Roberto Baggio

Roberto Baggio (born on February 18, 1967 at Caldogno, Italy) is a former footballer who italia. He won an award as FIFA Player of the Year in 1993. He is Italy's best player when defending his team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The best outcome is the runner-up in the Italian national team at the 1994 World Cup.
Early


Baggio was born in Caldogno, Veneto. As a child, she always had an interest in sports and played football for the local youth club for nine years.  After scoring 6 goals in one game, Baggio was persuaded by scout Antonio Mora to join Vicenza.

Roberto Baggio defend Vicenza 

Clubs
Baggio began a professional career in the original club Vicenza in Serie C1 during 1982. Fiorentina snapped him up in 1985, and for years there, he rose to cult status among the team's fans who consider themselves as one of their best players ever. He made his debut in Serie A 21 September 1986 against Sampdoria. He scored his first league goal on May 10, 1987 in the match against Napoli best remembered for Napoli winning the Scudetto for the first time in their history.

Roberto Baggio Fiorentina defended

He was sold to Juventus amid protests from fans of Fiorentina in 1990 for € 12 million (U.S. $ 19 million), the world record transfer of football players at the moment. After the transfer, there is a full-scale rioting in the streets of Florence where fifty people were answering fans injured.Baggio said: "I was forced to accept the transfer".In 1993 he won a single European club trophy, helping Juventus to the UEFA Cup final in which he scored two goals. His appearance earned him both the European Player of the Year and FIFA World Player of the Year.

Roberto Baggio Juventus defense 

Baggio won his first Scudetto with Juventus in 1995. This is the first of many league titles to come for Juventus in the 1990s.

Roberto Baggio defend AC Milan

After strong pressure from Milan chairman Silvio Berlusconi, and because he was a minority to the emerging talent Alessandro Del Piero, he was sold to the Milan club. At this time, he has been linked with Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League, but no firm offers were made from one of these clubs.He helped the club win the Serie A title, became the first player to win the Scudetto in consecutive years with different teams.In 1997, when he was thought to be on the downside, Baggio transferred to Bologna in order to resuscitate his career, and after scoring a personal best 22 goals that year, which included the starting eleven Italy for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in place of the younger and Alessandro Del Piero supports. Cesare Maldini has since criticized Del Piero to start in front of Baggio, who clearly in better form, for the quarter-final against France. When Baggio did come on for Del Piero, Italy seemed to play much better. Cesare Maldini later apologized to Baggio for not giving the playing time he deserves.

Roberto Baggio defend Internazionale

After the 1998 World Cup, Baggio signed with Internazionale. This proved to be a poor move, as coach Marcello Lippi and unfavorable Baggio and hardly played him. This led Baggio to lose a place in the national team. In his autobiography, Baggio later declared that Lippi had effectively dumped him after Baggio refused to indicate where the Inter players had expressed negative opinions about the coach. Last contribution to Inter are two goals against Parma in the playoff for the last remaining UEFA Champions League place.After two years with Inter, in order to be called for World Cup 2002, he moved to the previous mode of Brescia. At the beginning of 2001-02 season, he scored eight goals in the first nine games. Unfortunately, during the season, he tore the meniscus ligament and anterior cruciate in his left knee; despite this serious injury, he returned three games before the end of the season, making just 76 days of recovery. In the first game after a comeback, he scored two goals against former team Fiorentina, their first after only two minutes from the beginning of the game. Then he scored again against the other teams he played for, Bologna. However, Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni did not take Baggio to Korea and Japan, considering he has not fully recovered from injury. Enthusiasts and experts criticized the omission of Baggio, and Italy without Baggio inspiration eliminated before reaching the quarter-finals, failed to reach expectations.

