Roberto Donadoni: biography, personal life, interesting facts from life

Roberto Donadoni belongs to the number of professional players who, after the end of their sports career, continue their work as a coach. Unfortunately, the talented midfielder, who has a large number of different titles and wins in the Italian national team and the clubs for which he had to perform, does not have any achievements as a coach.

Acquaintance with football

The birthday of Roberto Donadoni marks September 9th. He was born in 1963 in a small Italian town near Bergamo. Parents of the future star were engaged in farming. At their disposal was a small plot for farming and a cowshed. In addition to Roberto, the family had three more children: two older brothers and a sister.

When the boy was 9 years old, he was accepted into a courtyard team, competing with equivalent boyish amateur formulations. Here, he proved to be a good candidate, and 3 years after the beginning of the school, parents buy the boy the real boots of the company Adidas.

The beginning of a professional career

Despite the fact that Roberto Donadoni, whose height at the age of fourteen was just over 140 cm, according to statistics, did not reach the standards, some coaches of the Atlant youth club paid attention to him. In order to get to the team's daily training, the guy had to overcome more than 19 km on a bus every day, after which it was almost a kilometer to walk to the stadium. In the event that he did not have time on a six-hour flight, the next one had to wait until 21:00.

Such inconveniences could not discourage the young man from loving sports, and at the age of nineteen he made his debut in the first team. He was able to quickly reserve a place in the first team, and the following year, together with the club that won first place in the series B, goes to the Italian Serie A.

The first match in the Superleague Roberto Donadoni conducts against the football club "Internazionale" Milan. He ends with a draw 1: 1. After the completion of his debut season, the club is in the tenth place and receives the unofficial title of the most stubborn collective ("Atlanta" more than the others brought the result of the match to a draw - 18 times). In the next season, the team ranks 8th in the country's ranking.

Rossoneri

In the football career of Roberto Donadoni, a ray of happiness is lighted. It manifests itself as the conclusion of an expensive contract with the professional club "Inter". As a retreat, we can distinguish that he was the fan of this particular team since childhood.

The contract with this club in due time admitted very scandalous as the young, giving perspective the halfback has already given the consent to transition in Turin "Juventus", but suddenly after the offer from the Milan management has changed the mind and has joined the ranks of "Rossoneri".

It is in the T-shirt of this club Roberto Donadoni, whose biography is instantly associated with "Milan", was able to win almost all the club trophies of the Old World available at the turn of the time.

Professional achievements

Being in the Milan Inter Milan, Roberto was able to make his own contribution to the conquest of each of the club's won cups and championships. For the 10 years he spent in the red-black team, the team was able to win the following titles:

• Five-time champion of Italy;
• Four-time winner and winner of the Cup of the country;
• Three-time winner of the League of European Champions;
• Three-time winner of the European Cup super cup;
• Two-time winner of the Intercontinental Cup;
• Four-time winner of the Super Cup of the country.

In addition, in the season of 1999-2000 he became the champion of Saudi Arabia. But in the national team of his own country, he was never able to achieve the desired result:

• 1988 - bronze medalist of the European Championship;
• 1990, which became for Roberto Donadoni debut on performances for the national team at the World Cup, ended only a victory in the match for third place;
• 1994 - the first mundial held in the United States, remembered by Roberto defeat in the final from the Brazilians and an honorable second place.

Travel around the world

Roberto Donadoni, whose photo for most of the more familiar in the red-black form of "Inter" or in the blue T-shirt of the Italian team, for his professional career managed to play on several continents. In 1996-97, the player acted as a midfielder of the club, representing New York's MetroStars. For 49 matches played on the field, he scores 6 goals in the opponents' goal, which is a good result for the midfielder.

Shortly before completing his professional career, Roberto receives an invitation from the Asian football club Al Attihad, which is the city of Jeddah. A successful final for the once-stellar opornika in this team did not work. Maybe the fact is that because of local traditions, family problems with his wife arose. The second option is that they did let me know about myself for a year and received injuries for the entire football career. As a result, for a season spent in a jersey of a club from Jeddah, Roberto Donadoni failed to score a single goal and did not even create scoring chances.

Team Italy

The progress of the perspective midfielder in the national team was obvious. Debuting against the Greeks and making during the match not one solo passage to their goal, Roberto received very flattering reviews from people who are versed in football. Already in the next match, a month later, passing with the Swiss, he was able to prove himself not only as a player capable of exacerbating. Roberto in this game opened his scoring goals for the national team. It happened on 15.11.1986. In total for the national team of the country he had 63 matches and scored 5 goals.

A family

Roberto Donadoni, whose personal life is not much different from the average Italian, is married and has one child, a boy born in 1989. He was called Andrea.

Spouse professional football player can be compared with the Russian Decembrists. The couple immediately after the wedding was supposed to move to Saudi Arabia, as the spouse had signed a contract with the local club for one year. The first few months the newlyweds had to live separately. The fact is that according to the laws of this Asian country, a woman can not appear in a society without a black cape, and also be in public places at the same table with a man, even if he is her legal spouse.

Interesting Facts

Coincidence or not, but after the first Atlanta club lost its right midfielder, he again flew to Serie A. It happened next season after the departure of Roberto Donadoni. Interesting facts related to his professional career player, this does not end there.

After the 1990 World Cup , held in Italy, the number under which Roberto spoke, for some time was considered unhappy. The fact is that after the match penalties appointed by the arbiter of the semifinal meeting between the national team and the Argentines, Roberto, acting under this number, could not beat the goalkeeper. Sergio Goicochea reflected his blow, and the subsequent ball of Diego Maradona was accurate. Thus, after the championship number 17 none of the Italian players did not take, considering it unhappy.

At the moment, the graying midfielder, who holds the position of coach, has extended the term of the contract with "Bologna" until 2018. Before that, he had already managed to direct several clubs of the Italian Serie A and the national team of his country, but, unfortunately, he could not reach his own results, received as a player.