Basic Information
Club Name: AC Milan (Associazione Calcio Milano)
English Name: Milan
Full Name: Associazione Calcio Milan s.p.a
Establishment: December 16th, 1899
Location Country: Italy
City: Milan
President: Silvio Berlusconi
Manager: Carlo Ancelotti
Official website:
Tel:0039-02-62281
Fax:0039-02-6598876
Address: Via Turati 3, 20121 Milan, Italy
Stadium name: San Siro Stadium
Built: September 19, 1926
Renovated: 1939, 1956, 1990
Address: Via Piccolomini 5 20151 Milan
Tel: (02) 45.41.23.
Size of stadium: 105x 68 meters
Capacity: 85,700
VIP places: 5,200
Press gallery: 200
Lighting: 3,600
Cross turnstiles: 51
A brief history of the great AC Milan team in all its glory
The birth of a great team:
On December 16, 1899, a group of fans gathered in a room of the hotel in Du Nord founded a sports club-Milan Football and Cricket Club. After a hundred years, the club has grown into one of the greatest teams in the world, AC Milan, known as the "European Dream Team" and the "Devil's Army".
Early AC Milan team:
Early AC Milan's full name was become "Milan Cricket and Football Association" (Milan Cricket---Football Association), referred to as "AC Milan. ". As the appeal of soccer continued to grow, it soon became the club's and the region's most popular sport. In 1905, the club was officially renamed "Milan Football Club". In 1906 and 1907, AC Milan won the Italian National Championship for two consecutive years, and it is worth mentioning that AC Milan was the second team to win the Italian National Championship (the second team to win the Italian National Championship) in history. AC Milan is also the second team in the history of Italy to win the National Championship (after Genoa).
In 1908, AC Milan team (Milan) in some players because of dissatisfaction with the team's management of some policies, announced that they left the team, the establishment of the current Inter Milan team, which is commonly referred to as "Inter. Dazzling city derby ------ "Milan Derby" In 1939, AC Milan officially changed the name of the team to Italian --- Milan Associazione Calcio., indicating that soccer is the club's main project. AC Milan's home base is located in the "San Siro" district of Milan, Italy. "AC Milan's home base is located in Milan's "Sansiro" district, in the western part of the city. Since AC Milan's main stadium was built in the Sansiro district, the stadium is known to AC Milan fans as Stadio San Siro, owned by the Municipality of Milan. The stadium is owned by the city of Milan.
After the end of World War II, the Italian First Division resumed, and in 1947, in order to improve the quality of the league, the FA reopened the 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, the 1948 London Olympics swept all the powers to win the championship of Sweden Nordahl three brothers in the old three - Gunnar Nordahl. Nordahl officially joined Milan, this gentleman was born on October 19, 1921, 1 meters 74 tall, weighing 92 kilograms, strong physique makes the defenders scared and difficult to stop. Although only participated in the second half of the 1948-49 season, proved himself, like a tiger downhill, 15 appearances, scored 16 goals, Milan eventually won the third league.
The fun had just begun when Milan brought in Gunnar Glenn, Nelson B. The good news was that Milan brought in Gunnar Glenn and Nelson Ledholman. This was the most famous "Gre-No-Li" combination in the history of soccer, and from then on it was one of the most beautiful chapters in Milan's history. In the brand-new 1949-50 season, Milan won 27, drew 3, and lost 8 of 38 matches in the league to accumulate 57 points, and finished second after Juventus with a difference of 5 points. Nodal made 37 appearances and scored 35 goals, a record that remains unchallenged to this day. Yet far from being Milan's ultimate goal, it will only be the impetus to move forward.
