Marco Tardelli

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Marco Tardelli
Personal information
Full name	Marco Tardelli
Date of birth	September 24, 1954
Place of birth	Capanne di Careggine, Italy
Nickname	Schizzo
Position	coach / retired midfielder
Club information
Current club	?
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1972-1974 1974-1975 1975-1985 1985-1987 1987-1988	Pisa Como Juventus Internazionale St. Gallen
National team
1976- 1985	Italy	81 (6)
Teams managed
1988-1990 1990-93 1993-95 1995-98 1998-2000 2000-01 ? ? ?	Italy U-16 Italy U-21 (assistant) Como Cesena Italy U-21 Internazionale Bari Egypt Arezzo
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Marco Tardelli, (born September 24, 1954) is a former football player from Italy, and currently chairman of Juventus F.C.. He played defensive midfielder with Juventus and the Italian national team. He won the Football World Cup 1982 and was five-time Italian Serie A champion.

Contents 1 Career 2 National team 3 Coaching career 4 Honours as a player 5 Trivia 6 Notes 7 External links

[edit] Career

Tardelli was born at Capanne di Careggine, in the province of Lucca (Tuscany).

He started his career in the Italian Serie C with the club of Pisa. Two years later he played in Italian Serie B with the team of Como before joining Juventus in October 1975.

His players quality have been described as following:

Tardelli - at his peak one of the hardest men in European football - was a midfield workhouse renowned for his ferocious tackling. His commitment could not be questioned and he boasted a competitive streak second to none.[1]

He was defined by FIFA as "The most complete Italian Midfielder in history".

He won three European competitions : the UEFA Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Champions League (NB: it was actually the European Cup, a strictly cup format annual tournament for one entrant only of each European national league. It was not until years later that it was called "Champions League" with an altered section format and with more than one entrant for the main Europran nations) as well as five times the Italian Serie A championship and three Coppa Italia (Italian Cup).

He scored the decisive goal during the first leg of the UEFA Cup finale against Athletic Bilbao , allowing Juventus to gain this competition in 1977, his first and also the first European title for Juventus.

Tardelli played 376 games with Juventus and scored 51 goals.

[edit] National team

His international career started on April 7, 1976, with a game against Portugal. He played the Football World Cup 1978 and the 1980 European Football Championship. He performed especially well during the Football World Cup 1982 won by Italy, scoring one goal in the final against West Germany and another one earlier against Argentina. He is particularly remembered for his famous goal celebration in the final. With tears in his eyes, he sprinted towards the Italian bench, fists clenched in front of his chest, tears pouring down his face, screaming his name as he shook his head wildly.

He received 81 caps, his last one against Norway in September 1985.

Tardelli ended his player’s career in 1988. Since then he has managed several teams and was in charge of the Italian under-21 junior team.

[edit] Coaching career

Tardelli started his managing career as head coach of the Under 16 Italian national team in 1988, immediately after his retirement. Two years later, he moved as assistant coach of Cesare Maldini for the Under 21 team. In 1993 he was signed by Como of Serie C1, with he led to a Serie B promotion, but without being able to avoid its relegation the next year. In 1995 he then coached Cesena, another Serie B team.

In 1998 Tardelli was appointed as head coach of the Under 21 national team of Italy, winning the Youth European Championship one year later. In the 2000/2001, he left his office for Italy to become manager of Inter Milan, being then fired before the end of the season, after a serie of poor results (amongst them, a 6-0 defeat against AC Milan). He did not have much more luck in his next adventures, with Bari, Egypt national football team and Arezzo, being also fired by all these teams.

On June 15, 2006, Tardelli was appointed as member of the administrative council of his old club Juventus.

[edit] Honours as a player

• World champion in 1982 with Italian national team
• Italian Serie A champion in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982 and 1984 with Juventus
• UEFA Champions Cup in 1985 with Juventus
• UEFA Cup in 1977 with Juventus
• Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 with Juventus
• European SuperCup in 1984 with Juventus

[edit] Trivia

Tardelli had a notorious love affair with pornstar Moana Pozzi.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ [1]

[edit] External links

• (Italian) Tardelli's biography as coach until 1999

	Italy squad - 1986 World Cup
1 Galli | 2 Bergomi | 3 Cabrini | 4 Collovati | 5 Nela | 6 Scirea | 7 Tricella | 8 Vierchowod | 9 Ancelotti | 10 Bagni | 11 Baresi | 12 Tancredi | 13 De Napoli | 14 Di Gennaro | 15 Tardelli | 16 Conti | 17 Vialli | 18 Altobelli | 19 Galderisi | 20 Rossi | 21 Serena | 22 Zenga | Coach: Bearzot

	Italy squad - 1982 World Cup Champions (3rd Title)
1 Zoff | 2 Baresi | 3 Bergomi | 4 Cabrini | 5 Collovati | 6 Gentile | 7 Scirea | 8 Vierchowod | 9 Antognoni | 10 Dossena | 11 Marini | 12 Bordon | 13 Oriali | 14 Tardelli | 15 Causio | 16 Conti | 17 Massaro | 18 Altobelli | 19 Graziani | 20 Rossi | 21 Selvaggi | 22 Galli | Coach: Bearzot

	Italy squad - 1978 FIFA World Cup
1 Zoff | 2 Bellugi | 3 Cabrini | 4 Cuccureddu | 5 Gentile | 6 Maldera | 7 Manfredonia | 8 Scirea | 9 Antognoni | 10 Benetti | 11 Pecci | 12 Conti | 13 P. Sala | 14 Tardelli | 15 Zaccarelli | 16 Causio | 17 C. Sala | 18 Bettega | 19 Graziani | 20 Pulici | 21 Rossi | 22 Bordon | Coach: Bearzot