italian football player

Dino Zoff ( italian pronunciation : [ ˈdiːno dˈdzɔf ] ; born 28 February 1942 ) is an italian erstwhile professional football player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the oldest always winner of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the italian national team in the 1982 tournament, at the long time of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days. [ 3 ] He besides won the award for best goalkeeper of the tournament and was elected to the team of the tournament for his performances, keeping two clean-sheets, an honor he besides received after winning the 1968 european Championship on home territory. Zoff is the lone italian actor to have won both the World Cup and the european Championship. [ 4 ] He besides achieved great club success with Juventus, winning six Serie A titles, two Coppa Italia titles, and a UEFA Cup, besides reaching two european Champions ‘ Cup finals in the 1972–73 and 1982–83 seasons, a well as finishing second in the 1973 Intercontinental Cup final. Zoff was a goalkeeper of outstanding ability, and he has a space in the history of the sport among the very best in this function, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] being named the third base greatest goalkeeper of the twentieth century by the IFFHS behind Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks. [ 8 ] He holds the record for the longest play time without allowing goals in international tournaments ( 1,142 minutes ) set between 1972 and 1974. [ 9 ] With 112 caps, he is the sixth most cap player for the Italy national team. In 2004, Pelé named Zoff as one of the 100 greatest living footballers. In the same year, Zoff placed fifth in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll, and was elected as Italy ‘s golden player of the past 50 years. He besides placed second gear in the 1973 Ballon d’Or, as he narrowly missed out on a ternary with Juventus. In 1999, Zoff placed 47th in World Soccer Magazine ‘s 100 Greatest Players of the Twentieth Century. [ 10 ]

After retiring as a football player, Zoff went on to pursue a managerial career, coaching the italian national team, with which he reached the Euro 2000 Final, losing to Team France, and several italian club teams, including his early club Juventus, with which he won an UEFA Cup and a Coppa Italia double during the 1989–90 temper, trophies he had besides won as a player. In September 2014, Zoff published his italian autobiography Dura solo un attimo, la gloria ( “ Glory lone Lasts a Moment ” ). [ 11 ]

early life [edit ]

Dino Zoff was born in Mariano del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy into a farm family. Upon his church father ‘s trace, Zoff initially besides pursued studies to be a automobile mechanic in case his football career proved to be abortive. As a new aspiring football player, Zoff was besides concerned in early sports, and his two independent role models were the cyclist Fausto Coppi, and the slipstream walker Abdon Pamich. [ 7 ] [ 12 ]

Club career [edit ]

Udinese, Mantova and Napoli [edit ]

Zoff ‘s career got off to an ill start, when at the age of fourteen he had trials with Inter Milan and Juventus, but was rejected due to a lack of altitude. [ 7 ] Five years late, having grown by 33 centimetres ( purportedly due to his grandma Adelaide ‘s recommended increase daily intake of eight eggs ), [ 7 ] [ 13 ] he made his Serie A introduction with Udinese on 24 September 1961, in a 5–2 defeat to Fiorentina, although Zoff was not criticised for any of the goals he conceded. [ 14 ] Zoff made only four appearances in his first season for Udinese, as they were relegated to Serie B. He played the next season as the club ‘s starting goalkeeper, helping the club to Serie A promotion, before moving to Mantova in 1963, where he spent four seasons, making 131 appearances. [ 15 ] His performances for Mantova in the top flight caught the attention of larger clubs, while Italy ‘s home coach at the time, Edmondo Fabbri, flush considered bringing him as a back-up for the 1966 FIFA World Cup, although he ultimately chose to bring Enrico Albertosi, Roberto Anzolin, and Pierluigi Pizzaballa alternatively. In 1967, Zoff was transferred to Napoli, in central for fellow goalkeeper Claudio Bandoni, and a transfer fee of 130 million Lire ; he spent five seasons in Naples, making 143 Serie A appearances with the club. During this clock time, he began to achieve increasing recognition in Italy, besides making his International debut with the italian national side in 1968, and earning a place in Italy ‘s squads at Euro 68 and the 1970 World Cup. [ 12 ] [ 14 ] [ 16 ]

Juventus [edit ]

