1988 Piacenza Calcio 20 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1975-1984 Italy 71 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2000-2006 Italy U21
1 Only league games are given.

Claudio Gentile (born September 27, 1953 in Tripoli , Libya ) is a former Italian football player and coach .

Career

As a player

Claudio Gentile's career began in the youth department of Varese FC . In the 1971-72 season he played in Arona in the Series D . For the following season he returned to Varese.

When he moved to Juventus Turin in 1973 , he was already a seasoned player in his position as left or right full- back. For years he was known for his level-headed but consistent man marking . The successes he achieved with the Turin club were correspondingly great . By the time he left Juventus in 1984, he had worn the white and black jersey a total of 414 times. For the 1984/85 season he moved to Fiorentina , for which he played three years. In 1987 he went to Piacenza Calcio .

Its use at the Soccer World Cup in 1982 , at which Italy also became world champions, is legendary to this day . At that time he played the most important tournament of his career: His close and very hard man marking eliminated both Diego Maradona and later Zico . Between 1974 and 1984 he played a total of 71 times for the Italian national soccer team .

As a trainer

After his active career Claudio Gentile in 1992 initially began as a club coach at Calcio Lecco , before 1998 FIGC changed and assistant coach and later coach of the U-20 national team was.

In July 2000, he became the assistant coach of Giovanni Trapattoni for the Italian national team .

On October 12, 2000 Gentile was hired as the coach of the Italian U-21 national team . At the U-21 European Championship in Germany in 2004 , his team became European champions, and a little later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , his team won the bronze medal. After the U-21 European Championship in Portugal in 2006 , where Italy was eliminated in the first round, Gentile's contract was no longer renewed. He was succeeded by former star strikers Pierluigi Casiraghi and Gianfranco Zola .

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Commons : Claudio Gentile  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Article in the world
personal data
SURNAME Gentile, Claudio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Tripoli , Libya