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Capello
/ kæˈpɛləʊ /
noun
- CapelloFabio1946MItalianSPORT AND GAMES: footballerSPORT AND GAMES: coach Fabio. born 1946. Italian football player and coach; he won four Italian league titles with Milan and two Spanish league titles with Real Madrid; managed England (2008–12)
Example Sentences
Tuchel's appointment as a non-English manager of the men's England team - following Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson and Italian Fabio Capello - has raised questions about the pathway for English managers to elite level jobs.
He is the first England boss to have won a major trophy in one of Europe's top leagues, or a European trophy, since their last foreign coach - Fabio Capello, who was appointed 17 years ago.
German Tuchel, 51, becomes only the third non-British permanent boss of the England men's team after Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.
Sven-Goran Eriksson, between 2001 and 2006, and Fabio Capello, from 2008 to 2012, are the only previous non-British permanent England men's bosses.
Unlike Eriksson and Capello when they came to the job, Tuchel has prior experience of working in English football.
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