The great 1950-51 season finally arrived, and Nodal made 37 appearances, scoring 34 goals, especially against Juventus and Milan Derby 4 games, all of which were victorious. In the end, Milan won 26, drew 8, lost 4, scored 107 goals and conceded 39 goals in 38 matches to accumulate 60 points, and finally won the first league title in nearly half a century (Milan's fourth league title). Milan then won the European Latin Cup (played every summer from 1949 to 1957 by the champions of the four Latin-speaking countries - Spain, Portugal, France and Italy) with a clean sweep. In the three seasons that followed, Milan's Swedish troika went to war in the north, east and west, shaking up the Apennine Peninsula, not winning the title, but a second and two thirds were enough to go down in history.
Glenn moved to Fiorentina in July 1953 and died in 1991 after a long illness. To fill the void left by Glenn, Milan brought in the famous striker Juan Alberto Gonzalez from Uruguay's Penarol for 72,000 pounds. Alberto Schiafino. The transfer fee was a world record. Born on July 28, 1925, he played as a left winger, and was a key contributor to Uruguay's 1950 World Championship and 1954 World Fourth Place finish. He came to Milan and formed a new front line with two other Swedes, winning Milan's fifth league title in the 1954-55 season. Milan scored 81 goals and conceded 35 for 48 points in 34 wins, 10 draws and five losses throughout the season, with Schiaffino scoring 15 goals in 27 appearances and Nordahl scoring 27 goals in 33 games.
The 1955-56 season was undoubtedly another memorable one, and was the last for Nordahl, the greatest Swedish player of all time, who played for Milan. He scored 23 goals for Milan, helping them finish second in the league, and reached the quarterfinals of the inaugural European Champions Cup, losing in the semifinals to a then-prominent Real Madrid team, but going on to win the Latin Cup (the 2nd Latin Cup).
After the season Nodal moved to Roma, and during his 8 years at Milan (January 22, 1949-July 1956) he played 257 first division matches, scoring 210 goals, by far the most in Milan's history, and setting a fabulous record- -The league's top scorer in five seasons - 1950, 51, 53, 54, 55. On September 16, 1995 the great and powerful figure of his day passed away due to a heart attack, and since then there has been one more god of war in heaven.
Swedish "Troika" only left Ledholm, but as the captain of the team, he is the core, under his leadership, the 1956-57 season, Milan's 34 wins, 6 draws and 7 defeats with 48 points again on the podium (Milan's sixth league title), the league was defeated by Fiorentina in the league. At the time, Milan was challenged by new forces in the league such as Fiorentina and Lazio, and Milan still got through. Due to the decline of Milan's overall strength, in the following 1957-58 season, Milan fell to 9th place, and in the European competition, the semi-final opponent was Manchester United, who suffered from the Munich air disaster, and then met Real Madrid in the final, the whole game had ups and downs, and the 90-minute battle was tied 2-2, and in the 107th minute of extra time, Hunto scored a goal, and lost the Champions League. The Cup was lost.
After the end of the 1958 World Cup, Milan made another move, poaching the world champion Brazil's star center forward Jose Altafini from Palmeiras. The man was born on July 24, 1938, in Altafini. Milan reorganized the "New Troika" and won the league title (Milan's 7th league title) in 1958-59 with 20 wins, 12 draws, and 2 losses in 34 matches, scoring 84 goals and conceding 32 points for 52 points, with 28 goals in 32 appearances by Altafini. In the following two seasons, Milan finished 3rd and runner-up.
The time for parting came at last, with Uruguayan shot-stopper Schiafino moving to Roma in the summer of 1960. Swedish hero Ledholm announced his retirement in 1961 after 12 years with Milan, ****playing in 359 league matches, scoring 81 goals, winning 4 league titles and 2 Latin Cups. 1976 saw the former captain return to Milan again, winning the league title again 3 years later, as an afterthought. His retirement marks the end of the Swedish "Troika" era, and Milan will welcome another era.
Step into the brilliant AC Milan team
Gianni Rivera was born on August 26, 1943 in Alessandroia, from a young age, like soccer, at the age of 13 by the Pedroni coach found, joined the Alessandroia Football Club B team, the team for him to configure a special coach, a move to teach him. 15 years old participated in eight youth league, soon by the time of the rich and powerful Milan (in fact, Milan). Milan (in fact, Milan has always been rich) found, for $182,000 in heavy money to scoop up, for his future, the original club had to bear the pain.
