Giovanni Trapattoni, sometimes popularly known as 'Trap' or 'Il Trap', is an Italian football manager and former player, considered the most successful club coach of Italian football. A former defensive midfielder, as a player he spent almost his entire club career with AC Milan, where he won two Serie A league titles, and two European Cups, in 1962–63 and 1968–69. Internationally, he played for Italy, earning 17 caps and being part of the squad at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile.
Trapattoni as manager of the Republic of Ireland team in 2013
Trapattoni (centre) at the 1968 European Cup Winners' Cup Final in Rotterdam
Trapattoni (left) with the Italy national football team in 1963, opposed to the Brazilian Pelé.
Trapattoni as Milan manager at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam before the 1974 European Cup Winners' Cup Final in Rotterdam
Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Founded in 1899, the club competes in the Serie A, the top tier of Italian football, and has spent its entire history there with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons.
Herbert Kilpin, the club's first captain and one of its founding members
The AC Milan formation that won the Italian championship in 1901
AC Milan celebrating after winning the European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1968
Franco Baresi in 1979
