Gennaro Gattuso

Date of birth: 9 January 1978
Nationality: Italian
Playing career: Perugia, Rangers, Salernitana, Milan, Sion
Coaching career: Sion, Palermo, OFI Crete, Pisa, Milan Under-19s, Milan, Napoli

• Gattuso joined Rangers as a teenager after Perugia suffered relegation from Serie A in 1997 and returned to Italy in October 1998, joining first Salernitana and then, at the start of 1999/2000, Milan.

• After helping the Azzurrini win the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, he marked his first start for the senior national side with the only goal of the game against England in a November 2000 friendly in Turin.

• Though a fringe player for Italy at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA EURO 2004 he was a key protagonist at the 2006 World Cup, winning the man of the match award in the quarter-final against Ukraine and excelling in the final against France; also appeared at UEFA EURO 2008 and the 2010 World Cup, retiring after the latter tournament having won 73 caps.

• A UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup winner with Milan in 2003 and 2007, and part of the side that suffered a dramatic defeat by Liverpool in the 2005 UEFA Champions League final, Gattuso also won the Scudetto in 2004 and 2011, the Coppa Italia in 2003 and the FIFA Club World Cup in 2007. Hung up his boots in 2013 after a season in Switzerland with Sion, where he took his first steps into management as player-coach as the replacement for Víctor Muñoz in February 2013.

• Left Sion that May and subsequently had short spells in charge at Palermo and in Greece with OFI Crete before leading Pisa to promotion to Serie B in 2015/16. Returned to Milan in May 2017 as coach of the Under-19 Primavera side, stepping up to the first team in November following Vincenzo Montella's departure. Left the club in May 2019, and returned to coaching seven months later, succeeding his former Rossoneri boss Carlo Ancelotti at Napoli.