Then Rivera is thin, not tall, off the field as quiet as a rabbit, on the field as fierce as a tiger, technical action is very beautiful, control the ball steady, pass the ball quasi-precise, disk with people like into no one else's territory, the penalty box shooting footwork marvelous, header kung fu is excellent. The young boy with extraordinary skills, good character and soccer sensitive awareness of Milan's joy, and it is his arrival, Milan ushered in another spring.
In the 1960-61 season, Milan finished second to Juventus after an unfavorable start to the season, but in the 1961-62 season, under the leadership of Artafini, Milan won the championship (Milan's eighth league title) with 52 points, three points ahead of Juventus. Rivera topped the scoring charts with 20 goals and was selected for the Italian national team in the same year and had a solid season.
The 1962-63 season was an important year in Milan's history, as the team focused entirely on Europe, finishing 3rd in the league but making it to the final of the Champions League, which was played at Wembley Stadium in London on May 22nd, 1963 against the Panthers. "Eusebio led the Portuguese team Benfica. Milan's team featured the Peruvian staring defender Victor Benitez, the Brazilian midfielder, and the Brazilian midfielder. Benitez, Brazilian midfielder Dino Sanni, and the striker's goal-scoring team. Sunny and the front line scoring machine Artafini composed of the "South American Troika", but Eusebio first broke the deadlock in the 18th minute of the first half by dribbling past Trapattoni. In the second half, it was Rivera's turn to perform, with two excellent passes in the 58th and 66th minutes to help Artafini score twice, and Milan finally turned back the clock to win their first ever European soccer title (Milan's first Champions League).
At the same time, Milan qualified for the Intercontinental Cup against Brazil's Santos, led by Pele. Milan won 4-2 at home, but the away team was up 2-0, but the opponents scored 4 goals in a row (Milan's Champions Cup repeat a few years later), and two days later in the play-offs, Milan lost 0-1 to the Intercontinental Cup (the predecessor of the Toyota Cup, which was held in home and away matches).
Because of Rivera's outstanding performance, that year, Europe's best players in the selection of the second, the first is the famous Soviet Union goalkeeper Octopus Yashin, and Rivera was less than 20 years old, ask the world of football today, Ronaldo, Zidane can be compared to him? Maybe Kaka can have a fight.
Perhaps it was too early to be famous, perhaps it was carrying too many expectations, and then in the following seasons, Rivera's performance was mediocre. The team's performance declined again and again, finishing third in 1963-64 and second the following year, but dropping to 7th in 1965-66, and finishing 8th in the league in 1966-67 despite winning the FA Cup (Milan's 1st FA Cup), with captain Cesare Maldini's life in the hands of the team's captain. Villa's 1966 World Cup performance was mediocre, and the team was criticized for its lack of success.
At this critical moment, the owner recalled Nerio Rocco, the coach who had led Milan to its first Cup victory. In the 1967-68 season, Milan recovered and under Rocco's guidance, the team won 18, drew 10, lost 2, scored 53 goals and conceded 24 in 30 matches to regain the title (Milan's 9th league title) with 46 points, 9 points ahead of the 2nd place. And the European field is also high, good news, in 1968 Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2-0 defeated the German team Hamburg won the European Cup Winners Cup laurels (Milan's first Cup Winners Cup). That year another legend came to life, the Prince of Milan, Paolo Maldini. The year another legend came to life, the Prince of Milan, Paolo Maldini.
