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Benito Carbone's height is 5ft 6in (1.68 m)Benito "Benny" Carbone (born 14 August 1971 in Bagnara) is an Italian football manager and retired player. He most recenty worked at Leeds United as 'Special Consultant to the Board of Directors'. He played as a forward, winger or midfielder. During his...
Outrageous overhead kicks and audacious lobs.
Stunning strikes from Di Canio & Carbone feature in our rundown of the 10 best #BPL goals scored by Sheffield Wednesday FC...
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Roberto Carlos jumps on Paul Ince and Benito Carbone, 1995/96.
Italy (Under 21) Campionato Europeo 1994 (Montpellier).
Benito Carbone en el Aston Villa-Sheffield Wednesday 1999/00.
The Road More Travelled: Di Canio, Carbone and the perils of youth
Saturday afternoon sees Bradford City go up against a Swindon outfit flying high in League Two, led by rookie manager Paolo Di Canio. The hiring of the controversial, nomadic Italian caused some unrest in the Swindon ranks, with GMB pulling their sponsorship due to the political views of the newly-appointed manager. The appointment will undoubtedly have led to some soul searching within the Swindon Town fan base, the sort of which I was guilty of yesterday. However, the successful start to the season may put an end to that.
Controversy has followed Di Canio at every step throughout his career, and this has been carried over the managerial threshold, a televised bust-up with Leon Clarke making the news earlier this season. Controversy also seemed to follow his compatriot and peer Benito Carbone, undoubtedly one of Bradford City’s most famous sons, Di Canio's opposition on Saturday. The careers of Carbone and Di Canio have dovetailed remarkably throughout their career, their paths meeting for an ill-fated two year spell in Sheffield in the late 1990s, and these fluctuations are even true today in their burgeoning post-playing careers. For better or worse both of these men are defined by their youth, and hard as they try, they fail to escape the adolescent inside.
Initiated as an Ultra during his childhood as a S.S. Lazio supporter, Di Canio was born into controversy. Although the S.S. stands for societá sportive, “Lazio merits the abbreviation's worst connotations” notes Franklin Foer. Founded by Italian army officers at the turn of the century, S.S. Lazio were themselves, Mussolini’s team.
Di Canio was initiated at an unfortunate time, when immigration was growing in Italy, especially throughout the nation’s football teams. The Ultras of S.S. Lazio exhibited an anti-Semitic, xenophobic venom within their ranks, something which still exists today. Even now, Lazio refrain from recruiting black players, and the majority of foreign imports arrive from countries with fascist pasts. The side’s long time defender and leader, Sinisa Mihajlovic, hailing from Serbia, often spoke of his links with Zeljko Raznatovic, better known as Arkan, the Serbian war criminal.
A self proclaimed Fascist, Di Canio has the word “Dux” tattooed on his arm, in reference to ‘Il Duce’, Benito Mussolini. A man described by Di Canio as “basically a very principled, ethical individual, deeply misunderstood.”
On the field, the controversial Italian’s career was marred by short stints wherever he landed. After coming through the ranks at boyhood club Lazio, earning promotion from Serie B in the process, he jumped to Turin spending three years at Juventus, alongside the likes of Roberto Baggio, Toto Schillaci and Andreas Moeller. Although Di Canio was never first choice during the period, scoring only 6 goals in three seasons, he managed to make more than 70 appearances. This was a relative down period for the storied club, the only success being the ’93 UEFA Cup after the return of Giovanni Trapattoni as manager. Di Canio was replaced soon after by Alessandro Del Piero, who along with Baggio, led them to their first Scudetto in eight years the subsequent season.
After an in-and-out season at Napoli under Marcelo Lippi where he replaced Gianfranco Zola, Di Canio moved to the reigning champions, Fabio Capello’s AC Milan, again as a bit-part player. He managed to win his first, and only, Scudetto in 1996 in a team carried by Baggio, George Weah and Dejan Savicevic.
After that season he fled Italy for Glasgow, signing for Celtic in a £1m deal. His performance improved at the lower level, notching twelve league goals, however the drop in quality led to him famously storming out of a training session vowing never to return, due to the inferior quality of his teammates. He left Celtic after one unsuccessful season, engineering a move to Sheffield Wednesday, which saw Regi Blinker move in the opposite direction. He was replaced in Glasgow by Swedish forward Henrik Larsson. Celtic won the title the next season for the first time in ten years.
At Wednesday, Di Canio produced the form of his career, scoring 23 goals in 41 appearances; however the side regressed from 7th place the season before, one place out of the European positions, down to 16th, in spite of the controversial Italian’s contribution. They survived in the division by four points. In the subsequent season he was outperformed by compatriot Benito Carbone, with whom his career had dovetailed throughout, Carbone being the one to replace him at Napoli a few years previous.
