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Also known as Franchino Baresi

Italian association football player

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Franco Baresi is an Italian former association football player and coach. Born on May 8, 1960, in Travagliato, Brescia, Italy, he played as a defender and sweeper. His professional career spanned from 1977 to 1997. He was a member of AC Milan, the Italy men's national association football team, and the Italy national under-21 football team. Baresi also served as a coach for AC Milan.

He represented Italy in the 1982, 1990, and 1994 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1984 Summer Olympics. Standing 176 centimeters tall and weighing 70 kilograms, Baresi has a sibling named Giuseppe Baresi and a relative named Regina Baresi.

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Acting · Travagliato, Brescia, Italy

Franchino Baresi OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko baˈreːzi; -eːsi]; 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 AC Milan, captaining the club for 15 seasons. He is considered to be one of the best defenders of all-time. He was ranked 19th…

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
202
Total plays
764

Real Name: Francois Zoontjes Started in 1989 and get his first residential at Kadance 1991 (Tilburg) He had in the past years many residentials like Goldfinger, Club X, The Limit, Zino. Nowadays he played on many festivals in the Netherlands and Belgium. Francois Zoontjes makes music solo under the aliases: DJ Francois, DJ F, SAAS and Franco Baresi and makes music in the groups: Public Domain, Gabbaheads, Sons Of Hardcorps, DJ Francois & Jeremy, Babylon, C. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/fr

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Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
_Retired Soccer
Position
Centre-Back
Nationality
Italy

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Franco
Family name
Baresi
Gender
male
Citizenship
Italy
Place of birth
Travagliato
Languages spoken
Italian
Participant in
1982 FIFA World Cup
Position played
sweeper
Country for sport
Italy
Mass
70
Image
Franco Baresi 2012.jpg
Height
176
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date of birth
1960-05-08
Commons category
Franco Baresi
coach of sports team
AC Milan
end of work period
1997-00-00
start of work period
1977-00-00
number of matches played/races/starts
4
total goals in career
0
birth name
Franchino Baresi
name in native language
Franco Baresi
advertises
Gatorade
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Encyclopedic overview

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Franchino Baresi ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko baˈreːzi; -eːsi]; 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 AC Milan, captaining the club for 15 seasons. Widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time, he was ranked 19th in World Soccer magazine's list of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century. With Milan, he won three European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, six Serie A trophies, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, two European Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups, as well as a World Cup with Italy.

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