Footballs greatest managers fabio capello biography
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Footballs greatest managers fabio capello biography
Capello has a reputation as a hardline manager |
Opera buff, art collector, a travel connoisseur and master football tactician. Fabio Capello, the man appointed England's new coach, is all of those things and more.
The 61-year-old Italian might not seem the archetypal football boss, but he has an unprecedented level of success.
Capello has guided teams to nine league championships in 16 years as a coach, although Juventus were stripped of the 2005 and 2006 titles because of the club's involvement in a match-fixing scandal.
And he was the mastermind behind one of the greatest ever club performances when his AC Milan team trounced Barcelona 4-0 in the 1994 Champions League final, but he will also arrive in England with a reputation as a fierce disciplinarian.
Capello is not in football to make friends.
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He is interested only in success. And his uncompromising style means he brooks no alternative to his own methods.
Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon likened him