Angelo Anquilletti
Anquilletti with AC Milan in the 1968–69 season
Personal information
Date of birth (1943-04-25)25 April 1943
Place of birth San Donato Milanese, Italy
Date of death 9 January 2015(2015-01-09) (aged 71)
Place of death Milan, Italy
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1964 Solbiatese 90 (0)
1964–1966 Atalanta 48 (0)
1966–1977 AC Milan 278 (0)
1977–1979 Monza 41 (0)
Total 457 (0)
International career
1969 Italy 2 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Italy (as player)
UEFA European Championship
Winner 1968 Italy
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Angelo Anquilletti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo aŋkwilˈletti]; 25 April 1943 – 9 January 2015) was an Italian football defender.[1] A tough yet fair player, Anquiletti was a successful right-sided full-back, who was known for his strength, energy, work-rate, positioning, marking ability, anticipation, and his ability to read the game; he also excelled in the air and was confident on the ball and at distributing it to teammates, which also enabled him to be deployed as a sweeper towards the end of his career.[2][3] He is mostly remembered for his lengthy spell with AC Milan and for being a member of the Italian UEFA Euro 1968 winning squad. Anquiletti was known by the fans as "Angelo Anguilla" (Angelo the Eel), due to his man-marking ability, and wore the number 2 shirt throughout his successful Milan career.[4]

Club career

Anquiletti Started his career in Serie D with Solbiatese during the 1964–65 season. In 1964 he played with Atalanta in Serie A, making his debut on 16 November 1964, at the age of 21, in a 1–0 away win over Cagliari; he remained at the club for two seasons. From 1966 to 1977 played for AC Milan, where he achieved notable success, forming an impressive defensive line-up during his 11 seasons with the club alongside Cudicini, Trapattoni, Rosato, and Schnellinger, which was nicknamed the Maginot Line. He was notably part of their European Cup victory in 1969, also winning the 1967–68 Serie A title, two European Cup Winners' Cups (1967–68 and 1972–73), the 1969 Intercontinental Cup, and four Coppa Italia titles (1966–67, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1976–77). He notably scored two goals against Levski Sofia in the first leg of the first round of the victorious 1967–68 edition of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Overall, he made 418 appearances for Milan, and is the club's ninth all-time appearance holder; 278 of his appearances came in Serie A, 71 in the Coppa Italia, 63 in European Competitions, and 6 in other competitions. He ended his career with Monza, spending 2 more seasons in Serie B before retiring in 1979, at the age of 36.[3][4][5]

Overall, he played 326 games in the Serie A for Atalanta and Milan, and 41 games in Serie B, although he was unable to score a goal in the Italian leagues throughout his career.[2][4][5]

International career

Anquiletti earned 2 caps for the Italy national football team, and was part of Italy's UEFA Euro 1968 squad that won the tournament on home soil under Valcareggi, despite not making an appearance throughout the cup. He made his international debut in January 1969, in a friendly tournament in Mexico which preceded the 1970 FIFA World Cup, making his only two appearances for Italy against Mexico that year. He struggled to find space in the national side due to the presence of Tarcisio Burgnich and Fabrizio Poletti in his role.[6]

Death

Anquiletti died on 9 January 2015, at the age of 71, after struggling with a long illness.[7][8]

Career statistics

Club

[2]

Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Solbiatese 1961–62 21 0 - - - - - - 21 0
1962–63 33 0 - - - - - - 33 0
1963–64 36 0 - - - - - - 36 0
Atalanta 1964–65 16 0 2 0 - - - - 18 0
1965/66 32 0 3 0 - - - - 35 0
AC Milan 1966–67 28 0 5 0 - - 5 0 38 0
1967–68 30 0 10 0 10 2 - - 50 2
1968–69 30 0 3 0 7 0 - - 40 0
1969–70 26 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 35 0
1970–71 28 0 12 0 - - - - 40 0
1971–72 28 0 10 0 10 0 - - 48 0
1972–73 28 0 5 0 8 0 - - 41 0
1973–74 29 0 3 0 11 0 - - 43 0
1974–75 11 0 5 0 - - - - 16 0
1975–76 22 0 10 0 8 0 - - 40 0
1976–77 18 0 5 0 5 0 - - 28 0
Monza 1977–78 32 0 3 0 - - - - 35 0
1978–79 9 0 0 0 - - - - 9 0
Total for Milan 278 0 71 0 62 2 8 0 419 2
Career totals 457 0 79 0 62 2 8 0 605 2

*European competitions include the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup, and UEFA Super Cup

Honours

AC Milan[4][5]

Italy[2]

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Angelo Anquilletti - Player Profile - Football". Eurosport. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Enciclopedia del Calcio, 2011: Anquiletti, Angelo". enciclopediadelcalcio.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "A.C. Milan Hall of Fame: ANGELO ANQUILLETTI". A.C. Milan. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d "Milan, morto Anquilletti, storico numero 2 degli Anni 70". gazzetta.it (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  5. ^ a b c "Mario Angelo ANQUILLETTI". magliarossonera (in Italian). Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Nazionale in cifre - Convocazioni e presenze in campo: Anquiletti, Angelo". figc.it (in Italian). FIGC. Archived from the original on 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  7. ^ "AC Milan mourns Anquilletti". acmilan.com. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  8. ^ "TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO ANGELO ANQUILLETTI". acmilan.com. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

External links

Italy squad – UEFA Euro 1968 winners (1st title)
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