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| Date of birth | 27 September 1953 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tripoli[1], Kingdom of Libya | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Central Defender, Full back | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | |||||||||
| 1971–1972 | Arona | 34 | (4) | |||||||||
| 1972–1973 | Varese | 34 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1973–1984 | Juventus | 283 | (9) | |||||||||
| 1984–1987 | Fiorentina | 70 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1987–1988 | Piacenza | 20 | (0) | |||||||||
| Total | 441 | (14) | ||||||||||
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| 1975–1984 | Italy | 71 | (1) | |||||||||
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| 2000–2006 | Italy U-21 | |||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Claudio Gentile (Italian pronunciation: [ˈklaudjo dʒenˈtile]; born in Libya, 27 September 1953[2]) is an Italian football coach and former defender of the 1970s and 1980s. Gentile appeared for Italy in two World Cup tournaments, including playing in the winning Italian team in the 1982 final. His club career was notably spent with Juventus for whom he made almost 300 league appearances, winning six national titles and two major European trophies.
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In 1972–73 he played in Serie B with Varese.[2]
He then moved to Juventus and first played for them in a Coppa Italia match against Ascoli Calcio on 29 August 1973, with his Serie A debut following on 2 December 1973 against Verona.[1] In all he played 414 senior matches for Juventus, including 283 in Serie A.[1] In over a decade in Turin, Gentile won two major European club competitions (1976-77 UEFA Cup and 1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup), six Serie A championships, and two Coppa Italias.[2]
In 1984 he moved to Fiorentina where he spent three further years in Serie A, and he then played a final season in Serie B with Piacenza before retiring.[2]
Gentile was capped on 71 occasions by Italy between 1975 and 1984.[3]
He man-marked Diego Maradona in a match at the 1982 World Cup, after which he famously quipped, "Football is not for ballerinas!"[4]
Gentile later coached the Italy national under-21 football team and he led them to victory in the 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.[5]
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