Fabrizio Ravanelli
Fabrizio Ravanelli 2012
Fabrizio Ravanelli ( born December 11, 1968 in Perugia) is an Italian football coach and former player. He played during his playing career for more than half a dozen European teams, including Juventus, Middlesbrough FC, Olympique Marseille, Lazio and Derby County. Because of the early age white-gray Hair color Ravanelli was known most of his career as " la penna bianca " ("The White Feather ").
- 3.1 As a player
Playing career
In the club
Fabrizio Ravanelli began his playing career at AC Perugia, the club of his hometown. After further positions he achieved his breakthrough in the 1991/92 season at the AC Reggiana in the series as early as next season he played for Italian giants Juventus, where he along with Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Baggio and Alessandro Del Piero a feared forward line was formed.
For the 1994/95 season Marcello Lippi was followed by Giovanni Trapattoni as coach at Juventus. Ravanelli played under Lippi's leadership one of the best seasons of his career. He scored a total of 53 inserts 30 goals and was instrumental in winning the league title 23 of the Turin and the Coppa Italia. On September 27, 1994, he scored in a 5-1 away victory against CSKA Sofia in the first round of the UEFA Cup all five hits; Juventus had to get into the final two games of the AC Parma defeated.
In 1996 he won the people of Turin, the UEFA Champions League. In the final against Ajax Amsterdam, which ended with a 4-2 win on penalties, he scored the intermediate 1-0 in the twelfth minutes.
At the end of the season followed by 68 goals in 160 appearances for the Bianconeri to say goodbye to Juventus, who transferred him to the Premier League club Middlesbrough FC in England. Even against Liverpool in his first league game get him three hits. Although Ravanelli was one of the best scorers in the league, he rose with Middlesbrough in his first year in the First Division from and made off with constant complaints about the training, the training facilities and the city with fellow players and fans alike unpopular. Nevertheless, he ran in the 1997/98 season to first in the second English league, but moved in October 1997 to the French first division club Olympique Marseille, where he was under contract two years.
After a year and half of Intermezzo from January 2000 to the summer of 2001 at Lazio, where he namely in the 2000/01 season his second Scudetto and in turn could Coppa Italia win, but mostly was only reserve players who joined Ravanelli 2001 again to England and ran Derby County on. There he rose again from the first year of the Premier League. After another year in the second division Ravanelli moving in 2003 to the Scottish first division club Dundee FC, but for whom he played for a short time.
In the season 2004/ 05 he finally went back to his hometown club for AC Perugia. After the club had also thanks to its nine hit scored finished third in Serie B, Perugia lost the ascent games against FC Turin. Later, the license revocation followed due to financial problems and relegation related. Fabrizio Ravanelli ended his career after this season.
In the National Team
Fabrizio Ravanelli debuted on March 25, 1995 in a 4-1 win against Estonia in the national team. He stood in the Azzurri squad at the European Championships in England in 1996, but was eliminated after the group stage in Italy. For the 1998 World Cup in France, he was not nominated. Thus, the 1-0 win against Sweden on June 2, 1998 was the last of his 22 international matches, in which a total of eight goals get him.
Coaching career
From July 2011 to June 2013 Fabrizio Ravanelli worked as a youth coach at Juventus. For the 2013/14 season, the French first division side AC Ajaccio him committed as a coach, but after only twelve point games released him prematurely because of lack of success.
Achievements
As a player
- Champions League: 1995 /96 ( with Juventus )
- UEFA Cup: 1992 /93 ( with Juventus )
- Italian Championship: 1994 /95 ( with Juventus ) - 1999 /2000 ( with Lazio Rome)
- Coppa Italia: 1994 /95 ( with Juventus ) - 1999 /2000 ( with Lazio Rome)
- Italian Super Cup: 1995 ( with Juventus )