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Franco Baresi

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1960 (63 years old)

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Travagliato, Italy

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1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)

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70 kg

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Franco Baresi (born 8 May 1960) is an Italian football youth team coach and a former player and manager. He mainly played as a sweeper or as a central defender, and spent his entire 20-year career with Serie A club Milan, captaining the club for 15 seasons. He is considered one of the greatest defenders of all-time and was ranked 19th in World Soccer magazine's list of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century. With Milan, he won three UEFA Champions League titles, six Serie A titles, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, two European Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups.

With the Italy national team, he was a member of the Italian squad that won the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He also played in the 1990 World Cup, where he was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Star Team, finishing third in the competition. At the 1994 World Cup, he was named Italy's captain and was an integral part of the squad that reached the final, although he would miss a penalty in the resulting shoot-out as Brazil lifted the trophy. Baresi also represented Italy at two UEFA European Championships, in 1980 and 1988, and at the 1984 Olympics, reaching the semi-finals on each occasion.

The younger brother of former footballer Giuseppe Baresi, after joining the Milan senior team as a youngster, Franco Baresi was initially nicknamed "Piscinin", Milanese for "little one". Due to his skill and success, he was later known as "Kaiser Franz", a reference to fellow sweeper Franz Beckenbauer. In 1999, he was voted Milan's Player of the Century. After his final season at Milan in 1997, the club retired Baresi's shirt number 6. He was named by Pelé one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at the FIFA centenary awards ceremony in 2004. Baresi was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame in 2013.


Career Honours

Serie A
1995-1996

Milan

Supercoppa Italiana
1994

Italy

UEFA Super Cup
1994

Italy

Serie A
1993-1994

Italy

UEFA Champions League
1993-1994

Italy

Supercoppa Italiana
1993

Italy

Serie A
1992-1993

Italy

Supercoppa Italiana
1992

Italy

Serie A
1991-1992

Italy

UEFA Super Cup
1990

Italy

FIFA Club World Cup
1990

Italy

UEFA Champions League
1989-1990

Italy

FIFA Club World Cup
1989

Italy

UEFA Champions League
1988-1989

Italy

Supercoppa Italiana
1988

Italy

Serie A
1987-1988

Italy

FIFA World Cup
1982

Italy

Serie A
1978-1979

Milan


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Former Youth Teams

1972-1977


Former Senior Teams

1977-1997

1982-1994


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