Mauro Tassotti

Mauro Tassotti
Tassotti in 2012
Personal information
Date of birth (1960-01-19) 19 January 1960 (age 64)
Place of birth Rome, Italy
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1980 Lazio 41 (0)
1980–1997 AC Milan 429 (8)
Total 470 (8)
International career
1978–1982 Italy U21[1] 10 (1)
1979 Italy U23[1] 1 (0)
1992–1994 Italy[1] 7 (0)
Managerial career
1997–2001 AC Milan (youth)
2001 AC Milan (caretaker)
2001–2015 AC Milan (assistant)
2014 AC Milan (caretaker)
2015–2016 AC Milan (scout)
2016–2021 Ukraine (assistant)
2021–2022 Genoa (assistant)
Medal record
Representing  Italy
FIFA World Cup
Runner-up 1994
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mauro Tassotti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmauro tasˈsɔtti]; born in Rome, 19 January 1960) is an Italian manager and former footballer who played predominantly as a right back. He currently serves as an assistant coach at Genoa. After making his Serie A debut with Lazio, he went on to play with AC Milan for 17 years. He won 17 major titles with Milan, including five Serie A championships and three UEFA Champions League tournaments, reaching five finals in total. He is mostly remembered for his role alongside Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Filippo Galli and Christian Panucci in the Milan backline under managers Arrigo Sacchi and Fabio Capello, forming what is considered by many in the sport to be one of the greatest defensive lineups of all time.[a]

An Italian international in the early 1990s, Tassotti only came into the national side under Sacchi, when he was already in his 30s, helping Italy to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Tassotti would go on to represent his nation at the final tournament, winning a runners-up medal, although he was banned for the latter half of the tournament. Prior to his Italy senior career, he had previously also represented Italy at under-21 level, and participated at the 1988 Olympics with the under-23 team, finishing in fourth place.

After retiring in 1997, Tassotti remained connected to Milan in several positions: he worked as a youth coach, as an assistant manager, as a caretaker manager and subsequently as a talent scout, until he left the club in 2016 to join the Ukrainian national side as an assistant coach.[11]

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