Fabrizio Ravanelli

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Fabrizio Ravanelli
Fabrizio Ravanelli maggio 2012.jpg
Fabrizio Ravanelli 2012
Personnel
birthday December 11, 1968
place of birth Perugia ,  Italy
size 188 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1983-1986 AC Perugia
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1989 AC Perugia 90 (41)
1989 US Avellino 7 0(0)
1989-1990 ASD Caserta 27 (12)
1990-1991 US Avellino 0 0(0)
1991-1992 AC Reggiana 32 0(8)
1992-1996 Juventus Turin 111 (41)
1996-1998 Middlesbrough FC 34 (17)
1998-1999 Olympique Marseille 45 (21)
1999-2001 Lazio Rome 27 0(4)
2001-2003 Derby County 50 (14)
2003 Dundee FC 5 0(0)
2004-2005 AC Perugia 39 0(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-1998 Italy 22 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2011-2013 Juventus Turin (Youth)
2013 AC Ajaccio
2018 Arsenal Kiev
1 Only league games are given.

Fabrizio Ravanelli (born December 11, 1968 in Perugia ) is a former Italian football player and coach . He has played for more than half a dozen European teams during his playing career, including Juventus , Middlesbrough FC , Olympique Marseille , Lazio and Derby County . Because of his white-gray hair color from a young age, Ravanelli was known for most of his career as "la penna bianca" ("the white feather") .

Player career

In the club

Fabrizio Ravanelli began his playing career with AC Perugia , his hometown club. After further positions the breakthrough in his successful 1991/92 season at AC Reggiana in Serie B . In the next season he played for the Italian record champions Juventus Turin , where he formed a dreaded attack line together with Gianluca Vialli , Roberto Baggio and Alessandro Del Piero .

For the 1994/95 season was followed by Marcello Lippi on Giovanni Trapattoni as coach of Juventus. Ravanelli played one of the best seasons of his career under Lippi's leadership. He scored 30 goals in a total of 53 appearances and was thus instrumental in winning the 23rd  championship title of the Turin and Coppa Italia . On September 27, 1994, he scored all five goals in the 5-1 away win over CSKA Sofia in the first round of the UEFA Cup ; Juventus had to get in the two finals to AC Parma beaten.

In 1996 he won the UEFA Champions League with Turin . In the final against Ajax Amsterdam , which ended with a 4-2 win on penalties , he scored the interim 1-0 in the twelfth minute of the game.

At the end of the season, after 68 goals in 160 games for the Bianconeri, the departure from Juventus, which transferred him to the Premier League club FC Middlesbrough in England . Already in his first league game against Liverpool he scored three goals. Although Ravanelli was one of the league's top scorers, he was relegated to the First Division with Middlesbrough in his first year and made himself unpopular with teammates and fans alike with constant complaints about training, the training facilities and the city. Nevertheless, he ran in the 1997/98 season initially in the English second division, but moved in October 1997 to the French first division club Olympique Marseille , where he was under contract for two years.

After a one and a half year interlude from January 2000 to summer 2001 with Lazio Rome , where he won his second Scudetto and again the Coppa Italia in the 1999/00 season , but was mostly only reserve player, Ravanelli moved to England again in 2001 and ran for Derby County . There he rose again from the Premier League in the first year. After another year in the second division Ravanelli moved in 2003 to the Scottish first division club Dundee FC , for which he played only a short time.

In the 2004/05 season he finally ran again for his hometown club AC Perugia. After the club had reached third place in Serie B thanks to its nine goals scored, Perugia lost the promotion games against FC Turin . The license revocation followed later due to financial difficulties and the associated forced relegation. Fabrizio Ravanelli ended his active career after this season.

In the national team

Fabrizio Ravanelli made his debut on March 25, 1995 in a 4-1 victory over Estonia in the national team . He was in the squad of the Squadra Azzurra at the 1996 European Championships in England , but Italy was eliminated after the group stage. He was not nominated for the 1998 World Cup in France . The 1-0 win over Sweden on June 2, 1998 was the last of his 22 international matches in which he scored a total of eight goals.

Coaching career

From July 2011 to June 2013 Fabrizio Ravanelli worked as a youth coach at Juventus Turin . For the 2013/14 season , the French first division club AC Ajaccio signed him as a coach, but after only twelve league games they let him go prematurely due to unsuccessfulness.

successes

As a player

Web links

Commons : Fabrizio Ravanelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement francefootball.fr of November 2, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Ravanelli, Fabrizio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Perugia , Italy