Carmel Busuttil

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Personal information
Carmel Busuttil
Full name	Carmel Busuttil
Date of birth	February 29, 1964 (1964-02-29) (age 44)
Place of birth	Malta
Playing position	Manager (former Midfielder)
Club information
Current club	Pietà Hotspurs
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1979–1987 1987–1988 1988–1994 1994–2001	Rabat Ajax Nuova Verbania KRC Genk Sliema Wanderers	106 (47) 20 (8) 166 (45) 143 (64)
National team²
1982–2001	Malta	111 (23)
Teams managed
	Santa Luċija Net Stars Pietà Hotspurs
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 29, 2007). ² National team caps and goals correct as of March 29, 2007). * Appearances (Goals)

Carmel Busuttil (born February 29, 1964 in Ir-Rabat - Malta) was one of Malta's most experienced football players. He started his career with Rabat Ajax and won 2 titles there. He spent 6 years playing for Belgian Club FC KRC Genk (322), four of them as captain, and finishing as the club's top scorer for three seasons. In 1994 he returned to play for the Maltese club Sliema Wanderers. He was capped 113 times for the Malta national football team and is their top scorer with 23 goals.

He is known as 'Il-Bużu', an abbreviation of his surname. After he hung up his boots he was football coach at a couple of respected Maltese private schools, most notably St. Michael's Foundation for Education. He then formed his own youth training academy, The Buzu football school. In November 2003, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of UEFA, he was selected as the Golden Player by the Malta Football Association as the most outstanding player of Malta in the last 50 years.

He is presently the Coach of Maltese Football League side Pietà Hotspurs, but has come under criticism in recent times for producing some unconvincing results.

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UEFA.com's article on Malta's football player

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Malta national football team – Managers

Griffiths (1957–61) • Borg (1961–64) • Bedl (1966) • Bedl & Formosa (1966) • Attard (1969) • Cuschieri (1970) • Borg (1970–71) • Formosa (1971–73) • Scerri (1973) • Polverini (1974–76) • Calleja (1976–78) • Scerri (1978–83) • Dobrev (1984–87) • Heese (1988–91) • Psaila (1991–93) • Ghedin (1993–95) • Gatt (1996) • Kosanović (1996–97) • Ilić (1997–2001) • Held (2001–03) • Heese & Busuttil (2003–05) • Heese (2005) • Fitzel (2006–)