Gennaro Gattuso

Say Gattuso and I instantly picture those burning, attack-dog eyes. Rising from a poor town in Italy's Calabria, he made his name in Milan's midfield not with flair but with relentless running, tackling, and ferocious loyalty. He was never the silky technician; he was sweat, fire, and heart, and that honesty is what stirs me. Moving into management, he climbed all the way to coaching the Italian national team, carrying that same scrappy intensity to the touchline. I have a deep fondness for figures like him: unpolished, sometimes graceless, but utterly without pretense. He embodies the soul of the game.

Name (English)

Gennaro Gattuso

Name (Japanese)

ジェンナーロ・ガットゥーゾ

Reading

じぇんなーろ・がっとぅーぞ

Born

January 9, 1978 (age 48)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Horse

Origin

Corigliano Calabro, Province of Cosenza, Italy

Height

177 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Awards & achievements

• Gold Collar for Sports Merit
• 2006 Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

• Official sitehttp://gennarogattuso.sport.tiscali.it
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennaro%20Gattuso
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116980

Tags

• Province of Cosenza
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.