They both arrived during a golden era for Italian football in England, with television coverage growing markedly, along with numerous popular imports such as Zola, Di Matteo and Ravanelli amongst others. This conveniently came at the time the ‘playmaker’ role in midfield was being abandoned in Italy with an increased focus on the holder, and flair refugees such as Carbone and Di Canio found their home in Britain who as a football culture were in love with the expansive, cultured foreign attacking midfielder. An aside at this point, another young attacking playmaker of the time, Andrea Pirlo, instead of following the hordes of his peers fleeing the country, decided to stay and reinvent himself as a ball-playing defensive midfielder, becoming the best in the world at it, and “the most important player of his generation”.
The careers of Carbone and Di Canio, such similar players, provide a fascinating dichotomy in their trajectory. Bearing unquestioned talent, both of them cut nomadic figures, unable to find a home, struggling to adapt to adult life thanks to their upbringing. Di Canio, the more gifted player, raised under the shadow of the Curva Nord could never escape the controversy, which followed him wherever he went. Carbone on the other hand was sent north from his home in Reggio Calabria, the very southern point of Italy, at the age of fourteen to try and carve out a football career at Torino, the nation’s finest youth system. He eventually departed Turin at the same time Di Canio, three years his elder, joined The Old Lady across the city. The day he arrived in northern Italy, the introverted Carbone was forever cast an immigrant, an outsider, something which characterised him throughout his career. He achieved his dream by signing for boyhood club Inter in 1995, unfortunately like the rest of his career before it, his stay didn’t last long, not finding a home within Roy Hodgson’s wing back system.
After appearing for eight clubs by the age of 25, Carbone was designated a mercenary. This was especially true in England where he starred for six seasons during the prime of his career. Unlike Italy where lesser sides were loathe to play diminutive playmakers, rather focusing on defensive solidity, the Premier League was something of a safe haven for Carbone. At this time the lure of the flair player, to be part of the big time, was at its peak. Beni, not the world’s best attacking midfielder, but a good one his own right, provided an opportunity for these lesser teams to have their Zola, their big time.
He was demanded by struggling sides desperate for a spark, willing to overspend. Never a good sign. During his stint in England he graced Sheffield Wednesday, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Derby County and Di Canio’s opponent on Saturday, Bradford City. Every one of these stints ended in a contract dispute after the club fell into financial troubles. The player is branded the mercenary, the clubs the victims. In reality all of them wanted their big time, and paid more than they could afford to get it. They brought it on themselves. Carbone became an icon of failure, relegation, and bankruptcy. Yet no one ever questioned the moral hazard of the clubs who recruited him, all of whom paid more than they could afford for the privilege.
In the same way the ability of Carbone as a footballer has been forgotten, leaving him to resemble everything that was wrong with the financially bloated turn-of-the-century Premier League, Di Canio’s prowess has also been overshadowed by everything else about him. His politics, his personality, and the controversy he brought with him everywhere he went. What is overlooked is his greatness on the pitch. Never an all-star, he suffered behind a golden era of Italian forwards, Del Piero and Baggio seemed to leave him in the shadows at every turn. For three seasons he managed to build a life for himself at West Ham, where he is still idolised to this day, before it all fell apart and he was dropped, and then released. He eventually made his way back to Italy and his beloved S.S. Lazio, going through dramatic financial problems at the time. Unfortunately the negative impact following him like a shadow resurfaced in Rome with a series of public outbursts and controversies leading to his final demise. Unsurprisingly his early life as an Ultra began to influence his actions, and in the end Claudio Lotito, the club’s chairman was forced to let Di Canio go, primarily down to his active relationship with the controversial S.S. Ultras, an image the club was trying to leave behind.
In many ways it isn’t a surprise these two characters remained in football, it is all they know. Carbone, who finally found a home of sorts in the Italian lower leagues with Pavia, took the manager’s position after his retirement, saving them from relegation, before rapidly jumping ship to Serie B Varese. His position was terminated earlier this month. Carbone again is without a home.
As someone revered in England more than anywhere else, save the Curva Nord in Rome, it isn’t surprising this is where Di Canio came to make his move. Swindon Town offered him the opportunity which he was more than grateful to take. A former host to then-novice managers Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles, Dennis Wise and Steve McMahon, Swindon have previous in risky managerial appointments and this one is no different. Di Canio beat Dietmar Hamann for the job who subsequently took over at Stockport County and who also would appear a safer appointment. But in the same way Bradford signed Carbone over other safer options all those years ago, Swindon too wanted the glamour. After managers Danny Wilson and Paul Hart led them to relegation from League One, one struggles to blame them for the decision.
At the same time, there will be little sympathy if and when it all falls apart. Carbone was a nomad because he never knew a home. Di Canio was a nomad because he was a liability. It can be said that whilst the boy shipped from his home as a child never left Carbone, the boy in the Curva Nord never left Di Canio. His ability provided him with the opportunities of greatness and immortality which on the whole eluded him in his playing career, something which the well-travelled Carbone never had the opportunity.
They have both decided to fill the hole left by their playing career by forging careers in management, and both got off to successful starts. Yet the nomadic tendencies within Benito Carbone culminated in his downfall with Varese. It remains to be seen whether the same will be said about Paolo Di Canio or whether he can finally find a home and another chance at greatness.
