page_title: Claudio Gentile
section_title: Club career
hierarchical_section_title: Claudio Gentile / Club career
caption_attribution_description: A moment of Juventus — Varese (3:0) at Stadio Comunale in Turin, 16 February 1975, 18th matchday of 1974-75 Serie A championship. Juventus defender Claudio Gentile is on the front; at his shoulders there's Varese striker Giannantonio Sperotto.
context_page_description: Claudio Gentile is an Italian association football manager and former defender of the 1970s and 1980s.
  Gentile appeared for Italy in two World Cup tournaments, and played for the winning Italian team in the 1982 final. His club career was notably spent with Juventus for whom he made almost 300 league appearances, winning six national titles and two major European trophies.
context_section_description: After beginning his career with Arona, Gentile played in Serie B with Varese during the 1972–73 season.
  He then moved to Juventus and first played for them in a Coppa Italia match against Ascoli Calcio on 29 August 1973, with his Serie A debut following on 2 December 1973 against Verona. In all he played 414 senior matches for Juventus, including 283 in Serie A. In over a decade with Juventus, Gentile won two major European club competitions (1976–77 UEFA Cup and 1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup), six Serie A championships, and two Coppa Italias. He also reached the final of the 1982–83 European Cup with the Turin club, only to suffer a 1–0 defeat against Hamburg in Athens.
  In 1984, he moved to rivals Fiorentina where he spent three further seasons in Serie A, making over 60 appearances for the club. He then played a final season with Piacenza, in Serie B, retiring at the end of the 1987–88 season.
caption: Gentile playing for Juventus in 1975
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