In the following season of 1968-69, Milan finished second in the league, and the Champions League went all the way to the finals, where they faced Ajax, the newest team in Europe led by Cruyff, and on May 28, 1969, Milan won the Champions League (Milan's second Champions League), defeating their rivals in a 4-1 victory at the Bernabeu Stadium in Spain. 2nd Cup), with Platty scoring a hat-trick in the 10th, 39th and 75th minutes, and Somani adding the icing on the cake in the 66th minute. Some years later, Milan in the Champions Cup again 4-0 tease Cruyff led the European dream team - Barcelona, perhaps Milan is Cruyff's eternal nightmare, but it is his 3 favorite students created another Milan's glory, which is an afterthought. At the end of the same year, Milan won the Intercontinental Cup (Milan's 1st Intercontinental Cup) for the first time by defeating the Argentine Plata University team led by Bilardo and Perón (Chelsea's Perón's father) by a total score of 4-2.
It was these excellent performances that led Rivera to be named European Footballer of the Year in 1969, followed by the 1970 World Cup, where he faced West Germany in the semifinals, with the two sides tied 3-3, and at the crucial moment, Rivera draped himself into the lineup and scored the crucial goal that sent the West Germans packing.
Just as Milan was winning, the FA once again imposed restrictions on foreign players, and the Red and Blacks suffered great losses, finishing 4th in the league in the 1969-70 season, and losing all three seasons from 1970-73, finishing runners-up for the third year in a row, but in the 1971-73 two seasons won the FA Cup twice (Milan's 2nd and 3rd FA Cups), and were crowned European Cup Winners' Cup champions again in 1972-73 (Milan's 2nd Cup Winners' Cup).
In the 1973-74 season, Milan's defense of the European Cup Winners' Cup was lost, and the league slipped to 7th, so Rocco, the famous manager of the generation, resigned from his post and returned to his hometown at the age of 62. Although Rocco left, but he brought endless glory to Milan, and left a large number of excellent coaches to the world soccer world. These include Luigi Radice, who led Torino to the league title in the 1975-76 season. They include: Luigi Radice, who led Torino to the league title in 1975-76, Alberto Bianchi, who led Napoli to the league title in 1989-90 and Alberto Bianchi, who led Napoli to the league title in 1992-96. Bianchi, who led Napoli to the league title in the 1989-90 season, Nevio Scara, who led Parma to the league title in the 1992-96 season. Nevio Scala, who won the European Cup Winners' Cup, League Cup and Supercup, was dismissed for not being able to participate in the Champions League and was replaced by current Milan boss Carlo Ancelotti. And Cesare Maldini, the manager who led Italy's 21-year-old national team to the European championship. Maldini,
The greatest of all is undoubtedly gold medal-winning coach Trapattoni, who has won seven league titles in Italy alone, coached Bayern Munich in Germany, and is now the head coach of the Italian national team, which is aiming to win this year's European Championship.
After Rocco's departure, Heinz B. Schneeringer, a seven-year stalwart of the team's German defense, announced his retirement. With Rocco's departure, German defenseman Heinz Schnellinger announced his retirement, leaving Rivera as Milan's sole supporter of the Red and Black.
The 1974-76 season saw Milan finish 5th and 3rd in the league. In order to stop the decline, former hero Ledholm (one of the Swedish troika and Milan's captain) stepped up to the plate in the 1976-77 season and returned to Milan, and despite falling to 10th in the league, Milan won the F.A. Cup once again (Milan's 4th F.A. Cup). In 1977-78 Milan moved up to 4th place in the league, and in 1978-79, after 3 years of tireless work, they finally regained the league title (Milan's 10th league title), which had been missing for 11 years.) Significantly in this championship team was Milan's future wonder-coach Capello, and another legend was brewed when the ingenious Ledholm pushed the under-18-year-old Baresi into the first division as a free agent.
At the end of the season, Rivera, who turned 36, retired with a vengeance, bidding farewell to the green field, playing for Milan for 20 full seasons, making 510 league appearances, scoring 122 goals, winning one European Footballer of the Year, one Intercontinental Cup, two Champions Cups, two Cup Winners' Cups, three league championships, four FA Cups, and representing his country's national team 65 times, finishing runner-up in the '70 World Cup. When the club's centenary celebrations named the best player of the 20th century, Bastian, another talented scorer, lost by one vote to Rivera, who had this to say, "I'm just a small stage in AC Milan's history, while Rivera is eternal!"
