Franco Baresi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Italian association football player
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Place of Birth: Travagliato, Lombardy, Italy
About Franco Baresi
- Franco Baresi (Italian pronunciation: ['fra?ko ba're?zi; -e?si]; 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.
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