Who told me about AC Milan?

"Red is the color of the devil, while black exudes terror!"

-Hubert kipling, one of the founders of Milan

The birth of Milan (1)

The northwest corner of Italy is full of picturesque villages, seaside resorts and industrial cities, and the most economically developed "Milan-Turin-Genoa" triangle in Italy is located here, and Milan is undoubtedly the most dazzling pearl. It is Italy's economy and fashion. Milan is a small town in the foothills of Alpes. Because of its superior geographical position and unparalleled creativity of the people, Milan gradually annexed the surrounding satellite villages in the process of development and became the fashion capital of today's world.

However, Milan is really the most famous in the world, not because of fashion, but because it is the "football capital of the world". Here is the world's greatest city derby-Milan Derby.

The story we are going to tell today is about AC Milan, the pride of Milan, which is famous in world football and known as the "Dream Team" and the "Devil's Corps".

AC Milan was founded on December 18th, 1899, and its base camp is located in the mixed residence of British and Italian businessmen. Its team name was "AC Milan", and its full name was called "Milan Cricket and Football Association" in the early days, referred to as "AC Milan" for short. With the continuous extension of football charm, it soon became the most popular project in the club and the local area. By 195, The club officially changed its name to Milan Football Club. Football officially became the biggest event of Milan Club and the favorite of people in Milan.

In p>196 and 197, AC Milan won the Italian national championship for two years in succession. It is worth mentioning that, AC Milan is also the second team in Italian history to win the national championship (second only to Genoa).

In p>198, some players in AC Milan announced that they would leave the team and set up the current Inter Milan team, which is also in the general sense, because they were dissatisfied with some policies of the team's management. This has continued to this day and has become the world's football world-famous. The greatest and most dazzling city derby-"Milan Derby" In 1939, AC Milan officially changed its team name to Milan Associazione Calcio., indicating that football is the most important project of the club. The base camp of AC Milan is located in the "Sansiro" of Milan, Italy, in the west of Milan, because the main stadium of AC Milan is built in the San Siro District. Therefore, the stadium has been called "Stadio San Siro" by AC Milan fans, and the property right belongs to the Milan municipal government.

It was this small Milan football club that has long been a myth and legend that is beyond the reach of today's world football.

This is exactly what happened:

The Rossoneri came into being as the times require,

The wave of sand and the determination of football.

Dark Age (2)

The long winter finally melted. After the Second World War, everything was in full swing, and the Italian Football League resumed. In 1947, in order to improve the quality of the league, the Football Association reopened its foreign aid policy, and Milan finally ushered in the first golden age-the Swedish "Troika" era.

January 22, 1949 is one of the most important days for Milan fans. Gunnar Nodal, the third of the three Swedish Nodal brothers who won the championship in the London Olympic Games in 1948, officially joined Milan. Born on October 19, 1921, this gentleman is 1.74 meters tall and weighs 92 kilograms. His strong physique makes the defender feel frightened and unstoppable. Although only participated in the second half of the 1948-49 season, it proved itself. For example, Tiger went down the mountain, made 15 appearances and scored 16 goals, and Milan finally won the third place in the league.

Sweden's Three Masters (3)

The drama has just begun, and then Milan introduced Gunnar Glenn and Nelson Ryder holman. This is the most famous "GRE-NO-LI" combination in football history, which has played the most splendid chapter in Milan's history since then. In the brand-new 1949-5 season, Milan scored 57 points in 38 games, 27 wins, 3 draws, 8 losses, and finished second after Juventus by 5 points. Nodal made 37 appearances and scored 35 goals, a record that nobody cares about so far. However, this is far from Milan's ultimate goal, it will only be the driving force for progress.

The great 195-51 season finally came. Nodal was awesome, making 37 appearances and scoring 34 goals, especially in the four derbies between Juventus and Milan. In the end, Milan won 38 games, 26 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses, scored 17 goals, lost 39 goals and accumulated 6 points, and finally won the first league title in the past half century (Milan's fourth league title). Then he won the European Latin Cup (every summer from 1949 to 1957, the league champions of Spain, Portugal, France and Italy participated) with a total victory. In the following three seasons, Milan's Swedish Troika fought in the south and the north, crusaded in the east and conquered the west, and the Megatron Apennine Peninsula, although they didn't win the championship, one second and two third places were enough to mark the history books.

