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Franco Baresi dies. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are red verbatim
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  by a computer. Franco Barezi Dies Franco Barezi was an
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  Italian football player and manager. He mainly played as a
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  central defender and spent his entire twenty year career with
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  Syria club AC Milan, captaining the club for fifteen seasons.
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  Widely Regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time,
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  he was ranked ninth in World Soccer magazine's list of
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  the one hundred greatest players of the twentieth century. With Milan,
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  he won three European Cup slash YUEFA Champions League titles,
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  six Seria trophies, four Super Kappa Italiana titles, two European
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  Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups. With the Italy national team,
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  he was a member of the squad that won the
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  nineteen eighty two FIFA World Cup, the first in forty
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  four years. He also played in the nineteen ninety World Cup,
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  held on home soil, where he was named in the
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  FIFA World Cup All Star Team while leading them to
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  a third place in the tournament. At the nineteen ninety
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  four World Cup, he was named Italy's captain and was
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  part of the squad that reached the final, although he
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  would miss a penalty in the resulting shootout as Brazil
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  lifted the trophy. Barezi also represented Italy at two YUEFA
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  European Championships in nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty eight and
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  at the nineteen eighty four Olympics, reaching the semi finals
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  on each occasion. The younger brother of former footballer Giuseppe Barrezi.
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  After joining the Milan senior team as a youngster, Franco
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  Barrezi was initially nicknamed pisinan Milanese for little one. Due
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  to his skill and success, he was later known as
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  Kaiser Franz, a reference to fellow sweeper Franz Beckenbauer. In
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  nineteen ninety nine, he was voted Milan's Player of the Century.
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  After his final season at Milan in nineteen ninety seven,
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  the club retired Barezi shirt number six. He was named
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  by Pele one of the one hundred twenty five greatest
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  living footballers at the FIFA Centineri Awards ceremony in two
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  thousand and four. Barezi was inducted into the Italian Football
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  Hall of Fame in twenty thirteen. That's it for now.
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