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Franco Baresi

Italian association football player (1960–2026)

  • Fame78.9
  • Momentum13.2
  • Italy rank#33
Source-basedLegacy
  • Fame78.9
  • Momentum13.2
  • Italy rank#33
  • Footballers rank#31
  • Wikipedia973.7K
Lived 1960–2026, aged 66Italy
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  • Wikipedia
    58 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Italy
    #33
    Footballers
  • Era
    1960–2026
    Aged 66
  • Awards
    3
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-08-31

Franchino Baresi is an Italian football youth team coach and a former player and manager. He mainly played as a sweeper or as a central defender, and spent his entire 20-year career with Serie A club AC Milan, captaining the club for 15 seasons. Widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time, he was ranked 19th in World Soccer magazine's list of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century. With Milan, he won three European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, six Serie A trophies, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, two European Super Cups and two Intercontinental Cups, as well as a World Cup with Italy.

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Teams

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  • Italy men's national association football team
    1982–1994
  • Italy national under-21 football team
    1979–1982
  • AC Milan
    1977–1997
19771997
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Season stats

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1982–1994811
1979–1982101
1977–199753116
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Awards

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  • Gold Collar for Sports Merit
  • Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • gold medal for athletic prowess
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Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Stable
78.9
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum13.2
Historical53.3
Now attention43.2
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
Global rank
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Country rank
#33
Category rank
#31
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