BIOGRAPHY

Fabio Cannavaro was born in Napels on September 13th 1973. He is the second of 3 kids (Renata and Paolo, Paolo is also a soccerplayer, ander after playing for Parma a few years, he now returned to Napoli). He starts to play soccer at a young age, and when he's 8 he already plays in the team of Bagnoli.

When he's 11 he start playing at Napoli and there he wins his first price. the junior championship of 1987. It's the golden period of Napoli, they win everything with Maradona, and Fabio follows every step of his idol as a ballboy in the San Paolo stadion. Not only Super Diego plays at Napoli, but also his favourite defender, Ciro Ferrara, he learns him everything, also the tackle... Once, when Fabio was a part of the juniorteam he made that kind of tackle against the great Maradona, and he was reprimended by the coach of the National team immediatly. "Pibe de Oro" chose the side of Cannavaro and said: Okay, it's okay like this.

When he makes his debut in the first team of Napoli (March 7th 1993), Maradona already left Napoli and Napoli has to depend on their promising talents of the junior squad. Fabio fights for results and uses all his explosive powers that make him the fastest defender in the Serie A.

The adventure in Napoli lasts for 3 seasons, in the summer of 1995 he goes to Parma, where he plays togheter with Buffon and Thuram. With them Parma wins the Coppa Italia and the Uefa Cup, the Supercoppa Italiana and they

After the department of Lilian Thuram to Juventus, Parma decided to make Fabio captain of the team. He is without a doubt a true leader of the team.

Togheter with the big successes at Parma he has big successes with the National team. He winst the European championship under the 21 twice, with the team trained by Cesare Maldini (1994 and 1996). Fabio makes his international debut on January 22th 1997 against North Ireland.

Adter playing at Parma for 7 years, he leaves in the summer of 2002 for a new adventure at Inter Milan.

Fabio participates at the World Championship of 1998 and 2002 and the European Championship of 2000 and 2002. In 2002 Paolo Maldini ends his International carreer and Fabio becomes the captain of Italy.

In 2004 Fabio moves to Turin and starts playing for Juventus. He wins the national championship twice, but they got stripped of because of a recent scandel. Juventus has to play in the Serie B and Fabio leaves them to play at Real Madrid.

In 2006 at the World Championship in Germany, Fabio gets the success he's been dreaming about. Italy becomes world champion. When he returend to Italy he was received by many enthousatic fans and he received the key of his hometown Napels, togheter with Ciro Ferrara.