Claudio Gentile
Claudio Gentile ( born September 27, 1953 in Tripoli, Libya ) is a retired Italian footballer and current coach.
- 2.1 As a player
- 2.2 As a coach
Career
As a player
Claudio Gentile's career began in the youth department of FC Varese. In the 1971/72 season he played in Arona in Serie D. For the following season, he returned to Varese.
When he moved to Juventus in 1973, he was on his position as left or right full-back already a seasoned player. For years he was known for his level-headed, but consistent man coverage. Accordingly, great were his successes he achieved with the Turin club. Until his departure from Juventus in 1984, he had the white- black jersey worn a total of 414 times. For the 1984/85 season he moved to Fiorentina, where he played for three years. In 1987, he then went to Piacenza Calcio.
Legendary is still its use in the Football World Cup 1982, when Italy finally became world champion. At that time he played the most important tournament of his career: His close and very hard Marking turned it both Diego Maradona and Zico from later. Between 1974 and 1984 he played 71 times for the Italian national football team.
As a coach
After his playing career, Claudio Gentile began in 1992 initially as a club coach in Calcio Lecco, before 1998 FIGC moved and later assistant coach and coach of the U-20 national team was.
In July 2000, he was assistant coach Giovanni Trapattoni with the Italian national team.
On 12 October 2000 Gentile was hired as coach of the Italian U-21 national team. In the U-21 European Championship in Germany in 2004 his team became European champion, a little later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, his team won the bronze medal. After the U-21 European Championship in Portugal in 2006, already retired in Italy in the first round, the Treaty of Gentile was not renewed. His successor took the former star striker Pierluigi Casiraghi and Gianfranco Zola.
Achievements
As a player
- World Champion: 1982
- Italian Champion: 1974 /75 1976/77 1977 /78 1980/81 1981 /82 1983/84
- Italian Cup Winners: 1978/79, 1982/83
- UEFA Cup: 1976/77
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1983/84
As a coach
- U-21 European Championship: 2004
- Bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics