Paolo Di Canio

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Paolo Di Canio
Paolo Di Canio at Upton Park.jpg
Paolo Di Canio 2010
Personnel
birthday July 9, 1968
place of birth Rome ,  Italy
size 178 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1990 Lazio Rome 54 0(4)
1986-1987 →  Ternana Calcio  (loan) 27 0(2)
1990-1993 Juventus Turin 78 0(6)
1993-1994 SSC Naples 26 0(5)
1994-1996 AC Milan 37 0(6)
1996-1997 Celtic Glasgow 26 (12)
1997-1999 Sheffield Wednesday 41 (15)
1999-2003 West Ham United 118 (47)
2003-2004 Charlton Athletic 31 0(4)
2004-2006 Lazio Rome 50 (11)
2006-2008 AS Cisco Roma 46 (14)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1988-1990 Italy U-21 9 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2011-2013 Swindon Town
2013 Sunderland AFC
1 Only league games are given.

Paolo Di Canio (born July 9, 1968 in Rome ) is a former Italian football player and current coach . He played in the storm.

Life

Career as a player

Paolo Di Canio began his career in 1985 with Lazio Rome . He then played for ten years at various clubs in his home country, such as AC Milan and Juventus Turin . With these two clubs he won his only three titles.

In 1996 he moved to Celtic Glasgow , but was transferred to Sheffield Wednesday after just one year , despite being named Scotland's Footballer of the Year in the player poll. After Theo Snelders and Brian Laudrup, he was the third non-Brit to receive this award. At Sheffield Wednesday, Di Canio stood out for his violence. In the game against Arsenal , he clashed with his opponent Martin Keown , whereupon both saw the red card . However, the Italian refused to accept the decision and knocked referee Paul Alcock to the ground. As a consequence, a lock for eleven games and a fine of 10,000 were  pounds imposed. When he was eligible to play again, however, he was often absent from training and match days. After a £ 2m offer, Di Canio was transferred to West Ham United . At his new club, his behavior stabilized.

After the 2002/03 season, Di Canio moved to Charlton Athletic as West Ham was relegated. In the summer of 2004 he moved back to Italy to his regular club Lazio Rome. There he was named captain and again became the favorite of Lazio fans. In the summer of 2006, Di Canio went to the fourth division club AS Cisco Roma , where he ended his career in 2008.

In 2006, while walking with a famous fascist in Rome, Di Canio was attacked by right-wing football fans with the words "You are no longer a comrade, we are the real fascists". When his wife and daughter were insulted, Di Canio tried to defend himself with fights, injuring his leg.

Career as a coach

In 2008, Di Canio was under discussion as the coach of his former club West Ham United, but his political stance ensured that not he, but his compatriot Gianfranco Zola took over this post. He has had a UEFA coaching license since April 2008.

In May 2011 he took over the coaching position at the English football club Swindon Town from Danny Wilson . In the first season he led the club as the season winner directly from League 2 to League 1. He was able to establish himself in the upper part of the table in the 2012/2013 season. After disputes with the old owners about player transfers and the expected sale of the club, Di Canio canceled his contract on February 18, 2013 when the club finished sixth in the table.

On March 31, 2013, he was presented to the Premier League club AFC Sunderland as the successor to Martin O'Neill with the declared goal of relegation to the ailing first division club. At the same time, the British politician David Miliband ( Labor Party ) resigned from his supervisory board mandate at Sunderland, as he could not work with him because of Di Canio's political views. Di Canio stated in a statement that he was “not a political person”, but did not distance himself from fascism as a result. He just saved the club from relegation. His engagement there was ended by the club's management on September 22, 2013 after a weak start to the season. Di Canio could not prevail with his offensive 4-2-4 formation and had a disturbed relationship with some players.

Penalties and Politics

As captain of Lazio Rome, Di Canio was sentenced in March 2005 by the disciplinary commission of the Italian football federation FIGC to pay a fine of 10,000 euros for giving his supporters the fascist Roman salute , the Benito, at the city derby against AS Roma on January 6, 2005 Mussolini applies and is very similar to the Hitler salute.

Di Canio, who describes himself as neo-fascist and right-wing called the verdict did not accept, but repeated addressed to his fans fascist salute on 11 December 2005 at the match against AS Livorno whose followers leftist politically and whose former striker Cristiano Lucarelli communist is and when he was substituted six days later in the game against Juventus Turin. This led to a new fine of 10,000 euros and a match suspension in the Serie A . The world association FIFA also started investigations into the "Causa Canio".

The Irriducibili Lazio , of which Di Canio is a member, then organized a demonstration in favor of Di Canio in front of the headquarters of the Italian Football Association. Around 500 people took part in this on December 23. As a gesture of solidarity, three fan associations from Lazio started a collection campaign to raise the € 10,000 fine.

The word “Dux” is tattooed on Di Canio's right upper arm, written from top to bottom in the letters “DVX”, which is the Latin form of Duce (leader), the title of the former Italian dictator Mussolini. In September 2016, he was dismissed as a commentator for the TV channel Sky Sport after pictures of Di Canio with the tattoo appeared on the Internet.

title

Awards

Paolo Di Canio received the 2001 FIFA Fair Play Prize for an action during the game between West Ham United and Everton : The course of the game gave Di Canio the chance to shoot at the empty Toffees goal , but when he did Noticing that Everton's goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was injured on the ground, he picked up the ball, interrupting play for Gerrard to be treated. He was cautioned for his handball with a yellow card . FIFA described his behavior as “a particularly good act of sportsmanship”. However, Di Canio also said he'd cut his hand rather than pick up the ball in a derby against Roma.

Private

Di Canio, who has three brothers (Antonio, Giuliano and Dino), is married and has two daughters with his wife.

literature

  • Paolo di Canio, Paolo di Canio - The Autobiography , Collin William Verlag, London 2003, ISBN 0-00-710682-3

Web links

Commons : Paolo Di Canio  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Di Canio: Paolo di Canio - The Autobiography. 2003, p. 5
  2. ^ A walk with fascists: Scandal footballer Di Canio beaten up on spiegel.de on August 22, 2006
  3. ↑ West Ham wants fascists as trainers on bild.de from September 6, 2008
  4. ↑ Football fascist Di Canio wants to train West Ham on bild.de from September 6, 2008
  5. ↑ caughtoffside.com Paolo Di Canio Resigns as Swindon Town Manager, February 18, 2013
  6. ↑ Premier League: Di Canio new coach in Sunderland on spiegel.de from March 31, 2013
  7. ↑ New Head Coach on the Sunderland AFC homepage from March 31, 2013
  8. ↑ Di Canio: "I'm not a political person" , kicker.de, April 1, 2013
  9. ↑ Sunderland throws di Canio out , kicker.de, September 22, 2013
  10. ↑ "Yes, I'm a fascist, so what? I am not a racist. Why can't I say that I'm right-wing extremist? ”Martin Mazur: Cross-examination with Paolo Di Canio , football magazine 4-4-2, December 2006, p. 110ff
  11. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Controversial ex-professional: Di Canio loses TV job because of Nazi tattoo. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  12. ^ Di Canio: Paolo di Canio - The Autobiography. 2003, S. V
predecessor Office successor

Paul Gascoigne 		Scotland's Footballer of the Year
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personal data
SURNAME Di Canio, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian football player and today's coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome