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Vince Lombardi: Football Coach

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Vince Lombardi Vince Lombardi was mainly known as a football coach for the Green Bay Packers. Many people considered him one of the greatest football coaches in history considering the several Championships he took his team to. Vince Lombardi, defined his success in winning the Super Bowl and not just seeing his players as players, but as family. Vince Lombardi was born on June 11,1913 to Matilda Izzo and Enrico Lombardi in Brooklyn, New York. (Biography.com Paragraph 2) From birth, he was pushed towards the Catholic church. When Vince was fifteen, he enrolled at the Cathedral College of Immaculate Conception to study to become a priest. (Biography.com Paragraph 2) The more he was pushed toward Catholicism, the less he became interested.

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