saying goodbye (4)

On things in the world that have been divided for a long time, they will be divided for a long time, and all good things must come to an end. Glen moved to Florence in July 1953 and died in 1991. In order to make up for Glen's departure, Milan brought in the famous striker Juan Alberto Schiaffino from Uruguayan Penarol for 72, pounds, and the transfer fee set a world record at that time. Born on July 28th, 1925, this gentleman is a left-winger. He is the world champion of Uruguay in 195 and the fourth largest hero in the world in 1954. After he came to Milan, he formed a new striker combination with two other Swedes and won the fifth league title for Milan in 1954-55. Throughout the season, Milan scored 81 goals, lost 35 goals and scored 48 points in 34 games, Schiaffino scored 15 goals in 27 appearances and Nodal scored 27 goals in 33 games. < P > The 1955-56 season was undoubtedly another unforgettable season, and it was the last season for Nodal, the greatest Swedish star of all time, to play in Milan. He scored 23 goals for Milan, helped Milan win the runner-up in the league, and reached the semi-finals in the first European Champions Cup. He lost to Real Madrid in the semi-final, but he will win the championship again (the second Latin Cup champion) in the subsequent Latin Cup.

after the end of the season, Nodal moved to Rome. During his eight years in Milan (January 22, 1949-July 1956), he participated in 257 first-division matches and scored 21 goals. So far, he is the player who scored the most goals in Milan's history, and created a mythical record-the best in the five seasons of 195, 51, 53, 54 and 55. On September 16, 1995, the man who was all-powerful in that year died of a heart attack, and there was another god of war in heaven.

Stand alone (5)

Sweden's "Troika" only left Lederholm, but as the captain, he was the core of the team. Under his leadership, in 1956-57, Milan won the championship podium again with 21 wins, 6 draws, 7 losses and 48 points (Milan's sixth league champion), and was challenged by new forces such as Florence and Lazio in the league. Due to the decline of Milan's overall strength, in the following 1957-58 season, Milan plummeted and ranked ninth. In Europe, the opponent in the semi-final was Manchester United, which suffered an air crash in Munich. After entering the final, it met Real Madrid again. The whole game was ups and downs, and it was 2-2 in 9 minutes. Heng Tuo scored a goal in the 17th minute of extra time and lost the Champions League.

After the World Cup in p>1958, Milan killed again, and hired Jose Altafini, the main center of world champion Brazil from Palmeiras. This gentleman was born on July 24th, 1938. Milan re-established the "New Troika". In 1958-59, in 34 battles, 2 wins, 12 draws and 2 losses, 84 goals were scored, 32 goals were lost and 52 points were accumulated to regain the league title (Milan's seventh league title). Altafini scored 28 goals in 32 appearances. In the following two seasons, Milan won the third place and the second place respectively.

The time for parting finally came. In the summer of 196, Uruguayan striker Schiaffino moved to Rome. Swedish hero Lederholm announced his retirement in 1961 with Milan for 12 years. * * * participated in 359 league games, scored 81 goals, won 4 league titles and 2 Latin Cup titles. In 1976, the former captain returned to Milan again and won the league title three years later, which is another story. His retirement marks the end of Sweden's "Troika" era, and Milan will welcome another era.

This is exactly what it is:

A long night's race in the cold winter is a surprise of spring thunder.

Sweden's three heroes are heroic, and the golden Milan is at the peak.

How can the years pass by, but the flowers bloom and fall?

The three carriages have gone one after another, and the South American shooters have continued to flourish.

They have emerged. (6)

The old look of the stadium has changed.

At the end of the Swedish Troika era, former heroes left one after another, especially Schiaffino and captain Lederholm. On the one hand, they were too old to help Milan further. More importantly, they have chosen a successor, so they can go away with confidence. They have not misjudged the wrong person, and it has been proved that this successor has not failed the expectations of his predecessors. He is a legendary figure in Italian football history-giani Rivera.

Rivera was born in Alessandro on August 26th, 1943. He loved football since childhood. At the age of thirteen, he was discovered by coach Pedroni and joined the second team of Alessandro Football Club. The team specially assigned coaches for him and taught him one stroke at a time. At the age of 15, he participated in eight youth leagues, and was soon discovered by Milan with deep pockets at that time (in fact, Milan has always had deep pockets). He was poached with a heavy sum of $182,. For his future, the original club had to reluctantly give up what one favours.

