Franco Tancredi

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Franco Tancredi
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Personal information
Full name Franco Tancredi
Date of birth January 10, 1955 (1955-01-10) (age 53)
Place of birth    Giulianova, Italy
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club England
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1979–1990 Roma 228 (0)   
National team
Italy
Teams managed
1990–2004
2004–2006
2006–2007
2007–
Roma (goalkeeping coach)
Juventus (goalkeeping coach)
Real Madrid (goalkeeping coach)
England (goalkeeping coach)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Franco Tancredi (born 10 January 1955 in Giulianova) is an Italian former football goalkeeper who played for AS Roma and Italy.

Tancredi made 228 appearances for Roma from 1979 to 1990. Although not very tall for a keeper Tancredi was blessed with great speed and agility and was a penalty save specialist.

He was the number two goalkeeper to Giovanni Galli in Italy's squad at Mexico 86.

In 1987, during a game against AC Milan at the San Siro, he was hit on the head by a firework thrown by a Milan supporter. He stopped breathing for a short time, but was eventually resuscitated by paramedics.

After retiring as a player, Tancredi worked as a goalkeeping coach for Roma until 2004 before following coach Fabio Capello to Juventus and taking the same post. At the start of the 2006-2007 season Tancredi followed Capello to work as a goalkeeping coach at Real Madrid[1].

On 14 December 2007 he was formally appointed the Goalkeeping Coach of England in line with the appointment of new Manager, Fabio Capello.

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