Book description
Fabio Capello is a born winner. As a midfielder with Roma, Juventus
and Milan, he won four Italian league championships and two cups, and
played for his country 32 times, scoring a goal at Wembley in 1973 in
Italy's first ever win in England. As a manager, Capello's fierce
determination has seen him win championships with every club he has
taken charge of, from Milan in the early 1990s to Real Madrid with
David Beckham in 2007. Now he faces his greatest challenge yet: to
restore England to the top of world football and take them to the
World Cup in South Africa in 2010 - and win. For Capello, nothing less
than the best will do.
In Capello: Portrait of a Winner, award-winning writer
Gabriele Marcotti travels from Capello's early days in Italy to the
first months in his new job to tell the story of the man behind the
steely glare. Capello has made more than a few enemies over the years,
and Marcotti has talked to them all, as well as his closest
associates. No-one has ever got this close to Capello before, and this
is the story not just of a remarkable career, but of the life of a
truly extraordinary man.
Gabriele Marcotti is the World Football Correspondent for
The Times
and UK correspondent for the
Corriere dello Sport
. He is also a columnist for
Sports Illustrated
, presents a weekly show on BBC Radio Five Live and is a regular analyst
on Bravo, Setanta and Sky Sports News. His books include
The Italian
Job: A Journey to the Heart of Two Great Footballing Cultures
, co-written with Gianluca Vialli and also published by Bantam Press,
which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award
in 2006.
