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Giovanni Trapattoni

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Giovanni Trapattoni

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Italian association football player and manager

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Giovanni Trapattoni is an Italian football player and manager who has been involved in the sport professionally. He is notable for his career in association football, one of the world's most popular sports.

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Giovanni Trapattoni, born in Cusano Milanino, Italy on 17 March 1939, is one of the world's leading coaches in association football. He had a successful playing career as a defender, with AC Milan, Varese and Italy. He is considered the most successful ever coach at club level in Italy, having managed both AC and Inter Milan, and the celebrated Juventus team of the early 1980's. He has won ten league titles, a European Cup, a Cup Winners' Cup and three UEFA Cups. <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Sport
Soccer
Team
_Retired Soccer
Position
Centre-Back
Nationality
Italy

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Giovanni
Gender
male
Citizenship
Italy
Place of birth
Cusano Milanino
Languages spoken
Italian
Participant in
UEFA Euro 2012
Position played
midfielder
Country for sport
Italy
Mass
73
Image
FIFA WC-qualification 2014 - Austria vs Ireland 2013-09-10 - Giovanni Trapattoni 05.JPG
Height
175
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Giovanni Trapattoni
date of birth
1939-03-17
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Giovanni Trapattoni
coach of sports team
AC Milan
number of matches played/races/starts
3
total goals in career
1
name in native language
Giovanni Trapattoni
nickname
Il Trap
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Giovanni Trapattoni ( Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni trapatˈtoːni]; born 17 March 1939), popularly nicknamed "Trap", is an Italian former football manager and player, considered the most successful club coach in Italian football.

A former defensive midfielder, as a player he spent almost his entire club career with AC Milan, where he won two Serie A league titles (1961–62 and 1967–68), and two European Cups, in 1962–63 and 1968–69. Internationally, he played for Italy, earning 17 caps and being part of the squad at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile.

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