Giovanni Trapattoni

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Giovanni Trapattoni
Personal information
Full name	Giovanni Trapattoni
Date of birth	March 17, 1939 (age 68)
Place of birth	Cusano Milanino, Italy
Nickname	Trap
Playing position	Manager (former defender)
Club information
Current club	Red Bull Salzburg
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1959-1971 1971-1972	AC Milan Varese	274 (3)[1]
Teams managed
1974, 1975-1976 1976-1986 1986-1991 1991-1994 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1998 1998-2000 2000-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-	AC Milan Juventus Inter Milan Juventus FC Bayern Munich Cagliari FC Bayern Munich Fiorentina Italy SL Benfica VfB Stuttgart Red Bull Salzburg
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. He is a former player and coach of the Italian national team, currently in charge with Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg alongside Lothar Matthäus. Their likely league title in May 2007 will place Trapattoni alongside Ernst Happel in winning the domestic league titles of four different countries.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Player 1.2 Coach 2 Managerial honours 2.1 AC Milan 2.2 Juventus 2.3 FC Internazionale 2.4 FC Bayern Munich 2.5 AC Fiorentina 2.6 SL Benfica 3 References

[edit] Career

[edit] Player

Trapattoni was born in Cusano Milanino, in the province of Milan.

He had a successful career as a player with AC Milan in the 1960s and early 1970s. Playing primarily as a defender and defensive midfielder with the goal to pass the ball to more creative players such as Giovanni Lodetti and Gianni Rivera, he played also for the Italian team, mostly as centre back with notable marking skills. He retired in 1971 after a season with Varese.

[edit] Coach

He began coaching at A.C. Milan, first as youth coach, then as caretaker and replacement for Cesare Maldini in 1974, and again as first team coach in 1975. He then moved on to Juventus in 1976 and from there to Inter Milan in 1986, obtaining great successes at 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 March 10, 1998 ("Was erlaube Strunz?"..."Ich habe fertig!") where he criticized the team's attitude ("Diese Spieler waren schwach wie eine Flasche leer!"). He also coached Cagliari (1995) and Fiorentina (1998 to 2000, leading it to secure 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 lost to Croatia controversially and almost lost to Mexico, with Alessandro Del Piero scoring the equaliser goal. In the second round, Italy was expected to easily defeat South Korea, but was however defeated in one of the biggest upsets in the FIFA World Cup history.

At 2004 European Championship Italy once again failed to shine, having performed with dreaded defensive tactics. They drew to both Denmark and Sweden leading to an early exit. On June 25, 2004, Marcello Lippi was named as Trapattoni's successor, and took over once Trapattoni's contract ran out on July 15, 2004.

On July 5, Trapattoni was named as new coach of Lisbon's SL Benfica whom he led to win the Portuguese league for the first time in ten years. He resigned after the 2005 season, and then returned to Germany with VfB Stuttgart, with much hype about his appointment. However, during his 20 games at the helm, Stuttgart showed poor form with 12 draws, many of these as 0-0 results. Denmark international forwards Jon Dahl Tomasson and Jesper Grønkjær openly criticized their coach, claiming he was afraid to attack. Trapattoni responded by putting both on the bench, but was fired himself the very next day on 9 February 2006, based on "not fulfilling the ambitions of the club". He was replaced by Armin Veh.

Over the past 25 years, he has won nine league titles, a European Cup, a Cup Winners' Cup, three UEFA Cups, the Super Cup and two Italian Cups.

In May 2006, FC Red Bull Salzburg announced it had signed Trapattoni as its new sporting director, along with his former player Lothar Matthäus, as coach. Trapattoni initially cast doubt on this report almost immediately afterward, claiming he had not signed any contract. But three days later, both Trapattoni and Matthäus signed and made their hirings official.

[edit] Managerial honours

[edit] AC Milan

• Coppa Italia :
  • Runner-up: 1974-75.

[edit] Juventus

• Serie A :
  • Winner: 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1985-86.
  • Runner-up: 1979-80, 1982-83, 1991-92, 1993-94.

• Coppa Italia :
  • Winner: 1978-79, 1982-83.
  • Runner-up: 1991-92.

• European Cup :
  • Winner: 1984-85.
  • Runner-up: 1982-83.

• Cup Winners' Cup :
  • Winner: 1983-84.

• UEFA Cup :
  • Winner: 1976-77, 1992-93.

• European Super Cup :
  • Winner: 1984.

• Intercontinental Cup :
  • Winner: 1985.

[edit] FC Internazionale

• Serie A :
  • Winner: 1988-89.

• UEFA Cup :
  • Winner: 1990-91.

[edit] FC Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga :
  • Winner: 1996-97.
  • Runner-up: 1997-98.

• German Cup :
  • Winner: 1997-98.

[edit] AC Fiorentina

• Coppa Italia :
  • Runner-up: 1998-99.

[edit] SL Benfica

• SuperLiga :
  • Winner: 2004-05.

• Taça de Portugal :
  • Runner-up: 2004-05.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} ACMilan.com
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   Preceded by Joe Fagan	European Cup Winning Coach 1984-1985	Succeeded by Emerich Jenei
   Preceded by Bob Paisley	UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1976-1977	Succeeded by Kees Rijvers
   Preceded by Dino Zoff	UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1990-1991	Succeeded by Louis van Gaal
   Preceded by Louis van Gaal	UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1992-1993	Succeeded by Giampiero Marini
   Preceded by Dino Zoff	Italy managers 2000-2004	Succeeded by Marcello Lippi
   Preceded by José Antonio Camacho	SL Benfica managers 2004-2005	Succeeded by Ronald Koeman

   
   

   	Italy squad - 1962 FIFA World Cup
   1 Buffon | 2 Losi | 3 Radice | 4 Salvadore | 5 Maldini | 6 Trapattoni | 7 Mora | 8 Maschio | 9 Altafini | 10 Sivori | 11 Menichelli | 12 Mattrel | 13 Albertosi | 14 Rivera | 15 Sormani | 16 Robotti | 17 Pascutti | 18 David | 19 Janich | 20 Tumburus | 21 Ferrini | 22 Bulgarelli | Coach: Mazza / Ferrari

   	Italy squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
   1 Buffon | 2 Panucci | 3 Maldini | 4 Coco | 5 Cannavaro | 6 Zanetti | 7 Del Piero | 8 Gattuso | 9 Inzaghi | 10 Totti | 11 Doni | 12 Abbiati | 13 Nesta | 14 Di Biagio | 15 Iuliano | 16 Di Livio | 17 Tommasi | 18 Delvecchio | 19 Zambrotta | 20 Montella | 21 Vieri | 22 Toldo | 23 Materazzi | Coach: Trapattoni

   FC Red Bull Salzburg - Current Squad
   1 Ochs | 2 Bodnár | 3 Dudić | 4 Linke | 5 Carboni | 6 Kovač | 7 Zickler | 8 Alessandro Santos | 9 Lokvenc | 11 Ježek | 13 Tiffert | 15 Knavs | 16 Piták | 17 Miyamoto | 18 Meyer | 19 Vonlanthen | 20 Steinhöfer | 21 Janko | 22 Arzberger | 24 Orosz | 27 Janočko | 28 Aufhauser | 30 Özcan | 31 Vargas | 33 Winklhofer | Joint Coaches: Matthäus & Trapattoni