Following his achievements with the national side, and due to his performances during his time with Napoli, Zoff was signed by Juventus in 1972, at the age of 30, where he resumed his success. In football team years with Juventus, Zoff won the Serie A backing six times, the Coppa Italia doubly and the UEFA Cup once, besides reaching two european Cup finals, another semi-final in 1978 ( during which Zoff played a critical function in the clubhouse ‘s shoot-out victory over Ajax in the quarter-finals by saving two penalties ), [ 17 ] and the semi-finals of the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup during the 1979–80 season. [ 14 ] In 1973, he placed second in the Ballon d’Or, following his Serie A title victory, besides narrowly missing out on an historical double with Juventus, after reaching both the european Cup and the Coppa Italia finals that season, in which his club were defeated, however ; Juventus besides finished as runner-up in the 1973 Intercontinental Cup that class. In winning the 1977 UEFA Cup Final against Athletic Bilbao, Zoff came out on top against his ‘twin ‘, the Basque goalkeeper José Ángel Iribar. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] overall, Zoff made 479 appearances for Juventus in all competitions, making 330 Serie A appearances with the club ( all of which came consecutively, a clubhouse commemorate ), [ 20 ] 74 in the Coppa Italia, 71 in european Competitions, and 4 in other Club Competitions. He is presently Juventus ‘s 6th record appearance holder in all competitions, their 7th all-time appearance holder in Serie A, their 3rd all-time appearance holder in the Coppa Italia, their 7th all-time appearance holder in UEFA Club competitions, and their 9th all-time appearance holder in international club competitions. [ 21 ]
Zoff won his final Serie A championship with Juventus during the 1981–82 Serie A season, besides winning the 1982 FIFA World Cup with Italy that class, as his team ‘s captain. During the following 1982–83 temper, the concluding temper of his career, Dino Zoff won the Coppa Italia with defending Serie A champions Juventus, and he reached his second european Cup final with the baseball club in 1983 ; Juventus were defeated 1–0 by Hamburg in Athens on 25 May, after Zoff was beaten by Felix Magath ‘s long-distance strike ; this was the concluding match of his career. His final league appearance came in a 4–2 home succeed over Genoa on 15 May 1983. [ 14 ]

club records [edit ]

Upon retirement, Zoff held the records for the oldest Serie A player, at the age of 41, and the most Serie A appearances ( 570 matches ) for more than 20 years, until the 2005–06 temper, when the records were broken by Lazio goalkeeper Marco Ballotta, and A.C. Milan defender Paolo Maldini respectively. Behind merely early A.C. Milan goalkeeper Sebastiano Rossi, who overtook him during the 1993–94 season, Zoff has conceded the fewest goals in a individual Serie A season ; behind only Gianluigi Buffon and Sebastiano Rossi, he has besides gone the most clock unbeaten in Serie A without conceding a goal, producing a 903-minute unbeaten streak during the 1972–73 temper, a record that stood until Rossi overtook him in the 1993–94 temper ; [ nb 1 ] Buffon broke the record during the 2015–16 season. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] He besides held the Serie A record for most straight clean sheets aboard Rossi ( 9 ), until Gianluigi Buffon overtook them both with his 10th consecutive clean and jerk sheet in 2016. With 570 Serie A appearances, Zoff is besides the sixth highest appearance holder in Serie A of all clock time, and he is the fourth oldest musician in Serie A to have always played a match. [ 21 ] He holds the read for most straight matches played in Serie A ( 332 ), a streak which went unbroken from 21 May 1972 ( in a 0–0 home draw with Napoli against Bologna ), until his final examination league appearance with Juventus in 1983. [ 14 ] At 41 years and 86 days, Zoff is besides the oldest actor to have appeared in a european Cup or UEFA Champions League Final. [ 27 ]

International career [edit ]

