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Full name | Antonio Cabrini | ||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 8 October 1957 | ||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Cremona, Italy | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
Playing position | Left-back | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Italy (women) (head coach) | ||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||
Cremonese | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
1973–1975 | Cremonese | 29 | (2) | ||||||||||||
1975–1976 | Atalanta | 35 | (1) | ||||||||||||
1976–1989 | Juventus | 297 | (33) | ||||||||||||
1989–1991 | Bologna | 55 | (2) | ||||||||||||
Total | 416 | (38) | |||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||
1978–1987 | Italy | 73 | (9) | ||||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
2000–2001 | Arezzo | ||||||||||||||
2001 | Crotone | ||||||||||||||
2004–2005 | Pisa | ||||||||||||||
2005–2006 | Novara | ||||||||||||||
2012– | Italy (women) | ||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Antonio Cabrini (born 8 October 1957) is an Italian professional football manager, who is currently in charge of Italy women's national, and a former player. He has played left-back, mainly with Juventus. He won the 1982 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team. Cabrini was nicknamed Bell'Antonio ("beautiful Antonio"), because of his popularity as a fascinating and good-looking football player. On the field, his technical, defensive, athletic, and physical qualities made of him one of the best defenders in the history of Italian football, and he is regarded as one of greatest fullbacks of all time. Cabrini is remembered in particular for forming one of the most formidable defensive units of all time with Italy and Juventus, alongside goalkeeper Dino Zoff, as well as defenders Claudio Gentile, and Gaetano Scirea. Cabrini won the Best Young Player Award at the 1978 World Cup, after helping Italy managed a fourth-place finish, and also represented Italy at Euro 1980, once again finishing in fourth place. He is one of the few players to have won all UEFA Club competitions, an achievement he managed with Juventus.
Cabrini was born in Cremona, Lombardy. He made his professional football debut with the local team U.S. Cremonese in the Serie C during the 1973–74 season, making 3 appearances and gaining a starting place the following 1974–75 season. In the 1975–76 season he played in the Serie B for Atalanta, and in the summer of 1976 he was acquired by Juventus, the team for which he was to spend most of his career.