Roberto Baggio

Roberto Baggio
Roberto Baggio, 2013
Personnel
birthday	February 18, 1967
place of birth	Caldogno ,  Italy
size	174 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1974-1980	Caldogno
1980-1982	Lanerossi Vicenza
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1982-1985	Lanerossi Vicenza	36 (13)
1985-1990	AC Florence	95 (39)
1990-1995	Juventus Turin	141 (78)
1995-1997	AC Milan	51 (12)
1997-1998	Bologna FC	30 (22)
1998-2000	Inter Milan	42 (11)
2000-2004	Brescia Calcio	95 (45)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1988-2004	Italy	56 (27)
1 Only league games are given.

Roberto Baggio (born February 18, 1967 in Caldogno , Vicenza Province , Italy ) is a former Italian football player . Because of his talent and the hairstyle that Baggio wore for most of his career, he was nicknamed "Il Divin Codino" (The divine pigtail).

Career

society

Roberto Baggio began his professional career in 1982 with the then third division club Vicenza Calcio , where he previously played for two years as a youth and who then called himself SS Lanerossi Vicenza . In 1985, after helping Vicenza to rise to Serie B , he moved to Serie A at Fiorentina . Baggio seriously injured his right knee in one of his last games with Vicenza . The injury prevented him from playing consistently for the next two years. But he recovered and increased enormously.

In 1990 Baggio moved to Juventus Turin for around 15 billion lire (15.2 million DM ), at that time the most expensive transfer in the world . During his time at Juventus, he played arguably the best football of his career. In the 1992/93 season he won the UEFA Cup with the club in the final against Borussia Dortmund after Paris Saint-Germain had been beaten in the semifinals . In the semifinals and finals, Baggio scored a total of five goals. In the same year he was named FIFA World Player of the Year and European Footballer of the Year .

In the 1994/95 season Juventus won the championship and the cup. Baggio, who had only played half of all games this season, had to watch as Alessandro Del Piero became his successor. Juventus' honorary president Giovanni Agnelli eventually sold Baggio to one of the club's biggest rivals, AC Milan , in the confidence that they would have an equivalent replacement in Del Piero.

In Milan Baggio won the championship again in 1996, but went to FC Bologna in 1997 after he had been more or less retired from AC Milan . He cut off his pigtail, his previous trademark, and got himself physically in shape through hard training. Against all odds, he scored 22 goals in 30 games. Another return to Milan, this time to Inter , was unfortunate. Often injured, Baggio could not live up to the high expectations. He also couldn't get along with coach Marcello Lippi . His last game with Inter against AC Parma should be a symbol game. With two goals he shot the Milan club in the Champions League.

At the age of 33, he accepted an offer from Brescia Calcio . This decision also enabled him to stay with his family. At Brescia Calcio, Baggio had Carlo Mazzone as coach, who had no doubts about his skills and allowed him to play where he wanted. Baggio managed to stay up four times with Brescia Calcio and exceeded the limit of 200 goals in Serie A during this time .

On May 16, 2004, during the away game against AC Milan, Baggio said goodbye to the national football stage; he was replaced in the 84th minute and received standing applause for minutes from around 80,000 spectators in the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium . Without Baggio, whose shirt number "10" Brescia no longer awards, the club failed to stay in the league the following year and relegated to Serie B.

In total, Baggio completed 452 games in Serie A and scored 205 goals. He is seventh on the all-time top scorer list in Italy's top division.

