Giuseppe Baresi

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Giuseppe Baresi
Date of birth	February 7, 1958 (1958-02-07) (age 50)
Place of birth	Travagliato, Italy
Playing position	Defensive midfielder/Defender
Youth clubs
	Internazionale
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1976-1992 1992-1994	Internazionale Modena	559 (13) 073 0(0)
National team
1977-1980 1979-1986	Italy U-21 Italy	018 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Giuseppe Baresi (born February 7, 1958 in Travagliato, province of Brescia) is an Italian former football (soccer) player, who spent most of his career with Internazionale.

[edit] Career

Baresi made his professional debut during the 1977–78 season, and spent a total of 16 seasons with Internazionale, playing a total of 559 Serie A matches and scoring 13 goals. A long-standing nerazzurro, he also served as Internazionale captain but achieved little success at the national team level, only playing 18 matches with the Azzurri shirt, being also surpassed in notoriety by his more famous brother Franco who played for crosstown city rivals AC Milan. He also played for Modena in the serie B for a couple of seasons before hanging up his boots in 1994, at the age of 36.

After serving as as head of Internazionale's club youth system, he was appointed assistant manager to new Internazionale manager Jose Mourinho on June 2, 2008.^[1]

[edit] Honors

2 Scudetti
2 Coppa Italia
1 Supercoppa Italiana

[edit] External links

FIGC (Italian)

v • d • e Italy squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup

1 Galli • 2 Bergomi • 3 Cabrini • 4 Collovati • 5 Nela • 6 Scirea • 7 Tricella • 8 Vierchowod • 9 Ancelotti • 10 Bagni • 11 Baresi • 12 Tancredi • 13 De Napoli • 14 Di Gennaro • 15 Tardelli • 16 Conti • 17 Vialli • 18 Altobelli • 19 Galderisi • 20 Rossi • 21 Serena • 22 Zenga • Coach: Bearzot