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Capello: Portrait of a Winner (Hardcover)

by Gabriele Marcotti (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press (11 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0593061586
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593061589
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,600 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 - nine of them in 16 years - with every club he has taken charge of, from the great Milan team he helped create in the early 1990s to Real Madrid with David Beckham in 2007. Now he faces his greatest challenge yet, the challenge that he has said is his long-cherished dream, and the last of his glittering coaching career. To restore England to the top of the world football tree, to take his adopted country to the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, and to win it. For Capello, nothing less than the best will do. For England, it is win or bust. And you don't want to lose under Capello.In this, the first ever biography of the new England manager, award-winning writer Gabriele Marcotti travels from Capello's early days in Italy to his first months in his new job at Soho Square to tell the story of the man behind the steely glare, the method behind the sometimes manic behaviour. Capello's drive for success at any cost has seen him make 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.


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Ruthless perfectionist. Stubborn disciplinarian. In Fabio Capello, England have a football manager like no one that has gone before him. Nine league championships in sixteen years, a record of unbroken success at every club he has coached, from the great Milan team of the early 1990s, to Real Madrid with David Beckham in 2007. Wherever he goes, Capello commands respect – and gains results.

Now Capello faces his greatest challenge yet, a task that he says is his long-cherished dream. To take England back to the top of the football world, to take the team to the World Cup in South Africa in 2012, and to win it. For Capello, nothing but the best will do. For England, it is win or bust. And you don’t want to lose under Capello.

In Capello: Portrait of a Winner, Gabriele Marcotti untangles the complex character in whom England have invested their hopes and dreams. He talks to Capello’s associates, and to the many enemies he has made in his determined drive to the top as a player and then a manager. He examines Capello’s football philosophy, unveils the secrets behind his success, and gets behind the public persona to a man as comfortable visiting ancient ruins as standing on the touchline at Wembley. No one has ever got as close to Capello as Marcotti before, and this is not just the story of a remarkable career, but also the life of an extraordinary man.


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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars MARCOTTI DOES CAPELLO. BRILLIANTLY, INFACT., 9 Sep 2008
By Anthony Nesbitt (Liverpool, Merseyside, England.) - See all my reviews
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As a Marcotti fan, let me just state that Marcotti's biography is, for me, one of the best of the year, and easily joins Patrick Barclay's biography of Mourinho (as well as the Ferguson biography, "This Is The One"), as the definitive work on its subject. That said, what are you waiting for? Put the order in.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A well rendered and superbly researched life of England's manager, 16 May 2009
By J A C Corbett (Blackheath, London, UK) - See all my reviews
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In this impeccably researched and detailed life of Fabio Capello, Gabriel Marcotti succeeds in unraveling England's brilliant but frequently enigmatic manager. Perhaps because as English fans we are spoiled by foreign imports, Capello's true pedigree is sometimes underestimated. But Marcotti outlines in precise detail the extent of his successes: nine league titles in sixteen seasons at four different clubs. It is an achievement unparalleled in modern football.

Anyone who listens to Marcotti on FiveLive on a Friday night will be aware of his passion and knowledge of world football. He is a charming if not slightly anoraky broadcaster and comes across similarly in his biography of Capello . I particularly enjoyed the recounting of Capello's playing career in the 1960s and 1970s, also the account of his time with Milan in the early-1990s.

However, sometimes I felt bombarded by detail and that this book would have benefited from stricter editing. The prose is occasionally flabby and prone to cliché. Sometimes Marcotti is too keen to insert himself into the narrative and to validate his work by showing how close he is to a source.

But otherwise this is a fine, well researched and often compelling book that draws its elusive subject from his shell. Indeed after reading it, I feel more assured of England's prospects at the next World Cup than I have for a long time.
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3.0 out of 5 stars given as a gift, 30 Nov 2008
By Charlesgreen "charlie" (england) - See all my reviews
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This was given to me as a present, not into "sports" books in general. however I felt this book got bogged down in the italian league to much as I would have liked to find out more about his early life to see what makes him tick. Also not sure if the if the scorer of the first goal in fifa world cup history and the true hero of "the mathews cup final"Stan Mortensonever visited Italy as claimed as I believe Stan was involved in a plane crash in the early days of the war while he was in the RAF, must have been a typo simular to the dust jacket getting the next world cup date wrong.
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