At that time, Rivera was thin, short, quiet as a rabbit off the court, like a tiger on the court, with beautiful technical movements, steady control of the ball, accurate passing, dribbling people like nobody's business, wonderful shooting footwork in the restricted area and excellent header skills. The little boy won the joy of Milan with his extraordinary skills, clever personality and sensitive awareness of football. It was his arrival that Milan ushered in another spring.

budding (7)

In the first season of 196-61, it was unfavorable, and it came second after Juventus. In 1961-62, under the leadership of Altafini, Milan won the championship (Milan's eighth league title) with 52 points and 3 points over Juventus. Rivera scored 2 goals and ranked first among the top scorers. In the same year, he was selected for the Italian national team and did well.

The 1962-63 season was an important year in Milan's history. The team devoted all its energy to the European arena, and finally ranked third in the league, but everything pays off, and Milan once again entered the Champions League final. On May 22nd, 1963, at Wembley Stadium in London, the opponent was Portuguese Benfica team led by Eusébio, the Panther. Milan had a "South American Troika" composed of Peruvian man-marking defender Victor Benitez, Brazilian midfielder Dino Sonny and scoring machine Altafini on the front line, but Eusébio took the ball past trapattoni in the 18th minute of the first half and took the lead in breaking the deadlock. In the second half, it was Rivera's turn to perform. In the 58th and 66th minutes, two wonderful passes helped Altafini score twice. Milan finally turned the tables and won the first European football championship.

At the same time, Milan qualified for the Intercontinental Cup against Brazil's Santos team led by Pele. Milan won 4-2 at home, but led 2- away, but the opponent pulled 4 goals in a row (Milan Champions Cup repeated the same mistakes several years later). Two days later, in the play-off, Milan lost -1 and hated the Intercontinental Cup (predecessor of the Toyota Cup, held at home and away).

Because of Rivera's outstanding performance, he was ranked second in the selection of the best players in Europe. The first was the famous former Soviet goalkeeper Yasin, who was less than 2 years old at that time. Can Ronaldo and Zidane compare with him in today's football? Maybe Kaka can have a fight.

Extremely brilliant (8)

Perhaps it was too early to become famous, or it was loaded with too many expectations. In the following seasons, Rivera performed in general. The team's performance declined again and again. In 1963-64, it won the third place and the second place the following year, but it fell to the seventh in 1965-66, and in 1966-67, although it won the FA Cup (Milan's first FA Cup), it was only ranked eighth in the league, and its captain, Cesari Maldini, retired to the field all his life. Rivera's performance in the 1966 World Cup was mediocre and was criticized.

At this critical moment, the team owner recalled the coach Nereo Rocco who led Milan to the first Champions League. In the 1967-68 season, Milan regained its courage. Under the guidance of Rocco, in the league, 3 games, 18 wins, 1 draws, 2 losses, 53 goals, 24 goals and 46 points were scored to regain the championship (Milan's ninth league title), leading the second place by 9 points. In Europe, it was also a triumph, and good news spread frequently. In 1968, Rotterdam, the Netherlands beat Hamburg 2- to win the European Cup Winners' Cup (Milan's first Cup Winners' Cup). This year, another legend came into the world. He was the Prince of Milan-Paolo Maldini.

In the following 1968-69 season, he won the runner-up in the league, made it through the Champions League and reached the final again, against Ajax, the upstart European team led by a generation of Tianjiao cruyff. On May 28th, 1969, at the Bernabeu Stadium in Spain, Milan won the Champions League (Milan's second Champions League) with a big score of 4-1. Among them, Plati scored a hat trick in the 1th, 39th and 75th minutes, and Somani added the icing on the cake in the 66th minute. A few years later, Milan once again played Barcelona, the European dream team led by cruyff, 4- in the Champions League. Perhaps Milan is cruyff's eternal nightmare, but it is his three favorite students who created another glory of Milan, which is another story. At the end of the same year, Milan beat the Universidad Plata led by bilardo and Veron (the father of Chelsea Veron) with a total score of 4-2, and won the Intercontinental Cup for the first time.

It was these outstanding performances that made Rivera the European Footballer of the Year in 1969, and then in the World Cup in 197, the semi-final against West Germany drew 3-3. At the crucial moment, Rivera went into battle and scored a key goal, sending West Germany away. <