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Giacinto
Facchetti
Nato a: Treviglio (near Bergamo)
Nazionalità: Italia
il: 18 Luglio 1942
ruolo: Difensore
morì: 4
Settembre 2007
Esordio in A : 21-5-61 Roma-Inter 0-2
Esordio in Nazionale : 27-3-63 Turchia-Italia 0-1
Presenze in A : 476
Reti in A : 59
Presenze in
Nazionale : 94
Reti in Nazionale : 3
PRESENZE E GOL
INTER F.C. 
Campionato
|
476
|
59
|
Coppe Europee
|
73
|
6
|
Coppa Italia
|
85
|
10
|
TOTALI
|
634
|
75
|
A profile
Giacinto
Facchetti was really a milestone in the Italian football.
He was the first defender who scored many goals without
penalties.
His fair play was legendary and he was one of most
popular players of 60's and 70's years in Italy also for
this reason.
Helenio Herrera, trainer of F.C. Inter Milan in the early
60's, gave a chance to young left full back at the end of
1960-'61 season but Facchetti did'nt leave a good
impression.
His long legs and his tall (1,89 m) was unusual for a
full back, but Herrera had a good idea : Facchetti must
attack his opponent.
Facchetti invented a skill, totally new for italian
football: a defender who play to score some goals, many
years before Cabrini and Maldini.
Facchetti scored the most famous of his goals in 1965
against Liverpool in the Champions Cup Semi Final.
Liverpool won the first match at Anfield 3-1, and Inter
to reach the Final must win 3-0 : Facchetti scored the
third and decisive goal of Inter with an incredible right
shoot beating Liverpool's goalkeeper Lawrence.

His Career
Facchetti spent his
entire career in the F.C. Internazionale of Milan and in
seventeen years he won two Champions Cup and two
Intercontinental Cup ('64, '65) and plaied two times more
the Champions Cup Final ('67 against Celtic and '72
against Ajax), he won four times the "scudetto"
('62-'63, '64-'65, '65-'66 and '70-71).
The 7th of may 1978 he played his last
official match with F.C. Inter in San Siro (now Meazza
Stadium) against Foggia.
Stagione
|
Campionato (1)
|
Coppe Europee
(2)
|
Coppa Italia (3)
|
Pres.
|
Gol
|
Pres.
|
Gol
|
Pres.
|
Gol
|
|
1960/61
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
1961/62
|
15
|
0
|
6
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
1962/63
|
31
|
4
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
|
1963/64
|
33
|
4
|
9
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
1964/65
|
32
|
2
|
6
|
1
|
3
|
0
|
|
1965/66
|
32
|
10
|
5
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
|
1966/67
|
34
|
4
|
10
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
|
1967/68
|
28
|
7
|
0
|
0
|
9
|
2
|
|
1968/69
|
30
|
6
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
1
|
|
1969/70
|
28
|
5
|
8
|
0
|
6
|
1
|
|
1970/71
|
30
|
5
|
2
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
|
1971/72
|
27
|
4
|
9
|
1
|
8
|
1
|
|
1972/73
|
29
|
1
|
5
|
0
|
10
|
3
|
|
1973/74
|
28
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
7
|
0
|
|
1974/75
|
23
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
8
|
1
|
|
1975/76
|
28
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
10
|
0
|
|
1976/77
|
27
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
9
|
1
|
|
1977/78
|
18
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
4
|
0
|
(1)
Championship 1st
Division, Serie A, (2) European Cups, (3) like F.A Cup
but much less important
In March 1963, only
twenty years old, Facchetti played his first match with
Italy National Team in Istanbul.
Facchetti played 94 international matches in 15 years and
was italian team captain for more ten years.
He played three World Cup Final Phase ('66,'70.'74) and
won the European Cup on 1968 (see photo).
Facchetti couldn't play his fourth World Cup because he
had some physical troubles few months before Argentina
'78 and so, aged thirty five, he decided to stop playing
football.
Now Facchetti work in the Management Staff of F.C.
Internazionale.

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Once again huge thanks
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