Timeline Sunday 8 May 1960

Events on Sunday 8 May 1960 1

• 1960 Franco Baresi born in Travagliato Franchino Baresi is born on 8 May 1960 in Travagliato, a small town in the province of Brescia in northern Italy, the youngest of five siblings in a farming family. His mother dies when Franco is 11; his father dies three years later, leaving both Franco and his older brother Giuseppe orphaned at 14. The brothers are taken in by relatives and continue playing football, which becomes the structure around which their difficult adolescence is organised.