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Italian former professional football manager and player. As a player, Capello represented SPAL 1907, Roma, Milan and Juventus. He played as a russian coach profile and won several trophies during his career which lasted over 15 years. Capello was appointed as manager of the England national team in December 2007.

Capello was signed by Paolo Mazza, the President of SPAL, for the fee of two million lire despite interest from Milan. In 1967, Capello moved to Roma where he became a key player for the club. A recurrence of the injury to his left knee, however, kept him out for the rest of the season and Roma eventually finished in tenth place, just five points away from relegation. He was then sold to Juventus in 1970. He had a poor start to his time there, as he publicly criticised manager Armando Picchi on the same day it was revealed that Picchi had been diagnosed with cancer. Capello escaped with a fine from the club after Picchi insisted that he not receive a suspension.

Juventus were concerned with Capello’s knee injuries, and so traded him to Milan in exchange for Romeo Benetti and 100 million lire in 1976. Regarded as one of the best Italian players of his generation, Capello was a talented, dynamic, energetic, and tactically intelligent holding midfielder, with a good positional sense and excellent intuition. After several years as a football pundit for Italian TV SPW and a brief spell as caretaker manager of Milan in 1987, Capello became a leading candidate to succeed Arrigo Sacchi as coach of the team, and he was formally appointed as manager of Milan in 1991. Before going into management, Capello spent the early 1980s coaching the Milan youth teams. A student at Coverciano, in 1984 he penned a research article entitled “The Zonal Marking System”. 15 million on winger Gianluigi Lentini, breaking the world football transfer record.

94 season, Capello signed Christian Panucci, Brian Laudrup, Florin Răducioiu and Marcel Desailly. Capello was unveiled as the new Real Madrid coach in 1996. Despite a belief by the Lazio owner Sergio Cragnotti that Capello had made a verbal agreement to coach his club, Capello instead returned to Milan for a brief and less successful spell. Following his dismissal at Milan, Capello took a short break from coaching. He told a reporter that he “sat on a beach and thought about football”. He also enjoyed a spell as a colour commentator for Italian television, participating in coverage of the 1999 Copa América.

01 Serie A title, having signed Walter Samuel to strengthen his defence, and Gabriel Batistuta as a main goalscorer. Although the large fee for Batistuta was initially questioned, the Argentine striker scored a number of vital goals. That was Roma’s first major honour in a decade and only the third time ever that they had been crowned champions of Italy. Following the title win there was also a widespread belief that he had done a secret deal to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United. Capello’s link with United eventually came to nothing after Ferguson abandoned his decision to retire and signed a new contract, with Martin Edwards claiming that United had been three or four days away from appointing a new manager, believed to be Capello, when Ferguson changed his mind.