Pietro Vincenzo "Enzo" Calzaghe MBE (1 January 1949 – 17 September 2018)[1] was an Italian-born Welsh boxing trainer.
Calzaghe was born in Bancali, a hamlet of Sassari, in the Italian island of Sardinia to parents Giuseppe and Victoria.
[2] The family returned to Italy when 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.
He 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.
[3] 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.
[3] In Cardiff Calzaghe found work at a Wimpy where he fell in love with a waitress, Jackie, who would become his wife just four weeks later.
[3] Calzaghe was, at the time, working variously as a bus conductor and window salesman whilst also playing in bands with his brother.