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Giovanni Trapattoni
Personal information
Date of birth	17 March 1939 (1939-03-17) (age 69)
Place of birth	Cusano Milanino, Italy
Playing position	Defender, Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Republic of Ireland (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1959–1971 1971–1972	Milan Varese Total	274 (3)1 010 (0)2 284 (3)
National team
1960–1964	Italy	017 (1)1
Teams managed
1974 1976 1976–1986 1986–1991 1991–1994 1994–1995 1995–1996 1996–1998 1998–2000 2000–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2008 2008–	Milan Milan Juventus Internazionale Juventus Bayern Munich Cagliari Bayern Munich Fiorentina Italy Benfica VfB Stuttgart Red Bull Salzburg Republic of Ireland
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Giovanni Trapattoni (born March 17, 1939) is an Italian football coach, considered the most successful club coach in the history of Italy,³and former player. He is the manager of the Republic of Ireland national team, also having coached Italy. He is also the only manager to have won all UEFA club competitions and the Intercontinental Cup. He achieved this with Juventus over his two spells with the club.

Playing career

Born in Cusano Milanino near Milan, Trapattoni had a successful career as a player with city giants A.C. Milan in the 1960s and early 1970s. Playing primarily as a defender and defensive midfielder, with the main task of passing the ball to more creative players such as Giovanni Lodetti and Gianni Rivera, he also played for the Italian national team, mostly as centre back with notable marking skills, appearing at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile.

After taking a break from the Italian giants, Trapattoni thought he could settle with a mid-table team for one last season instead of being at one club all his life, subsequently moving to A.S. Varese 1910 and, after a successful season with them, retired from professional football and took a job as a manager two years later.

Coaching career

Trapattoni began coaching at Milan as a youth team coach, before becoming caretaker coach. He was appointed first team coach in 1975. In 1976, he moved on to Italian giants Juventus, where he won all UEFA club competitions (European record) and, ten years later, went to Internazionale, being very successful with both sides. He returned to Juventus in 1991 before taking his first job outside Italy, as coach of FC Bayern Munich in 1994, and then from 1996 to 1998. He is well remembered by German fans for an emotional outburst in broken German during a press conference on 10 March 1998 ("Was erlauben Strunz?"..."Ich habe fertig!" − roughly How dare Strunz? … I have got finished) where he criticized the team's attitude ("Diese Spieler waren schwach wie eine Flasche leer!" − roughly Those players were weak like a bottle empty)⁴⁵(in the Neapolitan dialect of the Italian language Strunz means stronzo or jerk, and these interjections were very diffused in Italy in those years). He also coached Cagliari Calcio (1994-95) and Fiorentina (1998 to 2000, leading them to a UEFA Champions League place).

In July 2000 Trapattoni took charge of the Italian national team after the resignation of Dino Zoff. He led the team to the 2002 FIFA World Cup. In that tournament, after winning its first match against Ecuador, Italy's form dropped and they controversially lost to Croatia. They almost lost again to Mexico, with Alessandro Del Piero scoring a late equalizer. In the second round, Italy lost to South Korea, in a game that is remembered as being one of the biggest and most controversial upsets in FIFA World Cup history, due to the arbitration by Byron Moreno.

At the 2004 European Championship, Italy once again failed to impress, playing with poor defensive tactics. They drew with both Denmark and Sweden, leading to an unexpected early exit. Somewhat controversially, Sweden and Denmark drew 2-2 in their final group game, both teams knowing that a high scoring draw would eliminate Italy no matter what score the Italians achieved in their final game against Bulgaria. On 25 June 2004, Marcello Lippi was named as Trapattoni's replacement, as his contract ran out on 15 July 2004.

On 5 July 2004, Trapattoni was named as new coach of Portuguese League club Sport Lisboa e Benfica, which he led to win the 2005 league, the first in eleven years, and also to the cup final (which Benfica lost to Vitória de Setúbal). He resigned after the 2005 season, saying he wanted to be closer to his family (in the north of Italy) but returned to management in the German Bundesliga in the summer of 2005, by signing at VfB Stuttgart, with much hype about his appointment. However, during his 20 games at the helm, VfB produced poor results. Denmark internationals Jon Dahl Tomasson and Jesper Grønkjær openly criticized their coach, claiming he was afraid to attack. Trapattoni responded by dropping both players to the bench. With the atmosphere in the team worsening, he was sacked after just seven months, on 9 February 2006, reportedly for "not fulfilling the ambitions of the club". He was replaced as manager by Armin Veh.