Perhaps it is a free arrangement, perhaps the times make heroes, 20 years ago Rivera from the hands of Ledholm took over the red and black flag, 20 years later he handed over to the Baresi. Yet who knew that what awaited Milan after Rivera's retirement was a vacuum?
The AC Milan team in the doldrums
Time goes back to May 8, 1960, in a small town in the north of Italy called Travagliato, a farmer's family added a little boy. Time traveled as if it were 10 years later. The boy began his soccer career at the local club. On the soccer field his character is a little shy and even timid, but skillful, broad vision. 14 years old after a friend recommended to Milan to participate in two consecutive tests, the first time to play defender, the second as a free agent, including Trapattoni, Vitali, Rivera and other unanimously appreciated, and from then on with the red and black army united in a bond. At the time of the manager Riedholm immediately recognized him as a horse of a thousand miles, less than 18 years of age, was entrusted with the important task, invited away the defense general Tulone to make way for him, as a free man on April 23, 1978 began his debut performance in Serie A, 2-1 victory over Verona, he is the world's greatest steel defender, the embodiment of integrity, a symbol of loyalty - Franco Breschi, who is the world's greatest steel defender, the embodiment of loyalty. He is the world's greatest steel defender, the embodiment of integrity and the symbol of loyalty - Franco Baresi.
However, as Rivera retired in his old age, the federation once again restricted foreign players, and the 1979 team finished third, but was forced by the federation to relegate the team to the second division after a scandal broke out later in the season about Milan's owner being involved in football betting fraud, the players' suspected gambling, and a match-fixing scandal at Lazio.
After the relegation, most of the players of the team had to climb another branch, but Baresi stayed, because he insisted on a life motto - a good man does not work for two masters. 1980-81 season, Milan won the championship of the second league, back to the first division, but due to the strength of the weak, 1981-82 season only ranked 14th, but the team was only able to win the championship. In the 1981-82 season, Milan finished 14th and fell into the second division again. This time, however, Baresi chose to be loyal once again, and he said a very simple but touching sentence: "I am a member of AC Milan, and I am determined to stay!" After a season of hard work, Milan once again returned to the first division as champions of the second division, and from then on Milan began to embark on the path of revitalization, completely free from the unbearable nightmare.
His character and skills y impressed the Italian national team manager Bealzot, and eventually Italy won the 3rd World Cup, the 1982 World Cup in Spain, Italy won the championship, there are two things that are jaw-dropping, the first is that Rossi has just finished two years of sitting on the ball banned from being selected for the national team, scoring 6 goals to get the best scorer and the best player of the title; the other is that the second league The other was the selection of Baresi, a League Two player, to sit at the back, and Italy became the second team after Brazil to win three world championships.
The Rising AC Milan Team
In May 1980 the Italian Football Federation once again opened up its foreign aid policy, limiting the purchase of foreign aid to two per team. Milan returned to the first division and purchased foreign aid year after year, but the results were only in the middle of the table, even in 1985, the "golden boy" Rossi and the "Prince of Milan" Maldini to join, the team still did not get better, completely sick, must be drastically reformed.
February 1986 was a turning point for Milan, when the rich man Silvio Berlusconi paid $20 million for a new team. Berlusconi bought a majority stake in the club for 20 million dollars, thus manipulating the power of life and death in Milan. It was his tireless efforts and a series of almost gambling investments and decisions that ushered in the greatest Dutch Three Musketeers era in Milan's history and became the brightest landscape in world soccer.
Berlusconi was born in Milan on September 29, 1936, had a law degree and his father was an official at a local bank. genetically influenced, as a child, he showed shrewd business talent, and as a student he gained extra income by helping his classmates with their exam papers. at the age of 26, he set up a construction company and made a fortune in Milan's real-estate boom of the 60's. In 1978, at the age of 42, he set up Cablevision, the largest cable television company in the world. At 42, he set up a cable TV station and, despite the law requiring privately owned commercial stations to broadcast their programs only locally, he quickly won viewers nationwide by using his wits to buy U.S. TV series cheaply and inserting his own recorded commercials, and by 1986 had captured 80 percent of the national commercial TV market.
