Capello, Pengurus Pasukan Bola Sepak England yang baru

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The numbers are hard to argue with: nine league titles and one Champions League in 16 years as a coach make Fabio Capello supremely qualified to be England manager.

But, and England fans might regard this as no bad thing, the 61-year-old has not been afraid to upset egos and even ostracise some of the biggest names in football - ask David Beckham or Ronaldo.
His first team - the AC Milan of the early 1990s - was arguably his best.

Inheriting the Dutch trio of Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard from Arrigo Sacchi, Capello ruled Italian football for five years.

Four Scudetti mark their domestic dominance but it was the 1994 Champions League victory over Barcelona in Athens which was Capello's crowning achievement at the San Siro.

The glory of Athens quickly faded as Milan finished fourth in Serie A and were defeated in the Champions League final by an Ajax side featuring a new generation of Dutch talent.

Wounded

The Scudetto was regained in 1996 but at the end of the season he was on his way to Real Madrid, his pride wounded when he learned Milan were grooming the Uruguayan Oscar Washington Tabarez to take charge.
Tabarez duly took over but, while Capello was away winning the Spanish league title with Real Madrid, Milan had a disastrous year.

Capello had made his point and was recalled to the San Siro for the beginning of the 1997-98 season.
But 'Don Fabio' found he no longer exerted the same influence he had once enjoyed over the Milan players and could do nothing to prevent a miserable season - Milan finished 10th - or his own departure from the club for the second time.

After a year out of the game Capello was back, this time with perennial Italian underachievers Roma. And it was there that Capello rediscovered his touch.

He claimed the Scudetto again - only the third in Roma's history - in 2000-01 and finished second both the following year and in 2003-04 but his tenure was marked by a venomous fall-out with Francesco Totti.
But Capello's remarkable track record persuaded Juventus to tempt him to the Stadio delle Alpi.

He recruited Brazilian midfield general Emerson from Roma for £19.5million and added him to a team featuring the likes of Alessandro del Piero, Pavel Nedved, David Trezeguet and Lilian Thuram.

Another league title followed but he was denied another Champions League final in Athens when Juventus were drawn against a Liverpoool side apparently fated to win.

Innocent

And his time in Turin ended in 2006 with the club embroiled in a grubby match-fixing case which left the integrity of Italian football at an all-time low and Juve stripped of a Scudetto, even if Capello was entirely innocent.

Fortunately for him, Real Madrid came calling again to offer a way out when new club president Ramon Calderon nailed his colours to Capello's mast - declaring him the coach most likely to get the best out of a talented team.

Capello's passion for defensive football was not popular but the Italian dismissed the criticism and insisted results were more important than style.

At first, he achieved neither and publicly lambasted Beckham, Ronaldo and Antonio Cassano.
Ronaldo left for Italy shortly after but Beckham, having been exiled from the first team following the announcement of his summer move to Los Angeles Galaxy, was brought back as Madrid rallied to take advantage of a loss of nerve at Barcelona and win Capello's second Primera Liga title.

It was not enough to prevent his sacking and speculation had Capello either retiring or taking a job in Major League Soccer.

Now, however, he is in line to take up what will be the biggest challenge of his career - turning England from international also-rans into genuine contenders.