Pietro Vincenzo "Enzo" Calzaghe was an Italian-born Welsh boxing trainer.
19 Facts About Enzo Calzaghe
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Enzo Calzaghe was the father of Joe Calzaghe and the head trainer for Team Calzaghe at the Newbridge boxing club.
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Enzo Calzaghe was born and raised in Bancali, a hamlet of Sassari, in the Italian island of Sardinia to parents Giuseppe and Victoria.
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Enzo Calzaghe moved at the age of two, with his family, to Bedfordshire.
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Enzo Calzaghe's father taught him to box to protect himself from school bullies.
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The family returned to Italy when Enzo Calzaghe was 13 and whilst there he tried to make a career as a footballer - at one point he played on the same team as Gianfranco Zola.
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Enzo Calzaghe has two daughters named Sonia and Melissa and one son called Joe.
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Enzo Calzaghe played the bass guitar for his uncle's band 'Survival'.
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Enzo Calzaghe was conscripted into the Italian Air Force at the age of 19 and immediately found a place in their Milan football team, where he spent much of the next two years.
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Enzo Calzaghe hitch-hiked from one city to the next for the next couple of years, often sleeping rough in city squares and phone-boxes.
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Enzo Calzaghe's aunt had sold the business to return to Italy but convinced the new owner to take him on as an employee.
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Enzo Calzaghe worked at the restaurant during the day and slept there at night, in order to save up enough money to go back home to Sardinia.
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Enzo Calzaghe saved the cash but, when he got to Southampton station, the tannoy announced a train to Cardiff was due.
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In Cardiff Enzo Calzaghe found work at a Wimpy where he fell in love with a waitress, Jackie, who would become his wife just four weeks later.
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Enzo Calzaghe was, at the time, working variously as a bus conductor and window salesman whilst playing in bands with his brother.
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Whilst in Cardiff, Enzo Calzaghe got involved in the local boxing gym and met Paul Williams, who was trainer of the Newbridge boxing club.
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Williams invited Enzo Calzaghe to bring Enzo Calzaghe's son Joe along as he was being bullied at school.
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Joe became a regular at the gym and Enzo Calzaghe became Paul's assistant trainer.
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Enzo Calzaghe effectively retired from coaching in 2008, though his gym continued.