Berlusconi is now a rich man with more than 500 companies, including Italy's three largest privately owned TV stations, its largest publishing company, the famous AC Milan soccer team, as well as banking, insurance and other businesses. Forbes magazine estimated in 2000 that he ranked 21st on its list of the world's richest people.
In addition to his great business accomplishments and having been elected twice as Italy's prime minister, he is currently seeking re-election. His name is a symbol of power in Italy, the lion of the construction industry, the emperor of department stores, the czar of journalism and the tycoon of soccer.
As Hubert Kipling, one of Milan's founders, put it, "The man of the hour is the man of the hour. As one of the founders of Milan, Hubert Kipling, said "red is the color of the devil, and black exudes horror", in February 1986, Berlusconi took over AC Milan immediately after the restructuring of the adjustment, the high price of Giovanni Bardi, Giovanni Galli, the jade face of the Hades Ma Ma, and the world's largest football team. Giovanni Galli, the jade-faced Yama Massaro, enough to make the San Siro burning Donadoni and other big-name players, April dismissed the team's famous star and coach Ledholm, another Milan former player Capello began to take charge of the helm. His intentions were clear, aiming to win the title, but the results did not satisfy him.
So he continued to look for a suitable coach, and at this time there is a person who broke into his vision - this is the creation of Milan has a great career Sacchi. Sacchi was unknown at the time, just in the second and third teams wandering, 1985-86 season led Parma to the second in the C Division promoted to the second round of the 1986-87 season in the second round of the FA Cup eliminated Milan, the game Sacchi fully demonstrated his regional defense, aggressive attacking tactical ideas, in the stereotypical defensive Italian football world is like blowing a new wave. In the game, Sacchi fully demonstrated his tactical ideas of zone defense and aggressive attack, which was a refreshing breeze in the stereotypical defensive Italian soccer world. It is this point y impressed the thirst of Berlusconi, 1986-87 season ended, he defied other people's concerns and suspicions, resolutely Milan coach's letter of appointment to the April Fool's Day born, by the shoe businessman changed to become a coach in the hands of the Sacchi. Sacchi in any case could not have imagined that there would be such a miraculous encounter, surprisingly excited tears.
Sakhi's character is obsessive, never give up, people are rigid, arbitrary, very not together, but Berlusconi convinced of his own judgment, decided to put all the bets on Sakhi, not doubt, doubt, and accepted Sakhi's purchasing plan, which includes the Dutch Three Musketeers, is determined to do a great job, the real interpretation of the profound meaning of the red and black.
Just as the Milan club is undergoing a huge change and is recruiting heavily, the Netherlands, the lowest country in the world, is producing some very good players, which seem to be specially prepared for Milan. In fact, the Netherlands is not only famous for its tulips and windmills, soccer has never lacked talent, a generation of pride Cruyff swept the world that year is a clear example.
Luther Gullit, who was born on September 9, 1962, is the first person in the world to have been born in the Netherlands. Gullit, born on September 1, 1962, in the Amsterdam suburb of Allem, his father is Surinamese, his mother is Dutch, and he inherited his father's skin color and his mother's dexterity. 9 years old when he began to play football, taller, playing as a striker, header of the ball, nicknamed "lion's head". 12 years old, Cruyff in the 10th World Cup, the world's biggest show, the world's most famous football player.
When Cruyff was 12 years old, he played in the 10th World Cup, and Gullit, who was sitting next to the TV, was so drunk that he made a wish to play football like Cruyff. 16 years old, he joined the Ajax youth team, and was transferred into the first team in the second year; 18 years old, he was transferred into the Alam team; 20 years old, he was transferred into the Feyenoord team, and he helped his team to get the second place of the league and to get into the quarter-finals of the European Union Cup, which attracted the attention of the world from then on.