anterior to representing the senior italian side, Zoff had won a aureate decoration with the Italy under-23 side at the 1963 Mediterranean Games. On 20 April 1968, Zoff made his elder debut for Italy, playing in a 2–0 win against Bulgaria in the stern finals of the 1968 european Championships, in Naples. [ 28 ] Zoff ended up being promoted to starting goalkeeper over his perceived career rival Enrico Albertosi [ 29 ] during the tournament, and Italy proceeded to win the European Championship on home dirt, with Zoff taking home a winners ‘ decoration after only his one-fourth international appearance, keeping two clean sheets, and winning the award for the best goalkeeper of the tournament. Zoff was left out of the italian starting football team in the 1970 World Cup, however, and was Albertosi ‘s deputy throughout the tournament, as Italy went on to reach the final of the World Cup, and was defeated 4–1 by Brazil. He returned to the starting line-up, however, ahead of Albertosi, in Italy ‘s disappoint 1974 World Cup campaign, during which they would be eliminated in the first polish. [ 12 ] [ 21 ]
From 1972 onwards, Zoff became Italy ‘s undisputed numeral 1, and he participated in the 1978 World Cup with Italy, during which he managed a fourth-place finish, keeping 3 clean-sheets. Italy were eliminated in the semi-final, in a 2–1 loss to the Netherlands. After the catch, Zoff was criticised for making a fairly rare error, as he was beaten by a strike from distance by Arie Haan. [ 21 ] Zoff was besides Italy ‘s starting goalkeeper once again at the 1980 european Championships on home dirt, however, helping his side to reach the semi-finals, finishing the tournament in fourth place once again. During the 1980 european Championship, Zoff kept three clean sheets, only conceding one goal in the bronze decoration meet, which Italy would lose on penalties ; Zoff was elected as the goalkeeper of the tournament once again, an honor he had previously managed after winning the tournament in 1968. Throughout these two tournaments, Zoff established a commemorate for most consecutive minutes unbeaten in a european Championship, which was later beaten by Iker Casillas in 2012. Zoff had besides established the record for most minutes unbeaten european Championship qualify, which was besides beaten, by compatriot Buffon in 2011. He hush holds the commemorate, however, for most consecutive minutes without conceding a finish at the european Championships including qualify, having kept eight back-to-back cleans sheets between 1975 and 1980, while going unbeaten for 784 minutes. Alongside Casillas, Buffon, and Thomas Myhre, he is the goalkeeper with the fewest goals conceded in a unmarried version of the European Championships, having conceded only one goal in the 1968 european Championships ; of these players, only Zoff and Casillas won the claim while achieving this feat. Zoff ‘s greatest accomplishment, however, came in the 1982 World Cup in Spain, where he captained Italy to victory in the tournament at the senesce of 40, making him the oldest ever winner of the World Cup ; throughout the tournament, he kept two fairly sheets, and produced a crucial goal-line save in the final minutes of the end second-round group match against favourites Brazil on 5 July, which enabled the Italians to earn a 3–2 victory and promote to the semi-finals of the rival. [ 14 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] On 11 July, at the age of 40 years and 133 days, he became the oldest musician always to feature in a World Cup final ; [ 33 ] following Italy ‘s 3–1 victory over West Germany at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, he followed in the footsteps of compatriot Gianpiero Combi ( 1934 ) as merely the second goalkeeper to captain a World Cup-winning side ( later Iker Casillas and Hugo Lloris repeated this feat for Spain and France in the 2010 and 2018 World Cups respectively ). due to his performances, he was voted as the Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament. Regarding Zoff ‘s importance during Italy ‘s triumphant World Cup campaign, his director Enzo Bearzot said of him : [ 12 ] [ 21 ]

“ He was a healthy goalkeeper, capable of staying calm air during the toughest and the most elating moments. He always held back both out of modesty and esteem for his opponents. At the end of the Brazil pit, he came all over to give me a kiss on the impudence, without saying a single word. For me, that evanesce here and now was the most intense of the entire World Cup. ” [ 7 ]

During the flight of return from Spain on a DC-9 airplane, Zoff, Pertini ( the Italian President of Republic ), Causio and Bearzot were immortalized in a photograph, on the spur of the moment gone highly popular, while playing card at scopone scientifico, an italian social and team sport. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] In the previous years, the same aircraft had been used by Pertini and Wojtyla for private and institutional flights. [ 36 ] In April 2017, it was put down back in the Museum of Volandia, near Varese. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Zoff besides holds the record for the longest stretch ( 1142 minutes ) without allowing any goals in international football, set between 1972 and 1974. That clean sheet stretch was ended by Haitian player Manno Sanon ‘s beautiful finish during the 1974 World Cup. Zoff made his final appearance for Italy on 29 May 1983, in a 2–0 off loss to Sweden, in a Euro 1984 qualifying match. At the time of his retirement, Zoff ‘s 112 caps were the most always by a penis of the italian national team. He presently sits in sixth position in this category, a well as second among goalkeepers, with Gianluigi Buffon having surpassed the latter record. [ 12 ] [ 21 ]

style of maneuver [edit ]

