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Franco Baresi
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Personal information |
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Date of birth |
May 8, 1960
(1960-05-08) (age 49) |
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Place of birth |
Travagliato (Brescia), Italy |
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Height |
1.76 m
(5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
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Playing position |
Sweeper (Retired) |
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Youth career |
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Milan |
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Senior career* |
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Years |
Team |
Apps† |
(Gls)† |
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1977–1997 |
Milan |
531 |
(16) |
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National team |
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1982–1994 |
Italy |
81 |
(1) |
*
Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league
only.
† Appearances (Goals).
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Franco Baresi (born May 8, 1960 in Travagliato, province of
Brescia) is an Italian youth
team coach and
former football defender with Milan, acknowledged as
one of the greatest defenders ever to play the game. Baresi was
colloquially called "piscinin", Milanese dialect for "little
one".
He is also the younger brother of Internazionale
assistant manager Giuseppe Baresi. Hoping Franco could
play with him in the nerazzurri; Giuseppe brought him for
a trial in Inter's youth team, but Franco was rejected. Despite
this set-back, he didn't give up and decided to try out for
arch-rivals Milan,
where he was accepted.[1]
Playing
career
Club
Baresi led the Milan team and its defence for the best part of a
decade; a period during which Milan's defence was considered by
many observers to be one of the best back fours in the history of
football, consisting of Baresi, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta and Mauro Tassotti.
He is also one of the few players who spent his entire career at one
club, Milan, for
whom he played 532 games, scoring 16 goals.
He retired from playing in 1997 aged 37. With Milan, Baresi won
six scudetti (Serie
A league titles) and three European Cups. He mentored
defensive partner Paolo Maldini in his later years, whose
career has followed a similar path.
His #6 jersey was retired by the club, a rarity for Italian
football.
International
Baresi played in two World Cups for
Italy. Baresi was part of
the 1982 World Cup squad in Spain aged 22 as substitute of another
great defender, Gaetano Scirea, but didn't play, just
like in the 1980 European Football Championship, where
he was called along with his brother Giuseppe.
His international debut came later that year in a match against Romania. He also missed
the 1986 tournament and made his World Cup debut in 1990 when Italy were the hosts. The Azzurri lost to Argentina in the
semi-finals, but went on to beat England in the third
place play off.
He was rather unlucky to have been playing at a time when Scirea
was still active in the Italian National Team as both of them were
world class defenders and legends in the game, hence his few caps
which most were gained when Scirea had retired from the Azzuri.
In the 1994 World Cup he was one step
closer to lifting the trophy, losing to Brazil in the final. He
missed the first penalty in the shootout after the 0-0 full-time and
extra-time score. Until this, he was being a hero: he missed four
matches after being injured in Italy's group match against Norway. He underwent
emergency surgery and returned to captain the team three weeks
later in the final, where he made many important tackles and
interceptions. Romário,
who didn't play his best in the decision due to what he said to be
"The most ruthless monitoring of my entire career".[1]
He was also a member of the Italian squad that finished fourth
at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.[2]
Coaching
career
After a short spell as Director of Football at Fulham, Baresi returned
to Milan as a youth team coach in 2002. He was appointed head coach
of AC Milan's Primavera Under-20 squad. In 2006, he was
moved by the club to coach the Berretti Under-19 squad,
with his former fellow Filippo Galli replacing him at the helm
of the Primavera squad. He retired from coaching and was replaced
by Roberto Bertuzzo.
Honours
On March 4, 2004, at a gala ceremony in London, to mark the
100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
(FIFA), the international governing body of football revealed the FIFA 100. The list contains choice of the
"greatest living footballers", Baresi was one of many from the
legendary Milan teams of the 1990s to be included.
Club
- AC Milan
- European Cup:
1989, 1990, 1994 (now called: UEFA Champions League).
- Intercontinental Cup:
1989, 1990.
- European Supercup: 1989, 1990,1994.
- Italian
Championship:1979, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996.
- Italian Super Cup: 1988, 1992,
1993, 1994.
- Mitropa Cup:
1982
- Italy:
Individual
honours
- 1989
- 1990
- Top Scorer Italian Cup : (4 goals) Total (15 goals)
Italian Cup.
- Italian League The Best
Player of the Year.
- Best Silver Player World of the Year IFFHS : 1989
- 1999
- Player of AC Milan of the Century Club.
- 2004
- Named in FIFA 100
- Named Player of Italy of the Century XX by FIGC
Statistics
References
See also
| Persondata |
| NAME |
Baresi, Franceschino |
| ALTERNATIVE
NAMES |
Baresi, Franco |
| SHORT
DESCRIPTION |
Italian footballer |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
May 8, 1960 (1960-05-08) (age 49) |
| PLACE OF
BIRTH |
Travagliato (BS), Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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| PLACE OF
DEATH |
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