In 1983, at the age of 36, Cruyff joined the Feyenoord team, his pure ball skills and soccer masters of the quality, superhuman awareness gave Gullit a great enlightenment, with an idol and role model on the side, Gullit made rapid progress. 1985 again transferred to the Eindhoven team, began to soar. I don't know how many clubs there are in Holland, but Gullit seemed to run through every one of them, a bit like a young martial arts warrior who visits all the schools of the world. And then he moved twice to Milan, Sampdoria, Chelsea, Newcastle United and so on, continuing his own fickleness and adaptability to everything.
Gullit as a free center back, flexible, fast, accurate passing, header shot power, more amazing is his organization ability, vision, wide range of activities, his pace is rare, the ability to carry the ball over the opponent is rarely rivaled. After Cruyff changed to Ajax coach, Basten came out of nowhere, but Gullit led the Eindhoven team in the 1985-87 three seasons against Ajax 5 wins and 1 draw, 3 times the Dutch First Division Championship, individuals won 1 time the best scorer (27 goals), 3 times in a row was named the best player in Holland, and became the successor to Cruyff there is an all-attacking, all-guarding type of Soccer superstar, people also gave him a beautiful name - "black tulip" (tulips in the best).
March 21, 1987, AC Milan to 8.5 million U.S. dollars to buy into the account, began to have a legend.
Everyone has only heard of the white crane, this time, I've grown a new insight, and it's two - the Urechins swan and the black swan.
Just four years after the king of the ball Maradona descended into the world on the same day, October 31, 1964, on the other side of the world in the Netherlands, Urechten, Van Basten came to earth at the age of 4 years old. Basten came to earth at the age of 4, moved to the capital with his family, settled near the famous Ajax stadium. 7 years old, enrolled in the Ajax junior team, at 17 years old became the team's professional players, fortunately got the Cruyff's authenticity, hard work and training to make progress quickly. 1982 April 3 against Nijmegen debut in the game, the replacement is Cruyff (the classic moment can be regarded as a two In 1984, he won the European "Silver Boot" with 18 goals, and in 1987, he won the European "Golden Boot" with 35 goals, so it can be said that the sesame seed blossomed. He was known as the "Swan of Utrecht" because of his elegant style of play, and signed a contract with Milan on the evening of November 19, 1986, for a transfer fee of $12.5 million.
September 30, 1962, Rijkaard was born in a slum area of Amsterdam, he is the same as Gullit's ancestry in Suriname, in the love of soccer father's influence, began to play at the age of 5, at the age of 6 years old, and Gullit both into the "cradle of the stars" of the Amsterdam Brewery-Weather children's football team. 12 years old, the children's football team in Amsterdam Brewery-Weather. He joined the Ajax junior team at 12, the national junior team at 16 and the national team at 18, with Gullit on the bench at the moment.
Rijkaard adhered to the essence of the Dutch all-attacking all-defensive style of play, the defense of the ferocious snatch without mercy, the midfield organization is organized methodically, through the needle as if the flow of water, the attack on the charge of the breakthroughs, especially headers repeatedly built a miraculous success. 1985 Cruyff coaching the Ajax team, very important to the Rijkaard, and let him serve as the captain, hand pointing so that he quickly became the best midfield player in the world football world. The best midfielder in the world.
In 1987, Gullit and Bastian left for the Apennines, and Rijkaard was very isolated in the team, depressed, in poor condition, and played poorly, and he was reprimanded by Cruyff and left the team in a rage, and parted ways with his mentor.
Finally joined AC Milan in 1988, as promised, and from then on began the mesmerizing Three Musketeers era.
