 Anquilletti withAC Milan in the 1968–69 season | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | 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
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Angelo Anquilletti (Italian pronunciation:[ˈandʒeloaŋkwilˈletti]; 25 April 1943 – 9 January 2015) was anItalian footballdefender.[1] A tough yet fair player, Anquiletti was a successful right-sidedfull-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 asweeper towards the end of his career.[2][3] He is mostly remembered for his lengthy spell withAC Milan and for being a member of theItalianUEFA 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]
Anquiletti Started his career inSerie D withSolbiatese during the 1964–65 season. In 1964 he played withAtalanta inSerie A, making his debut on 16 November 1964, at the age of 21, in a 1–0 away win overCagliari; he remained at the club for two seasons. From 1966 to 1977 played forAC Milan, where he achieved notable success, forming an impressive defensive line-up during his 11 seasons with the club alongsideCudicini,Trapattoni,Rosato, andSchnellinger, which was nicknamed theMaginot Line. He was notably part of theirEuropean Cup victory in1969, also winning the1967–68 Serie A title, twoEuropean Cup Winners' Cups (1967–68 and1972–73), the1969 Intercontinental Cup, and fourCoppa Italia titles (1966–67,1971–72, 1972–73, 1976–77). He notably scored two goals againstLevski 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'sninth 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 withMonza, spending 2 more seasons inSerie B before retiring in 1979, at the age of 36.[3][4][5]
Overall, he played 326 games in theSerie 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]
Anquiletti earned 2 caps for theItaly national football team, and was part of Italy'sUEFA Euro 1968 squad that won the tournament on home soil underValcareggi, despite not making an appearance throughout the cup. He made his international debut in January 1969, in a friendly tournament in Mexico which preceded the1970 FIFA World Cup, making his only two appearances for Italy againstMexico that year. He struggled to find space in the national side due to the presence ofTarcisio Burgnich andFabrizio Poletti in his role.[6]
Anquiletti died on 9 January 2015, at the age of 71, after struggling with a long illness.[7][8]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||
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| 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
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