Roberto Baggio Brescia defended

Baggio continued playing at Brescia until his retirement in 2004. He played the last game on May 16, 2004 at the San Siro against Milan. Within 88 minutes, Brescia coach Gianni De Biasi Baggio subbed out so he could get a curtain call. 80,000 attended the San Siro gave him a standing ovation. He ended his career with 205 goals in Serie A, making him the fifth highest scorer of all time behind Silvio Piola, Gunnar Nordahl, Giuseppe Meazza and José Altafini. Number 10 of his jersey was retired by Brescia. He scored 300 career goals on December 16, 2002 in Brescia's 3-1 home victory over Piacenza. He was the first player in more than 50 years to reach this milestone, behind only Piola (364) and Meazza.

Roberto Baggio Italy Caps

1990 FIFA World CupBaggio's first World Cup was the 1990 FIFA World Cup, and although he is most often used as a substitute in the tournament, he still can show his quality, scoring twice including the "goal of the tournament" against Czechoslovakia. Baggio is also much remembered for his class; although the designated penalty taker regularly for his team, he stepped aside when Italy was awarded one in the third place game, teams are allowed to print Salvatore Schillaci and catch the Golden Shoes.1994 FIFA World CupBaggio was the cornerstone of the Italian team during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, leading them to the finals after a disappointing start. He scored five goals, all in the knockout phase, and he started every game from the beginning: two in the round of 16 to beat Nigeria (scored with 2 minutes left sending the game into extra time, and another goal in extra time), one in round quarter-finals to the Spanish (the game winner with 3 minutes remaining) and two to beat Bulgaria in the semi-finals. Baggio was not fully fit for the final against Brazil, which ended 0-0 after extra time, he took the last penalty for Italy in the shootout, but the kick went to the cross-bar and Brazil won the title. Two Italians, Franco Baresi and Daniele Massaro, had lost his punishment.Baggio finished tied for third in the tournament in goals scored and was named one of three players.1998 FIFA World CupIn the opening match of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Italy played Chile. The first goal by Christian Vieri printed on helping by Baggio. Chile led 2-1, and Baggio who then makes a good pass to Filippo Inzaghi but the Chilean keeper Nelson Tapia made an excellent save to keep the score 2-1. That is just the third time a team lead over Italy in the World Cup throughout the 1990s (not accurate Rep. Ireland beat Italy 1-0 at World Cup in the United States in 1994). Toward the end of the game a Baggio cross Chilean defender touched the hand, lead to penalties assessed by Baggio, making the score 2-2. With this aim, he became the first Italian player who scored a goal in three World Cup.He scored two goals in the tournament, he also scored the winning goal against Austria as Italy top their groups.In the quarter-final against France, Baggio came as a substitute in the second half. Italy only five shots in the entire game, one of whom was only a few inches away, from none other than Baggio score remained 0-0 and the match went to a shootout.
Individual Playing honours:

• U-23 European Footballer of the Year: 1990
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup top scorer: 1990-91
• European Footballer of the Year (Ballon d'Or/Golden Ball): 1993
• FIFA World Player of the Year: 1993
• Platinum Football award by TV Sorrisi and Canzoni: 1992
• Onze D'Or by French Magazine 'Onze Mondial': 1993
• Bravo award with Fiorentina: 1990
• Golden Guerin with Vicenza: 1985
• Golden Guerin with AC Milan: 1996
• Golden Guerin with Brescia: 2001
• Azzuri Team of The Century: 2000
• FIFA Dream Team of All-Time: 2002
• 'Most Loved Player' Award via Internet Polls: 2001
• 'Most Loved Player' Award at the Italian Oscars: 2002
• FIFA 100: 2004
• World Soccer Awards 100 Greatest Players of the 20th Century #16
• Giuseppe Prisco award: 2004
• The Champions Promenade - Golden Foot 2003
• Guerin's Sportivo 150 Grandi del Secolo
• Placar's 100 Craques do Seculo
• Planète Foot's 50 Meilleurs Joueurs du Monde
• Italy All-time XI by Football Italia
• Juventus All-time XI by Football Italia
• Brescia All-time XI by Football Italia