National team

On November 16, 1988 Baggio completed his debut for the Italian national team . He took part in the 1990 World Cup. At the 1994 World Cup in the United States , Baggio reached the final with the national team, which they lost to Brazil on penalties. After bringing Italy to the final almost single-handedly with five goals from the round of 16, he missed the last penalty and became the tragic figure of this World Cup. Of the five Italian shooters, only two were able to convert their penalty. His performance and the constant requests from his Tifosi to the then national coach Cesare Maldini helped him to participate in the 1998 World Cup in France . After mixed performances at Inter Milan, he was not taken to the EM 2000 . Despite consistently good performances in Brescia, he was not nominated for either the 2002 World Cup or the 2004 European Championship . Under Giovanni Trapattoni he played his farewell game in the national team on April 28, 2004 in the friendly against Spain .

title

With the national team

• World Cup third : 1990
• Vice World Champion : 1994

With his clubs

• UEFA Cup winners : 1992/93
• Italian champion : 1994/95 , 1995/96
• Italian cup winner : 1994/95
• Italian Super Cup winner : 1995

Individual successes / honors

• Europe's footballer of the year as a U-23 player : 1990
• Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic : 1991
• Top scorer of the European Cup Winners' Cup : 1990/91
• FIFA World Player of the Year : 1993
• Europe's footballer of the year : 1993
• Onze d'or : 1993
• World Soccer Player of the Year: 1993
• Football World Cup 1994 : All-Star-Team, Silver Ball
• Guerin d'Oro (Best Serie A Player) : 2001
• Admission to FIFA 100
• Peace Summit Award 2010
• In 2011 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Italian Football

Season statistics

society	league	season	league		Cup		European Cup		Other		total
			Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates
Lanerossi Vicenza	Series C	1982/83	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0
		1983/84	6th	1	6th	1	-	-	-	-	12	2
		1984/85	29	12	5	2	-	-	-	-	34	14th
total			36	13	11	3	-	-	-	-	47	16
AC Florence	Series A	1985/86	0	0	5	0	-	-	-	-	5	0
		1986/87	5	1	4th	2	1	0	-	-	10	3
		1987/88	27	6th	7th	3	-	-	-	-	34	9
		1988/89	31	15th	10	9	-	-	-	-	41	24
		1989/90	32	17th	2	1	12	1	-	-	46	19th
total			95	39	28	15th	13	1	-	-	136	55
Juventus Turin	Series A	1990/91	33	14th	5	3	8th	9	1	1	47	27
		1991/92	32	18th	8th	4th	-	-	-	-	40	22nd
		1992/93	27	21st	7th	3	9	6th	-	-	43	30th
		1993/94	32	17th	2	2	7th	3	-	-	41	22nd
		1994/95	17th	8th	4th	2	8th	4th	-	-	29	14th
total			141	78	26th	14th	32	22nd	1	1	200	115
AC Milan	Series A	1995/96	28	7th	1	0	5	3	-	-	34	10
		1996/97	23	5	5	3	5	1	-	-	33	9
total			51	12	6th	3	10	4th	-	-	67	19th
Bologna FC	Series A	1997/98	30th	22nd	3	1	-	-	-	-	33	23
total			30th	22nd	3	1	-	-	-	-	33	23
Inter Milan	Series A	1998/99	23	5	6th	1	6th	4th	-	-	35	10
		1999/00	19th	6th	5	1	-	-	-	-	24	7th
total			42	11	11	2	6th	4th	-	-	59	17th
Brescia Calcio	Series A	2000/01	25th	10	3	0	-	-	-	-	28	10
		2001/02	12	11	1	0	2	1	-	-	15th	12
		2002/03	32	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	12
		2003/04	26th	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	26th	12
total			95	45	4th	0	2	1	-	-	101	46
Career total			490	220	89	38	63	32	1	1	643	291

National team
year	Games	Gates
1988	1	-
1989	6th	3
1990	9	4th
1991	2	1
1992	7th	6th
1993	7th	5
1994	12	5
1995	1	-
1996	-	-
1997	2	1
1998	6th	2
1999	2	-
2000	-	-
2001	-	-
2002	-	-
2003	-	-
2004	1	-
total	56	27

Others

Baggio is a supporter of the new religious movement Sōka Gakkai . He has seven siblings, his younger brother Eddy was also a professional footballer. Baggio is not related or related by marriage to the former Italian international Dino Baggio .

Web links

Commons : Roberto Baggio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Italian, English, Spanish)
• Player profile in the AC Milan Hall of Fame

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: Hallowed numbers on the back