Maldini Cesare - the legend of world football at all times

The Italian masters of football have always been characterized by their technicality, intransigence and speed. In the galaxy of outstanding players of the Iberian Peninsula, a man named Maldini Cesare stands alone, who at one time was rightly considered one of the strongest central defenders of the whole European continent by specialists and spectators. About his intense fate and outstanding sports career will be discussed in this article.

Few facts

Maldini Cesare was born on February 5, 1932 in the Italian city of Trieste. In the best years of his speeches, he was the one who was considered the most reliable stopper in Europe. Footballer very competently played, clearly and quickly chose the right position, due to which he almost did not have to spread in subcuts or run after his opponents, played excellently on the "second floor", perfectly blocked the body of players of the opposing team. And even despite the fact that its growth was quite large, it was still characterized by mobility, ease and mobility. It is noteworthy that in the club he could quite cope even with the role of the midfielder, while in the team he played the position of libero. Sometimes he could be involved as a flank defender.

Life in Milan

In one of the strongest clubs in Italy, Maldini Cesare spent as many as thirteen seasons. Together with the team, the legendary sportsman experienced all the periods of recovery and recession. The peak of the career for the defender was the victory of "Milan" in the Cup of European champions in 1963. At the same time, the football player was also a captain.

Team play

Maldini Cesare can not be called the player who played a lot of matches for the main team of the country. But at the same time his authority during the speeches in it was indisputable and undeniable. For all his playing practice, he was only 14 times summoned to the ranks of the Italian team, but even for such a period he was able to become its captain. As a player participated in the World Cup in 1962 and the European Championship in 1964.

At the coaching post

Cesare Maldini - coach, who in life was very respected. For five years at the beginning of his career, he worked as an assistant coach for Milan, after which he was already the head coach in Foggia, Ternare, Parma, where he could not achieve any meaningful results.

However, in the period 1986-1996, the Italian was able to fully reveal himself as a magnificent mentor. It was in this decade that he was able to win the European Cup three times from the youth team of Italy and to bring up a whole galaxy of players who later became real world stars.

Work with the "Squadron Azzurro"

Success with the youth team quite logically led to the fact that Cesare Maldini received an invitation to lead the main team. And in December 1996 he officially becomes the head coach of the Italian team number one. In comparison with his predecessor, Arigo Saki, who was a fan of various high-flown phrases, Maldini was much easier, and in dealing with players very often allowed even excessive softness, not always clearly distanced, which eventually led to not very good results. As Italian journalists said at the time, the team had not seen a softer coach yet.

Italy with great difficulty was able to break into the main grid of the 1998 World Cup, on the way having overcome in the playoffs the Russian national team. But already on the margins of France, Italian footballers could not create such a miracle expected from them, losing in the quarterfinals to the future champions - the hosts of the tournament to the French. As a result, such a result led to the fact that Cesare could not withstand the pressure and resigned, because from him only championships were expected. Although, objectively speaking, he did everything he could. The defense was on top (the team did not lose a single match in the group, and this is a very high figure), the attack was regularly scored, but the midfield deflected, because in Italy itself, in clubs, these positions were mostly played by foreign legionaries. Simply put, the staffing deficit has done its worst.

A family

The biography of Cesare Maldini will be incomplete, if not to point out his numerous family. His wife's name is Maria Luisa Maldini. The couple raised six children: three sons - Paolo, Piercezare and Alessandro, three daughters - Monica, Dontaella, Valentina. There are already grandsons. The four heirs, like their father, devoted themselves to sports.

Departure to South America

Cesare Maldini, a biography whose achievements are worthy of all respect, headed the national team of Paraguay before the beginning of the 2002 mundialya. It goes without saying that the team did not become a world champion, but managed to reach the one eighth final, which at that time was the maximum bar for hot Latinos.

Initially, Cesare press predicted the departure to Tunisia and work with the local team, but as a result, the coach was completely on the other side of the planet, and, as he himself argued, in many ways this decision was actively contributed by his son Paolo.

By the way, to the very Paolo in his time there were many complaints from journalists and his colleagues in the shop. During his stay in the ranks of the national team, which was then coached by his father, he stubbornly refused to call Cesare "Mr.", as required by professional etiquette, and called "dad", motivating that he could not call his father somehow -other.

Death

The legendary football player and coach died on April 3, 2016. At that time he was already 84 years old. The grateful public in honor of the great athlete decided to break the park of his name near the Milan stadium "San Siro", thereby giving him a tribute of respect and honor.