Walter Zenga
| Walter Zenga | ||
 Walter Zenga 2016
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | April 28, 1960 | |
| place of birth | Milan , Italy | |
| size | 188 cm | |
| position | goal | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1977-1988 | Inter Milan | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1978-1979 | Salernitana Calcio | 3 (0) |
| 1979-1980 | Savona 1907 FBC | 23 (0) |
| 1980-1982 | SS Sambenedettese Calcio | 67 (0) |
| 1982-1994 | Inter Milan | 328 (0) |
| 1994-1996 | Sampdoria Genoa | 41 (0) |
| 1996-1997 | Calcio Padova | 21 (0) |
| 1997 | New England Revolution | 22 (0) |
| 1999 | New England Revolution | 25 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1984-1986 | Italy U21 | 15 (0) |
| 1985-1992 | Italy | 58 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1999 | New England Revolution | |
| 2000-2001 | Brera | |
| 2002-2003 | FC National Bucharest | |
| 2004-2005 | Steaua Bucharest | |
| 2005-2006 | FK Red Star Belgrade | |
| 2006 | Gaziantepspor | |
| 2007 | Al Ain Club | |
| 2007 | Dinamo Bucharest | |
| 2008-2009 | Calcio Catania | |
| 2009-2010 | US Palermo | |
| 2010 | al-Nasr Riyadh | |
| 2011-2013 | al-Nasr SC Dubai | |
| 2013-2014 | al-Jazira Club | |
| 2015 | Sampdoria Genoa | |
| 2015-2016 | Al-Shaab | |
| 2016 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | |
| 2017-2018 | FC Crotone | |
| 2018-2019 | FC Venice | |
| 2020– | Cagliari Calcio | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Walter Zenga (born April 28, 1960 in Milan ) is a former Italian soccer goalkeeper and current coach. He played for Inter Milan in the 1980s and 1990s, among others .
Career as a player
In the club
Zenga made his Serie A debut at the match Inter Milan against Sampdoria Genoa (1: 2) on September 11, 1983. In his professional football career, he was the first goalkeeper to be elected world goalkeeper of the year three times (1989, 1990, 1991).
In the national team
In the Italian national team between October 1986 and June 1992 he was active 58 times. His greatest success was 3rd place at the 1990 World Cup . At this tournament, he remained clean for 517 minutes, setting the record that is still valid in men's football today.
Career as a coach
Walter Zenga has been working as a football coach since the end of his career. He moved to Romania in 2002 , where he initially took over FC Național Bucharest for two years. After a place in midfield at the end of the 2002/03 season and reaching the Romanian Cup final (0-1 against Dinamo Bucharest ), however, he was dismissed after a false start in the following season in September 2003. It was followed by Steaua Bucharest in the 2004/05 season , where he had to leave early in May 2005 despite leading the table. He then trained FK Red Star Belgrade , with whom he won the 2006 double in Serbia . At the beginning of the 2006-2007 season he coached Gaziantepspor in Turkey, but moved to the United Arab Emirates after the first half of the season. From the beginning of 2007 Zenga trained the Al Ain Club there .
On September 5, 2007 he signed a two-year contract with Dinamo Bucharest , but had to resign on November 25, 2007. In April 2008, Zenga took over the post of coach at the Italian club Catania Calcio . In June 2009, the Sicilian local rival US Palermo announced that Zenga had signed a 2-year contract with the option of a third season with the Pink Blacks.
He spent the years 2010 to 2014 again on the Arabian Peninsula , where he trained al-Nasr in Saudi Arabia and the Al-Nasr Sports Club and the al-Jazira Club in the United Arab Emirates .
For the 2015/16 season , Zenga took over the Italian first division club Sampdoria Genua , but was released in November 2015 after a moderate start to the season. At the end of the month, Zenga found a new employer, he was hired again in the United Arab Emirates and coached Al-Shaab , bottom of the table in the UAE Arabian Gulf League , with which he signed a six-month contract. After nine defeats and only four points in eleven games, Zenga and Al-Shaab parted ways in February 2016. From July to November 2016, Zenga coached the English second division side Wolverhampton Wanderers . On December 8, 2017, he followed the retiring Davide Nicola as head coach of FC Crotone in the Italian Serie A .
successes
As a player
In the national team
In the club
Individual honors
- Italy's Footballer of the Year : 1987
- World Goalkeeper of the Year : 1989, 1990, 1991
As a trainer
With the club
- Serbian champion : 2005/06
- Serbian Cup Winner : 2005/06
Web links
- Walter Zenga in the database of weltfussball.de
- Walter Zenga on labtof.ro (Romanian)
- Trainer profile at tff.org the website of the Turkish Football Association (English)
- Trainer profile at mackolik.com (Turkish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Message from US Palermo of June 5, 2009 (Italian)
- ↑ Ha firmato un biennial con l'Al-Nasr
- ↑ Sampdoria Genoa brings Walter Zenga to nzz.ch on June 4, 2015, accessed on July 9, 2015
- ↑ Zenga at Sampdoria released on nzz.ch on November 10, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2015
- ↑ UFFICIALE: Al Shaab, Zenga nuovo tecnico. Ma al debutto è subito ko on tuttomercatoweb.com from December 1, 2015
- ↑ Zenga, altra avventura finita male: è divorzio dall'Al Shaab on goal.com from February 21, 2016
- ↑ Walter Zenga new coach of FC Crotone. In: westline.de. December 8, 2017, accessed December 13, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zenga, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian football goalkeeper and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |