 The club was founded in 1899 under the name Cricket and Football Club Milan (Milan Cricket and Football Club) by Alfred Edwards, a British expatriate. As a tribute to its origins, Milan still use the English spelling of the name of his city (Milan) rather than use the Italian spelling Milano. AC Milan History (1899 to present) "We will be a team of demons. Our colors are red and black fire marks indicate a fear that will attack the opponent! " -Herbert KilpinThe club was founded by two British expatriates, namely Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin with the name Milan Cricket and Football Club in the year December 16, 1899. At that time, Edwards became the first club president and Kilpin Milan became the first team captain Milan. 1901 season, Milan won his first title as champion of Italian football, after beating Genoa CFC 3-0 in the final of the Italian Football Championship. In 1908, part of the Italian players and the players from Switzerland who do not like the Italians and British dominance in the core squad Milan at the time, broke away from Milan and Internazionale form. Tenth Scudetto and Series B In 1970, Milan won three Coppa Italia titles and the Cup Winners' Cup second; however, Milan's main objective is the tenth Scudetto, which means getting the "star" of the team (in Italy, every team that won 10 league titles that star gets pinned on her dress ). In 1972 they won the UEFA Cup semi-finals, losing to the real winners, Tottenham Hotspur. Season 1972/1973 they almost won the scudetto kesepulh, but failed because less painful results of Hellas Verona FC in the last game of the season. AC Milan wait until season 1978/1979 for their tenth scudetto, led by Gianni Rivera, who retired from football after leading his team to the victory.  However, the worst result came to the "Rossoneri": after winning the season 1979/1980, Milan were relegated to Serie B by the FIGC, with SS Lazio, because gambling scandal Totonero 1980. In 1980/1981, Milan easily won the Serie B, and back to Serie A, where the disease recurred in the season 1981/1982, Milan were relegated again. Berlusconi arrival After a spate of problems hit Milan, and made a success of the club loses, AC Milan was bought by Italian entrepreneur, Silvio Berlusconi. Milan Berlusconi is a ray of hope at the time. He came in 1986. Berlusconi brought a new coach to Milan, Arrigo Sacchi, and three Dutch players, Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit, to return the team to glory. He also bought other players, like Roberto Donadoni, Carlo Ancelotti, and Giovanni Galli. Sacchi era Sacchi won the 1987-1988 Serie A season. In 1988-1989, Milan won its third Champions League title, defeating Steaua Bucureşti 4-0 in the final, and two Intercontinental Cup title defeating National de Medellin (1-0, goal came in extra time). Tim began to repeat their triumph in the subsequent seasons, beating SL Benfica, and Olimpia Asunción in 1990. Europe win their squad is: Goalkeeper: Giovanni Galli Defender: Mauro Tassotti - Alessandro Costacurta - Franco Baresi - Paolo Maldini Midfielders: Angelo Colombo - Frank Rijkaard - Carlo Ancelotti - Roberto Donadoni Attacker: Ruud Gullit - Marco van Basten - Lothar Kahn Capello Era When Sacchi left Milan to coach Italy, Milan coach Fabio Capello made the next, and Milan won its heyday as Gli Invicibli (The Invicibles) and Dream Team. With 58 games without a single defeat Invicibli create a dream team in all sectors like Baresi, Costacurta and Maldini led the best defense, Marcel Desailly, Donadoni, and Ancelotti in the midfield, and Dejan Savicevic, Zvonimir Boban, and Daniele Massaro playing in front of the sector. At the time of the trained Capello, Milan never stop tour to Indonesia in order to seasonal and local fight club Persib Bandung. The match starts at the Bung Karno Main Stadium on June 4, 1994 Milan won by a landslide score 8-0. Milan winning goal scored by Dejan Savicevic ('17) ('18), Gianluigi Lentini ('26), Paolo Baldieri ('27) ('48) ('58), Christian Antigori ('68), and Stefano Desideri (' 78).  Tabarez to Terim (The hard times) AC Milan In 1996-1997 After the departure of Fabio Capello in 1996, Oscar Washington Tabarez Milan recruit but hard struggle under his control less successful and they always lose some games early. In an effort to regain its past glory, they call back Arrigo Sacchi to replace Tabarez. Milan get a hard slap their worst defeat in Serie A, humiliated by Juventus FC in their own homes San Siro with a 1-4 score. Milan buy some new players like Ibrahim Ba, Christophe Dugarry and Edgar Davids. Milan struggled and ended the 1996-1997 season ranked eleventh in Serie A. AC Milan In 1997-1998 Sacchi was replaced by Capello in the next season. Capello signed a new contract with Milan recruit many potential players such as Christian Ziege, Patrick Kluivert, Jesper Blomqvist, and Leonardo;, but the result is just as bad as the previous season. They ended the 1997-1998 season ranked tenth. These results remain unacceptable Milan officials, and as Sacchi, Capello was sacked. AC Milan In 1998-1999 In their search for a new manager, Alberto Zaccheroni Milan draw attention. Zaccheroni was manager of Udinese who had ended the 1997-1998 season on a high rank in 3rd place. Milan signed Zaccheroni along with two players from