 Anquilletti with AC Milan in the 1968–69 season | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 25 April 1943 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | San Donato Milanese, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 9 January 2015 (aged 71) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Milan, Italy | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1961–1964 | Solbiatese | 90 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1964–1966 | Atalanta | 48 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1966–1977 | AC Milan | 278 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1979 | Monza | 41 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 457 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1969 | Italy | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Angelo Anquilletti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo aŋkwilˈletti]; 25 April 1943 – 9 January 2015) was an Italian football defender.[1] A tough yet fair player, Anquiletti was a successful right-sided full-back, who was known for his strength, energy, work-rate, positioning, marking ability, anticipation, and his ability to read the game; he also excelled in the air and was confident on the ball and at distributing it to teammates, which also enabled him to be deployed as a sweeper towards the end of his career.[2][3] He is mostly remembered for his lengthy spell with AC Milan and for being a member of the Italian UEFA Euro 1968 winning squad. Anquiletti was known by the fans as "Angelo Anguilla" (Angelo the Eel), due to his man-marking ability, and wore the number 2 shirt throughout his successful Milan career.[4]
- ^ "Angelo Anquilletti - Player Profile - Football". Eurosport. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ "Enciclopedia del Calcio, 2011: Anquiletti, Angelo". enciclopediadelcalcio.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ "A.C. Milan Hall of Fame: ANGELO ANQUILLETTI". A.C. Milan. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ "Milan, morto Anquilletti, storico numero 2 degli Anni 70". gazzetta.it (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.