In May 2006, FC Red Bull Salzburg announced it had signed Trapattoni as its new director of football, along with one of his former players, Lothar Matthäus, as coach. Trapattoni initially cast doubt on this report, claiming he had not signed any contract. But three days later, both he and Matthäus signed and made their hirings official. After their successful season of 2006–07, the club's board of directors unanimously decided to dismiss Matthäus, making Thorsten Fink Trapattoni's new assistant.

Over a club career spanning three decades, Trapattoni won ten league titles, a European Cup, a Cup Winners' Cup, three UEFA Cups, the Super Cup and four national cups (including two Italian Cups).

On 11 February 2008, Trapattoni "agreed in principle" to take over the Irish manager's job,⁶but finished the season with Red Bull before taking up the Irish position on 1 May. Former Ireland midfielder Liam Brady was expected to be part of the Italian's backroom staff,⁷while Marco Tardelli was confirmed as Trapattoni's assistant manager.⁸ Trapattoni signed Brady back in 1980 for Juventus from Arsenal for just over £500,000.

Red Bull Salzburg confirmed, on 13 February 2008, that at the end of the 2007-08 season, Trapattoni would be leaving the club to take over as the Republic of Ireland manager.⁹

Trapattoni's first game in charge, a friendly against Serbia on 24 May 2008, ended in a 1–1 draw. His second, another friendly, against Colombia five days later, meant his first victory with the national side, 1-0. This was followed by a 1–1 draw with Norway, his first competitive win against Georgia and a draw with Montengro in the 2010 World Cup qualifying stage.

Trapattoni's first defeat came in a friendly against Poland on 19 November 2008, a 2–3 loss at Croke Park.

Honours

One of the most celebrated managers in Football history, Trapattoni is the most successful manager in European competitions for clubs history with 7 titles in 8 finals, including the Intercontinental Cup final (mainly with Juventus).¹⁰ Alongside the German Udo Lattek he is the only coach to have won all three major European club titles. Also, he is the only one to have won all UEFA club competitions and the World Club title (all with the Old Lady), also having the record of UEFA Cup wins (3).

Player

• Milan:
  • Italian League: 1961-62, 1967-68
  • Italian Cup: 1966-67
  • European Cup: 1962-63, 1968-69
  • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1967-68
  • Intercontinental Cup: 1969

Manager

• Milan:
  • Italian Cup: Runner-up 1974-75

• Juventus:
  • Italian League: 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1985-86; Runner-up 1979-80, 1982-83, 1991-92, 1993-94
  • Italian Cup: 1978-79, 1982-83; Runner-up 1991-92
  • European Cup: 1984-85; Runner-up 1982-83
  • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1983-84
  • UEFA Cup: 1976-77, 1992-93
  • European Super Cup: 1984
  • Intercontinental Cup: 1985

• Internazionale:
  • Italian League: 1988-89
  • UEFA Cup: 1990-91

• Bayern Munich:
  • German League: 1996-97; Runner-up 1997-98
  • German Cup: 1997-98

• AC Fiorentina:
  • Italian Cup: Runner-up 1998-99

• S.L. Benfica:
  • Portuguese League: 2004-05
  • Portuguese Cup: Runner-up 2004-05

• FC Red Bull Salzburg:
  • Austrian League: 2006-07

Statistics

Manager

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
AC Milan		1974	1974
AC Milan		1976	1976
Juventus		1976	1986
Internazionale		1986	1991
Juventus		1991	1994
Bayern Munich		1994	1995
Cagliari		1995	1996
Bayern Munich		1996	1998
Fiorentina		1998	2000
Italy		2000	2004
Benfica		2004	2005
Stuttgart		2005	2006
Red Bull Salzburg		May 2006	April 2008
Republic of Ireland		May 2008	Present	7	3	1	3	42.86

See also

• List of UEFA club competition winning managers
• List of European Cup and Champions League winning managers
• List of UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winning managers
• List of UEFA Cup winning managers
• List of UEFA Super Cup winning managers

References

External links

• Trapattoni's German website (German)
• Irish fansite

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