Giovanni Trapattoni

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Giovanni Trapattoni (born March 17, 1939) is an Italian football coach, a former player and one of the previous coaches of the national team.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Player 1.2 Coach 2 Clubs/teams as coach 3 Clubs as player 4 Managerial Honours 4.1 AC Milan 4.2 Juventus 4.3 FC Internazionale 4.4 FC Bayern Munich 4.5 AC Fiorentina 4.6 SL Benfica

[edit] Biography

"Trap" has had a long and successful managerial career with many top-flight teams in Italy and also in other countries. He is known for his tendency to "lose the thread" when speaking to the press, generating senseless sentences, and he is often the butt of jokes because of this. In 1998, when managing Bayern Munich, he held a press conference in German; the conference made quite an impression because of his broken German, the anti-stereotype of an Italian berating Germans for being lazy, and his insistence on the name of Thomas Strunz, whose surname is a heavy insult in Italian.

[edit] Player

Trapattoni was born in Cusano Milanino, in the province of Milan.

He had a successful career as a player with AC Milan in the 1960s and early 1970s. Playing primarily as a defensive midfielder, his role was to release the to more creative players such as Giovanni Lodetti and Gianni Rivera.

[edit] Coach

He began coaching at the same club, moving on to Juventus in 1976 and from there to Inter Milan in 1986. Later Trapattoni was coach of Bayern Munich (1994-1995, 1996-1998), being remembered for an emotional outburst in broken German during a press conference on March 10, 1998 ("Was erlaube Strunz?"..."Ich habe fertig!") where he criticized the team's attitude ("Diese Spieler waren schwach wie eine Flasche leer!"). He also coached Cagliari and Fiorentina.

In July 2000 Trapattoni took charge of the Italian national team after the resignation of Dino Zoff. He led the team to the FIFA World Cup in 2002, leaving Roberto Baggio, the very famous and popular Italian striker legend out of Italy's squad. In that tournament, after winning its first match against Ecuador, Italy's form dropped and they lost to Croatia controversially (two of Italy goals were disallowed) and almost lost to Mexico until Alessandro Del Piero became a hero by equalizing. Thus, Italy went on to the second round. Italy was expected to win, but was eliminated by South Korea in one of the biggest upsets in the FIFA World Cup history. Though Italy lost controversially once again, Trapattoni was also blamed. After Christian Vieri scored one goal, the overjoyed Trapattoni subbed Del Piero off and replaced him with the more defensive Damiano Tommasi. At 2004 European Championship Italy once again failed to shine, having performed with dreaded defensive tactics. They drew to both Denmark and Sweden leading to an early exit. On June 25, 2004, Marcello Lippi was named as Trapattoni's successor, and took over once Trapattoni's contract ran out on July 15, 2004. On July 5, Trapattoni was named as new coach of Lisbon's SL Benfica which he led Benfica to win the Portuguese league the first time in ten years. He resigned after the 2005 season, and then returned to Germany with VfB Stuttgart, with much hype about his appointment. However , during his 20 games at the helm, Stuttgart showed poor form and drew an amazing 12 times, many of these draws 0-0 results. Denmark International Forwards Jon Dahl Tomasson and Jesper Grønkjær openly criticized their coach, claiming he was afraid to attack. Trapattoni responded by putting both on the bench, but was fired himself the very next day on 9 February 2006, based on "not fulfilling the ambitions of the club". He was replaced by Armin Veh.

Over the past 25 years, he has won nine league titles, a European Cup, a Cup Winners' Cup, three UEFA Cups, the Super Cup and two Italian Cups.

In May 2006, Red Bull Salzburg announced it had signed Trapattoni as its new sporting director, along with his former player Lothar Matthäus, as coach. Trapattoni initially cast doubt on this report almost immediately afterward, claiming he had not signed any contract. But three days later, both Trapattoni and Matthäus signed and made their hirings official.

[edit] Clubs/teams as coach

• 1974-1976 AC Milan
• 1976-1986 Juventus
• 1986-1991 Inter Milan
• 1991-1994 Juventus
• 1994-1995 Bayern Munich
• 1995-1996 Cagliari
• 1996-1998 Bayern Munich
• 1998-2000 Fiorentina
• 2000-2004 Italy
• 2004-2005 SL Benfica
• 2005-2006 Stuttgart

[edit] Clubs as player

• AC Milan

[edit] Managerial Honours

[edit] AC Milan

• Coppa Italia :
  • Runner-up: 1974-75.

[edit] Juventus

• Serie A :
  • Winner: 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1985-86.
  • Runner-up: 1979-80, 1982-83, 1991-92, 1993-94.

• Coppa Italia :
  • Winner: 1978-79, 1982-83.
  • Runner-up: 1991-92.

• European Cup :
  • Winner: 1984-85.
  • Runner-up: 1982-83.

• Cup Winners' Cup :
  • Winner: 1983-84.

• UEFA Cup :
  • Winner: 1976-77, 1992-93.

• European Super Cup :
  • Winner: 1984.

• Intercontinental Cup :
  • Winner: 1985.

[edit] FC Internazionale

• Serie A :
  • Winner: 1988-89.

• UEFA Cup :
  • Winner: 1990-91.

[edit] FC Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga :
  • Winner: 1996-97.
  • Runner-up: 1997-98.

• German Cup :
  • Winner: 1997-98.

[edit] AC Fiorentina

• Coppa Italia :
  • Runner-up: 1998-99.

[edit] SL Benfica

• SuperLiga :
  • Winner: 2004-05.

• Taça de Portugal :
  • Runner-up: 2004-05.

(German)

Preceded by Joe Fagan	European Cup Winning Coach 1984-85	Succeeded by Emerich Jenei
Preceded by Bob Paisley	UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1976-77	Succeeded by Kees Rijvers
Preceded by Dino Zoff	UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1990-91	Succeeded by Louis van Gaal
Preceded by Louis van Gaal	UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1992-93	Succeeded by Giampiero Marini
Preceded by Dino Zoff	Italy managers 2000 - 2004	Succeeded by Marcello Lippi

	Italy squad - 1962 FIFA World Cup
1 Buffon | 2 Losi | 3 Radice | 4 Salvadore | 5 Maldini | 6 Trapattoni | 7 Mora | 8 Maschio | 9 Altafini | 10 Sivori | 11 Menichelli | 12 Mattrel | 13 Albertosi | 14 Rivera | 15 Sormani | 16 Robotti | 17 Pascutti | 18 David | 19 Janich | 20 Tumburus | 21 Ferrini | 22 Bulgarelli | Coach: Mazza / Ferrari

	Italy squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 Buffon | 2 Panucci | 3 Maldini | 4 Coco | 5 Cannavaro | 6 Zanetti | 7 Del Piero | 8 Gattuso | 9 Inzaghi | 10 Totti | 11 Doni | 12 Abbiati | 13 Nesta | 14 Di Biagio | 15 Iuliano | 16 Di Livio | 17 Tommasi | 18 Delvecchio | 19 Zambrotta | 20 Montella | 21 Vieri | 22 Toldo | 23 Materazzi | Coach: Trapattoni