Goalkeeping Museum

Walter Zenga

• Name: Walter Zenga
• DOB: 20/04/1960
• Height: 6ft 2in (1.88m)
• Clubs:
  • Salernitana (1978-79)
  • Savona (1979-80)
  • Sambenedetesse (1980-82)
  • Internazionale (1982-94)
  • Sampdoria (1994-96)
  • Padova (1996-97)
  • New England Revolution (1997-99)
• Years Active: 1978-1999
• Club Appearances: 530
• International Appearances: (Italy) 58

Walter Zenga, for a number of years at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s was widely regarded as the best goalkeeper in the world, in the middle part of a successful period of more than a decade that he spent at Inter Milan.

During this time, Zenga would win a Scudetto in 1988-89 and 2 UEFA Cups in 1991 and 1994, making 328 appearances in the process for the Italian greats.

Zenga was IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper for three years running: 1989, 1990 and 1991 as well as being awarded UEFA Goalkeeper of the year in 1990.