World domination of the AC Milan team
Anticipated 1987-88 season finally began, in the first 10 rounds of the game 3 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses only 10 points (then the implementation of the 2-point system), the League Cup was eliminated, this is the gold to build AC Milan? Gullit, Ancelotti, Galli, Donadoni were in poor form and were constantly injured. Berlusconi couldn't sit still any longer, he summoned Sacchi to San Martino Hills, just when the media unanimously thought Sacchi was out, after consulting Baresi and Galliani, Berlusconi announced that Sacchi stayed on. But he also hit out at Maradona and secretly summoned him to a meeting, and the pervasive media broke the news that Napoli had quickly and dramatically increased Maradona's annual salary and renewed his contract for four years.
The gold will always shine, the 1987 World Footballer of the Year in the cross into the 1988 after the great shine, January 3 against the defending champions Napoli in the game as a godsend, in the Kareka received Maradona wonderful pass first record after repeated threatening passes, the organization of the Milan frantic counter-attack, actually four goals, a great victory.
From then on, Milan was out of control, Sacchi's theory of zone defense gradually took root and blossomed in the team, Gullit and Bastian were united, and Baresi led a solid defense. May 1, away from Napoli, Baresi called it "a hell of a duel in the darkness," the match was full of gunpowder. The king of the ball to use all his strength, 2-0 lead, but the braid handsome more heroic, leading Milan to pull back three goals, 3-2 win the most important victory, Milan finally three points ahead of Napoli, nine years after the title again on the throne (Milan's 11th league title).
After a spell at Ajax and a loan spell at Zaragoza, Rijkaard joined Milan at the end of the 1987-88 season, forming the formidable "Dutch Three Musketeers".
In the following 1988-89 season, Milan under the leadership of Sacchi, the Three Musketeers, Baresi and Maldini's back line is impermeable, although the league eventually won the third place. But the Champions Cup went all the way, sweeping Real Madrid in the semifinals with five goals from Gullit, Rijkaard, Bastian, Ancelotti and Donadoni, which was gut-wrenching, and the final that followed was equally chilling. It was May 25, 1989 at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, and some 80,000 Milan fans from Italy traveled with the team in what may have been the largest migration in recent human history. In the heady excitement leading up to the big game, the final opponent was forgotten to be introduced. By the way, the opponent was Bucharest Stars of Romania, winners of the 1986 Champions League. 30 minutes into the match, the Romanians were completely outclassed, with Gullit scoring twice, Bastian adding the icing on the cake, and Rijkaard scoring a goal. 4-0 clean sheet, and the European Champions League (Milan's 3rd Champions League) was won again after 20 years. This was the AC Milan of the time, and this is what the red and black colors really connoted, truly terrifying. Since then, Milan has won the season's European Super Cup (Milan's 1st European Super Cup) Italian Super Cup (Milan's 1st Italian Super Cup)
After a season in the limelight, the 1989-90 season came, and once again the league was a lost cause, and it was a particular shame that Milan was still way ahead near the end of the league, but at the same South American However, Milan lost 0-3 against Napoli, led by the South American trio (Maradona, Carreca and Alemán), and then faced Verona, where the impatient Milan had four players sent off, including Sacchi, Costacurta, Rijkaard and Gullit, and eventually finished as runners-up. The excitement continued in the Champions Cup, where Milan defended their title (Milan's 4th Champions Cup) with a 1-0 win over Benfica of Portugal in May 1990 in Bern, Switzerland, thanks to a goal by Rijkaard. In the subsequent matches of the season Milan again won the European Super Cup (Milan's 2nd European Super Cup), and on December 9, 1990 at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, Milan welcomed South American powerhouse Olimpia of Paraguay, in a match in which the Three Musketeers of Holland were exceptionally eye-catching, with Rijkaard scoring two goals, and Stroppa scoring a brace, to win the title 3-0 (Milan's 3rd Toyota Cup), and Rijkaard Rijkaard drove away with the Toyota.
In the following 1990-91 season, Sampdoria's "Italian Gemini (Mancini, Vialli)" swept away the shadow of the World Cup and won the championship under Eriksson's leadership, with Milan once again coming in second. In the Champions Cup than