c. January 1973. Zoff in training with Juventus, January 1973. Zoff was a traditional, effective, and experienced goalkeeper, who normally favoured efficiency and caution over flamboyance and making saves, although he was besides adequate to of producing outstanding dives and decisive saves when necessary due to his persuasiveness and athleticism. He was peculiarly regarded for his outstanding placement and manage of the testis, in finical when coming forbidden to collect crosses, equally well as his concentration, consistency, calm mentality, and composure under atmospheric pressure ; he was besides an elegant player, who possessed good reactions and excellent shot-stopping abilities. Zoff was besides noted for his attention to detail during matches, a well as his ability to read the game, anticipate his opponents, communicate with his defenders, and organise his back-line, which besides enabled him to start attacking plays quickly from the back after claiming the ball. Despite his unplayful and reserved quality, Zoff besides drew praise for his leadership skills, correct behavior, and competitive liveliness, which led him to serve as master of his national side, and enabled him to inspire a sense of composure and confidence in his teammates. On occasion, however, Zoff was accused by certain pundits of occasionally struggling when facing long-range shots, and for not constantly being particularly adept at stopping penalties. Known for his work-rate in educate, dedication, and discipline as a football player, in accession to his goalkeeping skills, Zoff besides stood out for his stamina, longevity, and determination, which enabled him to avoid injuries and have an extensive and highly successful career ; ascribable to his constant desire to improve himself, he was able to maintain a reproducible flush of performance throughout his stallion career, even with his advancing historic period towards the end of his career, into his late 30s and early on 40s. [ niobium 2 ] Considered one of the greatest goalkeepers of all meter, [ 51 ] [ 52 ] in 1999 he was elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the third base best goalkeeper of the twentieth Century – after Lev Yashin ( 1st ) and Gordon Banks ( 2nd ) – arsenic well as Italy ‘s best keeper of the hundred, and the second best european keeper of the century – behind entirely Yashin. [ 8 ] [ 12 ]

Coaching career [edit ]

After his retirement as a actor, Zoff went into coach, joining the technical staff at Juventus, initially as a goalkeeping passenger car, although this experience proved to be unsatisfactory for him. [ 12 ] He subsequently coached the italian Olympic side, his foremost experience as a coach, helping the team to qualify for the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, before returning to Juventus in a coach role ; the italian Olympic side finally managed a fourth-place finish in the final tournament. Zoff served as Juventus ‘s headway coach from 1988 to 1990. [ 12 ] In 1990, he was sacked, however, despite winning the UEFA Cup and the Coppa Italia during the 1989–90 season, while besides helping the club to a third-place polish in the league. [ 12 ] He then joined Lazio, where he became the bus in 1994, and late the club ‘s sporting conductor, winning the Coppa Italia in 1998, and helping the baseball club to an UEFA Cup concluding the like season, and was defeated by compatriots Inter. [ 14 ] In 1998, Zoff was appointed as the forefront coach of the italian national team. Although Italy were distillery timid and organize defensively, Zoff used a more overt, fluid, and attacking stylus of playing period than that used by his more defensive italian coaching predecessors Cesare Maldini and Arrigo Sacchi. Zoff helped the team to qualify for Euro 2000, and he introduced respective younger players to the team, such as Francesco Totti, Gianluca Zambrotta, Stefano Fiore, Massimo Ambrosini, Christian Abbiati, Marco Delvecchio, and Vincenzo Montella. [ 27 ] [ 53 ] [ 54 ] Although Italy were not crown favourites because of a young squad, he coached a young Italy police squad to a second-place end in Euro 2000, suffering a 2–1 extra-time get the better of at the hands of reigning World Cup Champions France in the final examination, due to a golden goal by David Trezeguet. En road to the final, a ten-man Italy had eliminated co-hosts the Netherlands in the semi-finals in a penalty shoot-out, after a 0–0 draw, following extra-time, with a tightly contested defensive expose against a more offensive-minded Dutch side. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] In the final of the tournament, Italy had been 1–0 up for most of the moment half, and were less than sixty seconds off from winning the tournament, before France forward Sylvain Wiltord scored in the fourth and final moment of stop time to equalise, and send the match into excess time. [ 57 ] Despite reaching the final examination, Zoff resigned a few days subsequently, following strong criticism from A.C. Milan president of the united states and politician Silvio Berlusconi. [ 58 ] Zoff was voted the World Soccer Manager of the year in 2000. [ 59 ] Zoff returned to defending Serie A, Coppa Italia, and Supercoppa Italiana champions Lazio as a director for the following season, replacing Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001, and finishing third in Serie A. The follow season, he resigned on 20 September, after only the third match, due to a poor start to the 2001–02 season. [ 14 ] In 2005, he was named the coach of Fiorentina as a refilling for Sergio Buso. Despite saving the team from relegation on the final day of the season, Zoff was let go .

