Arrigo sacchi gianni rivera
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If there was any team that represented Italian football and took it to heights never seen before, it would be none other than our beloved AC Milan.
If anything Milan were the first team to bring European honours home and spark a tactical revolution in the form of Catenaccio that began Italian football’s dominance in the 60’s with the Grande Inter side and Nereo Rocco’s Rossoneri side.
However, there came a time when Catenaccio had run its course and Italian football was waning. Milan had undergone a takeover from media mogul Silvio Berlusconi and he wanted to bring success to the red and black of Milan.
After a shock defeat to Parma over two legs in the cup which in the midst of a very turbulent period in the 1980s – a decade which saw Milan relegated twice – Berlusconi appointed Arrigo Sacchi as the coach of Milan.
It shocked everyone in the press as Sacchi had no great prior experience as a player or a coach, to which he famously retorted: “I never knew to be a jockey you needed to be a horse.”
Sacchi was hugely influenced by Rinus Michel’s and Johan Cruyff’s passing football as well as the great Brazilian teams over the years. He wanted his teams not just to win but to entertain the fans, which was against the grain of Italian football in the 80’s – a style immersed
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Baggio, Sacchi and Rivera set to join Italian federation
August 3 – Roberto Baggio (pictured), one of Italy’s finest ever players, is set to return to football, joining Italy’s football federation (FIGC) after the national team’s disastrous exit from the World Cup.
Along with Baggio two other Italian football legends are set to join the FIGC.
Former Italy coach Arrigo Sacchi, 64, will coordinate the youth national teams, while Gianni Rivera, the first Italian player to win the “Ballon d’Or” or European Footballer of the Year trophy, will preside over the teaching and youth sector of the federation.
“I have said I am fully available to fill the role of President of the technical sector,” Baggio said, adding that he would have to wait for a FIGC board meeting tomorrow for his nomination to become official.
Baggio, 43, retired from football in 2004 after playing for Fiorentina, Juventus and AC Milan and starring for Italy in three World Cups, but leaving each one empty-handed, including at the United States in 1994 when his missed penalty in the shoot-out in the final against Brazil cost them the Cup.
After reigning champions Italy were embarrassingly bundled out of the South African tournament this summer, Baggio
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Gianni Rivera
Italian player and minister (born 1943)
Not to do an impression of confused adjust Gianni Ravera.
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