Udinese, Oliver Bierhoff and Thomas Helveg. Milan also signed Roberto Ayala, Luigi Sala and Andres Guglielminpietro and with Zaccheroni favorite 3-4-3 formation, the club won the scudetto Zaccheroni brought the 16 back to Milan. The starting XI is: Christian Abbiati; Luigi Sala, Alessandro Costacurta, Paolo Maldini; Thomas Helveg, Demetrio Albertini, Massimo Ambrosini, Andres Guglielminpietro; Zvonimir Boban, George Weah, Oliver Bierhoff. AC Milan In 1999-2000 Despite its success in the previous season, failed to transform Milan Zaccheroni as The Dream Team first. In the following season, despite the emergence of Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko, Milan disappoint their fans both in the 1999-2000 UEFA Champions League or Serie A. Milan out of the Champions League early, winning only one of the six matches (three draws and two lost) and ended the 1999-2000 season in 3rd place. Milan does not become a challenge to two scudetto contenders at the time, SS Lazio and Juventus. AC Milan In 2000-2001 In the following season, Milan qualify for the 2000-2001 UEFA Champions League after defeating Dinamo Zagreb 9-1 on aggregate. Milan start the Champions League in high spirits, defeating Beşiktaş JK from Turkey and Spanish giants FC Barcelona, which at that time consisted of world-class international superstars, Rivaldo and Patrick Kluivert. But Milan's performance began to decline seriously, the series against a team (which is seen as a small / weak technically to Milan), especially the 2-1 defeat by Juventus in Serie A and 1-0 to Leeds United. In the second round of the Champions League, Milan have only won once and drawn four times. They failed to beat Deportivo de La Coruña of Spain in the final game and Zaccheroni was fired. Cesare Maldini, father of Paolo team captain, was appointed and things get better soon. Maldini's official coaching debut in Milan started with a 6-0 win over the U.S. Bari, who still has young guns, Antonio Cassano. It was also under the leadership of Maldini that Milan's city rivals Internazionale beat with incredible score 6-0, a score that was never repeated and where Serginho starred in the match. However, after the peak shape, Milan began to lose again including a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Vicenza Calcio, with the only goal of the game scored by a Luca Toni. Regardless of these results, the board of directors insisted that Milan Milan reach fourth place in the league at the end of the season, but Maldini failed and the team ended up in sixth place. AC Milan In 2001-2002 Milan started the 2000-2001 season with the signing of the contract more star players including Cosmin Contra and Javi Moreno who took Deportivo Alavés to the UEFA Cup. They also signed Kakha Kaladze (from Dynamo Kyiv), Rui Costa (from AC Fiorentina), Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus), Martin Laursen (from Hellas Verona), Jon Dahl Tomasson (Feyenoord), Ümit Davala (from Galatasaray) and Andrea Pirlo (from Inter Milan). Fatih Terim was appointed as manager, replacing Cesare Maldini, and quite successful. However, after five months at the club, Milan is not in the top five league and Terim was sacked for failing to meet the expectations of directors. Ancelotti era Terim replaced by Carlo Ancelotti, despite rumors that Franco Baresi will be the new manager. Regardless of injury problems defender Paolo Maldini, Ancelotti managed and ended the season ranked fourth in 2001-02, the last place for the Champions League. The starting XI when it was Cristian Abiatti; Cosmin Contra, Alessandro Costacurta, Martin Laursen, Kakha Kaladze, Gennaro Gattuso, Demetrio Albertini, Serginho; Manuel Rui Costa; Andriy Shevchenko, Filippo Inzaghi. Ancelotti led Milan to the Champions League title in season 2002/2003 when they beat Juventus by a shootout in Manchester, England. The last time Milan won prestisus Italian champions by winning the season 2003/2004 as well as putting attacker Andriy Shevchenko as the top scorer in the Italian League, then the rossoneri-even more feared.  Tides 2006-2008 In the Italian league Serie A 2006/2007, Milan linked with the Calciopoli scandal which resulted in the club must start the competition with a reduction of 8 points. Even so, the Italian public still proud because in the midst of the destruction of the image of Italian football due to Calciopoli, Milan managed to win the football competition of the most prestigious in the world, the Champions League. The results obtained after conquering Milan Liverpool 2-1 through two goals from Filippo Inzaghi. Even this title to complete the revenge Milan lost on penalties to Liverpool two years ago. Terbanyakpun scorer title disabet genius player Milan, Kaká to score 10 goals. In mid-season, Milan bring former world player, Ronaldo of Real Madrid striker to strengthen their fleet after the young striker Marco Borriello found guilty of doping. Season 2007/2008, Milan was forced to play in the UEFA Cup after only managed to rank 5th under Fiorentina by a margin of 2 points. In the last Serie A, Milan's 4-1 win over Udinese, but at the same time, Fiorentina won 1-0 at Torino with the eventual second place team no change. To improve performance in the following season (2008/2009), Milan buy some new players, including Mathieu Flamini from Arsenal, and Gianluca Zambrotta and Ronaldinho are both originally from Barcelona. On the transfer of half of the season 2008/2009, Milan bring David Beckham on loan from the United States soccer club LA Galaxy. Leonardo Era At the end of the season 2008/2009, Milan was ranked 3rd league Serie A standings, two ranks below local rivals, Internazionale won the Scudetto and the under Juventus. To rectify this unsatisfactory result, Milan bring young coach and former Milan player 90s, Milan coach Leonardo to replace the previous, Ancelotti who "move to London", precisely club Chelsea FC. Milan also had to remove some of his players, among others:
