Arrigo Sacchi is an Italian former football coach. He was twice manager of Milan , with great success. He won the Serie A title in his 1987–88 debut season and then dominated European football by winning back to back European Cups in 1989 and 1990. From 1991 to 1996, he was head coach of the Italy national team and led them to the 1994 FIFA World Cup final, only to lose to Brazil in a penalty shoot-out.
Sacchi is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all-time and his Milan side is widely regarded to be one of the greatest club sides to ever play the game, and by some to be the greatest of all-time.Sacchi was never a professional football player and for many years worked as a shoe salesman. This led to his famous quote directed at those who questioned his qualifications: "I never realised that in order to become a jockey you have to have been a horse first." Another famous Sacchi quote is, “Football is the most important of the least important things in life“.
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“A jockey does not have to have been a racehorse.”
Quoted in "Inverting the Pyramid" by Jonathan Wilson (2008).
