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Arrigo Sacchi

1946 - Today

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Arrigo Sacchi (born 1 April 1946) is an Italian former professional football coach. He has twice managed AC Milan (1987–1991, 1996–1997), with great success. He won the Serie A title in his 1987–88 debut season and then dominated European football by winning back to back European Cups in 1989 and 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arrigo Sacchi has received more than 1,378,767 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Arrigo Sacchi is the 25th most popular coach (down from 24th in 2019), the 717th most popular biography from Italy (up from 726th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Coach.

Arrigo Sacchi is most famous for his role as the head coach of the Italian national football team during the 1990s. He is credited with the invention of the catenaccio style of football, which is a defensive-minded style of play.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Arrigo Sacchi ranks 25 out of 328Before him are Marcello Lippi, Ronald Koeman, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Dick Advocaat, Pep Guardiola, and Claudio Ranieri. After him are Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Otto Rehhagel, Jürgen Klopp, Ernst Happel, Fatih Terim, and Ottmar Hitzfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Arrigo Sacchi ranks 50Before him are Barry Gibb, Liza Minnelli, Robert Fripp, Masoud Barzani, Charles Dance, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. After him are André the Giant, Lars Vilks, Talia Shire, Sally Field, Bob Beamon, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Arrigo Sacchi ranks 717 out of 4,668Before him are Joachim of Fiore (1135), Athalaric (516), Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (1248), Pope Eusebius (250), Pope Vigilius (500), and Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429). After him are Alcmaeon of Croton (-510), Pinturicchio (1454), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901), Giacinto Facchetti (1942), Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (1759), and Maria Goretti (1890).

Among COACHES In Italy

Among coaches born in Italy, Arrigo Sacchi ranks 7Before him are Carlo Ancelotti (1959), Dino Zoff (1942), Giovanni Trapattoni (1939), Fabio Capello (1946), Marcello Lippi (1948), and Claudio Ranieri (1951). After him are Maurizio Sarri (1959), Luciano Spalletti (1959), Cesare Prandelli (1957), Massimiliano Allegri (1967), Enzo Bearzot (1927), and Alberto Zaccheroni (1953).