manner of management [edit ]

As a coach, Zoff was known for his consumption of tactics based upon the zone mista organization ( or “ Gioco all’Italiana ” ), which was a crossbreed between the catenaccio man-marking and zonal commemorate systems. Although he was initially known for fielding a 4–4–2 constitution, at Euro 2000, he used a 5–2–1–2 system with Italy. His teams frequently used a sweeper, who, in addition to his defensive duties and organizational responsibilities, was besides required to start plays from the binding. He preferred not to base his team ‘s fun on sic plays and formations, as he believed that cultivating a commodity relationship with his players and fostering a winning team mentality were the keys to getting the best out of them, and that this would besides allow their natural creativity to come through in matches. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] [ 62 ] [ 63 ]

personal life [edit ]

Zoff is married to Annamaria Passerini ; they have a son, Marco, born in 1967. [ 12 ] [ 16 ] Zoff is Roman Catholic. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] [ 66 ] On 28 November 2015, it was reported Zoff was hospitalised for three weeks with a viral neurological infection, which made it unmanageable for him to walk. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] On 23 December 2015, it was reported Zoff had been recovering well, however stating, “ For the foremost clock time in my life, I was actually afraid … When I say scar, I was n’t afraid for myself, but for those around me. My wife, my son, my grandchild. My tribe, basically. I would ‘ve in truth hurt them by leaving. ” He besides revealed, “ One night I saw two figures at the end of my go to bed. They had the faces of Gaetano Scirea [ one of his former, die teammates ] and Enzo Bearzot [ one of his former, asleep coaches ]. They were both smiling. I was n’t asleep, it was n’t a dream. I told them : ‘Not however, not nowadays. ‘ And I am still here. ” [ 69 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

International [edit ]

Appearances and goals by national team and year[28][72]
National team Year Apps Goals
Italy 1968 5 0
1969 4 0
1970 2 0
1971 6 0
1972 5 0
1973 8 0
1974 8 0
1975 7 0
1976 10 0
1977 6 0
1978 12 0
1979 4 0
1980 12 0
1981 7 0
1982 13 0
1983 3 0
Total 112 0

managerial [edit ]

Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Juventus 1 July 1988 30 June 1990 104 53 34 17 0 50.96
Lazio 1 July 1990 30 June 1994 154 57 58 39 0 37.01
Lazio 28 January 1997 3 June 1997 16 9 5 2

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0 56.25
Italy 31 July 1998 4 July 2000 22 10 7 5 0 45.45
Lazio 9 January 2001 30 September 2001 32 17 8 7 0 53.13
Fiorentina 25 January 2005 7 June 2005 20 5 7 8 0 25.00
Total 348 151 119 78 0 43.39

Honours and achievements [edit ]

actor [edit ]

Juventus [ 41 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ]
Italy [ 75 ]

director [edit ]

Juventus [ 41 ]

individual [edit ]

Player
Manager

Orders [edit ]

Records [edit ]

  • FIFA World Cup: Oldest player to play in and win a final, at 40 years, 4 months and 13 days in 1982[33]
  • UEFA Champions League/European Cup: Oldest player to play in a final, at 41 years and 86 days in 1983[27]
  • Most consecutive appearances in Serie A with Juventus: 330 (1972–1983)[20]
  • Most consecutive appearances in Serie A: 332 (1972–1983)[14]
  • Longest period time without conceding a goal in international matches: 1142 minutes (1972–1974).[9]
  • Most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal at the European Championships including qualifying: 784 (1975–1980)
  • Fewest goals conceded in a single edition of the European Championships: 1 (1968) (alongside Gianluigi Buffon, Iker Casillas, and Thomas Myhre)
  • Fewest goals conceded in a single edition of the European Championships by a tournament-winning starting goalkeeper: 1 (1968) (alongside Iker Casillas)
  • One of four goalkeepers to win the FIFA World Cup as captain: 1982 (alongside Gianpiero Combi, Iker Casillas, and Hugo Lloris)[12][21]

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