Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini – Signed Photo – Soccer (Sampdoria)

GIANLUCA VIALLI BIOGRAPHY :
Gianluca Vialli (Cremona, 9 luglio 1964) è un dirigente sportivo, allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore italiano, di ruolo attaccante, capo delegazione della nazionale italiana. Tra i migliori centravanti degli anni 1980 e 1990, rientra nella ristretta cerchia dei calciatori che hanno vinto tutte e tre le principali competizioni UEFA per club, unico fra gli attaccanti. Vincitore di numerosi trofei in campo nazionale e internazionale, è stato capocannoniere dell’Europeo Under-21 1986, della Coppa Italia 1988-1989 — in cui ha stabilito, con 13 reti, il record assoluto di realizzazioni in una singola edizione del torneo —, della Coppa delle Coppe 1989-1990 e della Serie A 1990-1991. Tra il 1985 e il 1992 ha totalizzato 59 presenze e 16 reti nella nazionale italiana, prendendo parte a due Mondiali (Messico 1986 e Italia 1990) e un Europeo (Germania Ovest 1988); al suo attivo anche 21 gare e 11 gol con l’Under-21, con cui ha disputato due Europei di categoria (1984 e 1986). Più volte candidato al Pallone d’oro, si è classificato 7º nelle edizioni 1988 e 1991.[11] Nel 2015 è stato inserito nella Hall of Fame del calcio italiano.

Roberto Mancini (born 27 November 1964) is an Italian football manager and former player who is the manager of the Italy national team. As a player, Mancini operated as a deep-lying forward, and was best known for his time at Sampdoria, where he played more than 550 matches, and helped the team win the Serie A league title, four Coppa Italia titles, and the European Cup Winners’ Cup. He was capped 36 times for Italy, taking part at UEFA Euro 1988 and the 1990 FIFA World Cup, achieving semi-final finishes in both tournaments. In 1997, after 15 years at Sampdoria, Mancini left the club to join Lazio, where he won a further Scudetto, as well as the Cup Winners’ Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and two more Coppa Italia titles. As a player, Mancini would often give team talks at half-time. Towards the end of his playing career he became an assistant to Sven-Göran Eriksson at Lazio. His first manager role was at a cash-strapped Fiorentina at only 35 years old. He won a Coppa Italia there, but left with the team facing bankruptcy. Months later he took over as manager at Lazio, where again he inherited financial constraints and was forced to lose a number of key players. With limited resources during his two-season tenure, he guided the club to another Coppa Italia. In 2004, Mancini was given the chance to manage a major club with more resources when he was offered the manager’s job at Inter. During his first tenure at Inter, the club won three consecutive Serie A titles, an Inter club record, and an Italian record 17 consecutive league game victories stretching nearly half a season; Mancini became Inter’s most successful manager in 30 years. Despite his domestic success, many pundits saw the repeated failure to win the coveted Champions League as the main reason for his dismissal in 2008. After being out of football for over a year, Mancini was appointed Manchester City manager in December 2009. Under his stewardship, he instilled a winning culture at the club, taking Manchester City from a mid-table club to the top level of English football, combining defensive solidity with attacking flair. In the 2010–11 season, his first full season at Manchester City, Mancini guided the club to Champions League football and the FA Cup, the club’s first major trophy in 35 years. In the 2011–12 season, Mancini guided Manchester City to the club’s first league title in 44 years in an enthralling last day of the season, winning 3–2, with two goals in injury time in what was called “the best match of the best last day of the season in English football history.” Under Mancini, City progressed to the 2013 FA Cup Final, but were defeated by the soon-to-be relegated Wigan Athletic 1–0. Mancini was sacked two days later, before took over at Turkish club Galatasaray in September 2013, winning the Turkish Cup in his only season at the club. He then returned to Inter for two more years before managing Russian side Zenit. In 2018 he took charge of the Italian national team. Regarded as a cup specialist, Mancini has reached at least a semi-final of a major national cup competition in every season he has been a manager, from 2002 to 2014. He holds a number of records, including most consecutive Coppa Italia finals from 2004 to 2008, with Lazio once in 2004 and with Inter in the following four seasons.