Franchino BaresiOMRI (Italian pronunciation:[ˈfraŋkobaˈreːzi;-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 in World Soccer magazine's list of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century.[2] With Milan, he won three UEFA Champions League titles, six Serie A titles, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, two European Super Cups and two International Cups, as well as a World Cup with Italy.
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 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.[3] 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.[4] He was named by Pelé one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at the FIFA centenary awards ceremony in 2004.[5] Baresi was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Franchino Baresi OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko baˈreːzi; -eːsi]; born 8 May 1960) is an Italian football youth team coach and a former player and...
fourth place, and at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. His younger brother, FrancoBaresi, also a defender, served as captain for city rivals A.C. Milan and the...
Baresi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: FrancoBaresi (born 1960), Italian football youth team coach, player, and manager Giuseppe...
Italy two and a half months before. With Italy finishing as runners-up, FrancoBaresi became the sixth player in history to win gold, silver and bronze medals...
Under Sacchi and later Fabio Capello, Maldini formed with long-timers FrancoBaresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Mauro Tassotti, as well as Filippo Galli, Stefano...
The same year saw the retirement of Gianni Rivera and the debut of FrancoBaresi, at his first full season with the club. After this success, the team...
season-long spell on loan at Monza. He is best known for his role alongside FrancoBaresi, Paolo Maldini, and Mauro Tassotti, forming one of the greatest defences...
appearances. Four other players have made more than 500 appearances: FrancoBaresi (719), Alessandro Costacurta (663), Gianni Rivera (658) and Mauro Tassotti...
Travagliato is the birthplace of Italian football legends FrancoBaresi and Giuseppe Baresi. Ospitaletto-Travagliato railway station Travagliato is twinned...
for league and European appearances, with 647 and 168 respectively. FrancoBaresi holds the record for Coppa Italia appearances with 97. Most appearances...
captain, and niece of FrancoBaresi, who captained AC Milan. After practicing different sports as a child, at the age of 12, Baresi joined the youth team...
earned comparisons from his management team to legendary defenders FrancoBaresi and Franz Beckenbauer. On 23 April 2023, Lockyer was named in the EFL...
world's most expensive footballer) was also injured; sweeper and captain, FrancoBaresi was suspended, as was defender Alessandro Costacurta; and UEFA regulations...
served as a back-up to the starting defensive line-up of Paolo Maldini, FrancoBaresi, Alessandro Costacurta, and Mauro Tassotti, which is regarded as one...
be decided on penalties after goalless 120 minutes. Italian captain FrancoBaresi missed the very first penalty, and Roberto Baggio the decisive last...
Silva's play has led him to be compared to legendary Italian defender FrancoBaresi. Baresi, regarded as one of the greatest defenders in football history,...
total. He is mostly remembered for his role alongside Paolo Maldini, FrancoBaresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Filippo Galli and Christian Panucci in the Milan...
players such as Roberto Donadoni, as well as the defensive back four of FrancoBaresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Mauro Tassotti and Paolo Maldini, were also...
president Silvio Berlusconi, featured players such as Paolo Maldini, FrancoBaresi, Mauro Tassotti and Alessandro Costacurta as defenders; Frank Rijkaard...
Milan in the Derby della Madonnina at the San Siro. His former captain FrancoBaresi laid a bouquet of flowers next to Wilkins' shirt by the side of the...
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