Francesco Toldo
Francesco Toldo ( born December 2, 1971 in Padua, Italy ) is a retired Italian footballer.
Skills
Toldo is very responsive, strong high balls and he is also able to "read" a game. He played as a goalkeeper for the coaches Trapattoni, Terim, Zaccheroni or Cúper. 72 penalties he could hold in his career ten.
Career
In the club
The football games began Francesco Toldo in youth as a right defender. At 13, his coach discovered his skills as a goalkeeper. After that, he never changed his position. At age 17, he began his career at AC Milan, with whom he, however, denied not a game. At the beginning of his professional career so he ended up provisionally at rather weak teams (Trento Calcio and Ravenna Calcio ).
In 1993 he then moved to Fiorentina, where he became a regular keeper and won with this club twice won the Coppa Italia and took part in the UEFA Champions League in part. When Florence had relegated, he moved in 2001 - also because of his strong performances at the European Championships 2000 - for 26.5 million euros to Inter Milan.
In this club he spent four years as the first goalkeeper before he in a friendly match tour of Inter Milan in the summer of 2005, not more regularly came into use because of its non-participation and was replaced by Júlio César. In February 2006, he won his jersey with the number 1 back, extended his contract with Inter until 2009 and was rumored to Palermo, Milan and Florence courted. Since he was able to record only a few missions at Inter in the season 2006/ 07, Toldo strove for a change, which for lack of buyers failed to materialize. In March 2009, he extended with 37 years of his contract with Inter Milan until 2011.
July 1, 2010 Toldo ended his active career as a professional footballer.
Goal against Juve
In the season 2002/ 03 he scored in the match Inter Milan against Juventus in the running game out a hit to 1:1. However, could even slow motion pictures do not clearly clarify whether he or Christian Vieri scored the goal. In addition, the scene was controversial because of a complaint tackle at the Turin goalkeeper.
In the National Team
His debut in the Italian national team, he was on 8 October 1995, when he came after ten minutes into the game, because Luca Bucci had seen the red card. Toldo was doing the player of the day.
After goalkeeper of Italy he was not, he could never prevail against its competitors such as Gianluigi Buffon, Peruzzi or Pagliuca, he resigned after the 2004 European Football Championship back from the national team.
Only at the European Football Championship 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands, he held this position because goalkeeper Buffon failed because of a hand fracture. In this tournament, he grew especially in the semi-final against the Netherlands beyond itself, as he held three penalties and played a key role in ensuring that Italy in the finals. In this finale however, he was no longer in the form of the semi-final, which also it was that he got a bloody nose for a goal tumult outside his gate, in any case could him the opposing striker Sylvain Wiltord, overcome from a very acute angle, thereby France nor the extension reached. Nevertheless, he was elected to the All-Star team for the European Championships later.
Achievements
As a national player
- U-21 European Championship: 1994
- European runners-up: 2000
With its clubs
- Champions League winner: 2009/10
- Italian Champion: 2006 *, 2006/ 07, 2007/ 08, 2008/ 09, 2009/10
- Italian Cup Winners: 1995/96, 2000/ 01, 2004 / 05, 2005/ 06, 2009/10
- Italian Super Cup winner: 1996, 2005, 2006, 2008
- Italian Serie B champions: 1993/94
* Awarded as a result of the Italian football scandal 2005/2006
Individual Achievements / Honors
- Best Goalkeeper Serie A: 2000
- Appointment to the All- Star team Euro 2000