Gianluca Zambrotta

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Gianluca Zambrotta
Football against poverty 2014 - Gianluca Zambrotta.jpg
Gianluca Zambrotta (2014)
Personnel
birthday 19th February 1977
place of birth Como ,  Italy
size 181 cm
position Right / left full-back
Juniors
Years station
1992-1994 Como Calcio
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994-1997 Como Calcio 48 (6)
1997-1999 AS Bari 59 (6)
1999-2006 Juventus Turin 217 (7)
2006-2008 FC Barcelona 58 (3)
2008–2012 AC Milan 85 (2)
2013-2014 FC Chiasso 3 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998-2000 Italy U21 13 (1)
1999-2010 Italy 98 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2013 FC Chiasso (assistant coach)
2013-2015 FC Chiasso
2016 Delhi Dynamos FC
1 Only league games are given.

Gianluca Zambrotta [dʒanˈluːka dzambˈrɔtta] (born February 19, 1977 in Como ) is a former Italian football player and current coach . He started his career as a right midfielder and was able to play on both left and right defense.

Career

In the club

Zambrotta began his career in 1994 at Como Calcio in Serie B . He was playing on the right side of midfield at the time and became a regular. When the team was relegated at the end of the 1996/97 season, he was signed by AS Bari . In Serie A he was a top performer at Bari.

In 1999 he moved to Juventus Turin for the equivalent of around 16 million euros . When left defender Gianluca Pessotto was injured in 2002, Marcello Lippi retrained Zambrotta as a full-back and became one of the world's best players in this position. With Juventus, Zambrotta won the championship four times and the Italian Supercup twice . He was also in the 2003 Champions League final with Juventus , which they lost on penalties against AC Milan .

After seven years in Turin, he moved to FC Barcelona in July 2006 because the club had to relegate to Serie B due to the 2005/06 Italian soccer scandal . In 2008 he signed a four-year contract with AC Milan, which paid a transfer fee of nine million euros to FC Barcelona. After his contract expired, he left AC Milan at the end of the 2011/12 season. After a year of no contract, FC Chiasso from Switzerland signed Zambrotta in July 2013. There he was active as a player and assistant coach to Ernestino Ramella until 2014 .

As a trainer

After Ramella's dismissal, Zambrotta took over the team as head coach at the end of November 2013. FC Chiasso released him on April 6, 2015.

In the national team

In 1999 he was appointed to the national team for the first time by the then coach Dino Zoff . He made his debut on February 10, 1999 against Norway .

At the EM 2000 Zambrotta reached the final with Italy . In the semifinals, he got the only red card of his professional career against the Netherlands after only half an hour . He took part in the 2002 World Cup and the 2004 European Championship with Italy . At the 2004 European Championships, he was elected to the All-Star Team despite the early elimination of his team .

At the 2006 World Cup in Germany , Gianluca Zambrotta won the World Cup with Italy . In the quarter-final match against Ukraine , he scored one goal and gave one assist. Because of his excellent performance, the Italian was voted into the tournament's All-Star Team. In the same year he was also nominated for the UEFA Team of the Year and for the FIFPro World XI . Zambrotta competed with Italy in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup , with Italy eliminated in the preliminary round. Also at the Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa the end came in the preliminary round. In both tournaments Zambrotta was used in all preliminary round matches. After Italy's early elimination from the World Cup, he was used again on October 12, 2010 in the European Championship qualifier against Serbia , which was canceled after six minutes due to riots by Serbian spectators.

successes

As a national player

With his clubs

* revoked in the context of the Italian soccer scandal in 2005/2006

Personal awards

Web links

Commons : Gianluca Zambrotta  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zambrotta esonerato - è ufficiale!
personal data
SURNAME Zambrotta, Gianluca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Como