Luigi Di Biagio
Luigi Di Biagio
Luigi Di Biagio ( born June 3, 1971 in Rome ) is a retired Italian footballer and current coach.
Career
In the club
The defensive midfielder Di Biagio began his professional career in the youth of Brescia Calcio. His debut in Serie A, he was wearing the jersey of Lazio, but he did not come out here on this debut, which is why he moved to the sequel to the Series B club AC Monza Brianza. After three seasons in which he could play in the root formation, he returned to Serie A for U.S. Foggia. This time it succeeded Di Biagio, to compete in the top league, thanks to his convincing performance, the top clubs in the league was aware of him and the midfielder joined the 1996/97 season for AS Roma. After four seasons with the jersey of the Roma, Di Biagio moved to Inter Milan. Again, he was able to prevail at first and then became part of the service providers to the Nerazzurri. For the 2003/04 season Di Biagio returned to his original club Brescia Calcio. For the season 2006/ 07 he left Brescia at the moment to play for amateur club La Storta in his hometown. However, in the winter break, he returned to the professional business back when he moved to relegation-threatened Ascoli Calcio, where he ended his active career in the summer of 2007
In the National Team
After he was appointed in 1993 by Arrigo Sacchi in the squad of the Italian national team, but was not used, Luigi Di Biagio debuted Azzurra against Slovakia in the Squadra on 28 January 1998. In the same year he became., Where he gained national coach Cesare Maldini in the Italian squad for the World Cup 1998 fame when he became the penalty shoot goalkeeper Fabien Barthez indeed outwitted in the quarter- final against hosts France and attracted the wrong way, but its hard shot only hit the crossbar. Thus Italy was eliminated from the tournament. Two years later he was in the Euro 2000 semi-final against the Netherlands again to the penalty takers, this time he met and Italy qualified for the final, where they defeated France by a golden goal 1-2. Even under coach Giovanni Trapattoni came Di Biagio at the Football World Cup 2002, where Italy already eliminated in the second round against South Korea to use.
As a coach
Since end of his career Luigi Di Biagio works as a youth coach at Roman Club La Storta Roma. Since July 2011, he coached the Italian U20 national team.
Achievements
- European runners-up: 2000