Gianluca Zambrotta

Gianluca Zambrotta

Gianluca Zambrotta ( born February 19, 1977 in Como) is an Italian football player and coach. He began his career as a right midfielder and can play on both the left and on the right side of defense.

Career

In the club

Zambrotta began his career in 1994 at Como Calcio in Serie B. He played at this time on the right side of midfield and was a regular player. When the team was relegated at the end of the 1996/97 season, he was bound by the AS Bari. In Serie A, he was achievers at Bari.

In 1999, he spent the equivalent of around 16 million euros to Juventus. As in 2002, the left-back Gianluca Pessotto had violated Zambrotta Marcello Lippi was retrained to full-back and was one of the world's best players at that position. With Juventus Zambrotta won the championship four times and twice the Italian Supercup. He also starred with Juventus in 2003 in the Champions League final, which they lost on penalties to AC Milan.

After seven years in Turin, he joined because the club was relegated to Serie B due to the Italian football scandal in 2005/ 06, in July 2006, with FC Barcelona. In 2008, he signed a four year contract with AC Milan, who paid nine million euros transfer fee to FC Barcelona. After his contract expires he left AC Milan for season 2011/12. After a year Vertragslosigkeit FC Chiasso in Switzerland undertook in July 2013 Zambrotta. He has been active as a player and as an assistant coach of Ernestino Ramella. After his release, he took over the team in late November 2013 as the head coach.

In the National Team

In 1999 he was first appointed vam then coach Dino Zoff in the national team. He made ​​his debut on 10 February 1999 against Norway.

In the Euro 2000 Zambrotta came with Italy to the final. In the semifinals he was after only half an hour the only red card of his professional career against the Netherlands. He participated in the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004 with Italy. At Euro 2004 he was elected despite the frühens leaving his team in the All- Star team.

With the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany was football champion Gianluca Zambrotta with Italy. In the quarter- final match against Ukraine, he scored a goal and had an assist. Due to its excellent performance of the Italians was elected to the All- Star team of the tournament. In the same year he was also nominated for the UEFA Team of the Year and the FIFPro World XI. Zambrotta Italy took part in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009, when Italy was eliminated in the first round. Even with the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa, the blow came in the first round. In both tournaments Zambrotta was used in all group matches. After the early exit of Italy at the World Cup he came again on 12 October 2010 at the European Championship qualifier against Serbia is used, which was canceled after six minutes due to rioting Serbian audience.

Achievements

As a national player

  • European runners-up: 2000
  • World Champion: 2006

With its clubs

  • UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999
  • Italian Champion: 2001 / 02, 2002/ 03, 2004 /05 * 2005/ 06 * 2010/11
  • Italian Super Cup winner: 2002, 2003
  • Spanish Supercup winner: 2006

* Disallowed under the Italian football scandal 2005/2006

Personal Awards

  • All- star team of Euro 2004
  • All- Star Team of the FIFA World Cup 2006
  • FIFPro World XI 2006
  • UEFA Team of the Year 2006
  • Ritter ( 2000) and Officer (2006) Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Calcio Como A.C. Milan 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2001–02 Serie A 2002–03 Serie A 2004–05 Serie A 2005–06 Serie A 2010–11 Serie A
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