Biggest problems that block the transfer of the Milan players are always thinking twice about spending money for the sake of buying a player. In July and August 2009, Milan getting two new players, namely Oguchi Onyewu, who is a former Standard Liege defender on a free transfer and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar former Real Madrid striker with a contract value of 14.7 million euros. But the results are in Milan get on the pre-harvest season many disappointments, derived by new signing Milan during the pre-season tour just because Huntelaar Oguchi Onyewu joined in August. Season 2009/2010 Milan begins with unsatisfactory results. Began when Milan grabbed a 2-2 draw against the Los Angeles Galaxy, etc., Milan continued to reap negative results. Milan mired in the arena of World Football Challange 2009. In the event the Audi Cup, Milan also defeated by Bayern Munich with a score of 1-4. In fact, when facing derby August 30, 2009 against Internazionale at San Siro, Milan humiliating defeat by a score of 0-4, also broke the record for the biggest victory of Inter in the San Siro. Mid-October 2009, assessment of the performance of the various parties as coach Leonardo who had been on the lowest point due to a spate of poor performance, began to escalate with the success of Leonardo led Milan beat AS Roma 2-1 at the San Siro. After the victory, Milan also reap positive results in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium with a dramatic victory over Real Madrid 3-2. And after that, Milan returned reap victory over Chievo Verona at Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi, home to Chievo, winning 2-1 to AC Milan. On 1 November 2009, Milan defeated Parma FC at the San Siro 2-0 and led Milan to rank 4 standings (Zone entered the Champions League final). On 19 November 2009, 0-2 defeat of Juventus FC of Cagliari makes Milan was in the runner-up at the bottom of Internazionale, because, a few hours after the defeat of Juventus, Milan won the match with Catania, 2-0. Entering the final season April 2010 Serie A, Milan who was in third place and only 4 points difference from the first rank kelasemen AS Roma, and just 1 points with second place Inter Milan. But in the end Milan must submit two times in a row from 2-1 Sampdoria and Palermo with the score 3-1. With the defeat, the dream of Milan for the title this season vanished. In the final match at giornata Serie A 2009/2010 between Milan against Juventus, Leonardo led Milan beat Juventus 3-0 at San Siro, while giving his final contribution to the rossoneri, and announced that he would stop train to Milan next season. Since the resignation of Leonardo, a lot of speculation about the new coach who believes Milan, but on June 25, 2010, Milan announced a surprise party for selecting a new coach Massimiliano Allegri as Milan. Allegri era, 18th Scudetto Season 2010/2011, Milan was led by Massimiliano Allegri, with a variety of updates ranging from the sponsor (bwin.com replaced Emirates), to the line of players. At the end of the transfer market, bringing a surprise Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic from FC Barcelona (with an option to purchase loans and 24 million euros at the end of the season), and Robinho from Manchester City. Beginning of the season, Milan struck with 0-2 defeat of AC promotion team Cesena, although the match both Ibrahimovic and Robinho debut. In the derby match on 14 November 2010, Milan beat Internazionale at the Giuseppe Meazza with a single goal Ibrahimovic penalty. On the transfer of half of the season, Milan brought a number of new players such as Antonio Cassano of UC Sampdoria, Mark van Bommel of Bayern Munich, and Nicola Legrottaglie from Juventus FC. In the Champions League, Milan who broke through the group stage with a shamed Tottenham Hotspur at the San Siro 0-1 score. March 13, 2011, Milan suffered a 1-1 draw with bottom of the standings U.S. residents Bari, next week March 19, Milan humiliated U.S. Città di Palermo 0-1 at the Stadio Renzo Barbera. The loss left the distance point to position 2 Internazionale reduced to 2 points, and it happened right before the second round of the Milan derby. April 2 derby between Milan and Inter at the San Siro last, ended with Milan winning 3-0, thanks to 2 goals and 1 goal Pato Cassano. On May 7, 2011, Milan earned a 0-0 draw with the U.S. Rome, 1 additional point to make points Milan draw to 78 points, ranking second was overtaken Inter having lost head-to-head, and made Milan won the Serie A scudetto or 18th. On August 6, 2011, was reunited with Inter Milan in order to match the Italian Super Cup, Milan as Serie A champions Inter met as Cup champion Italy. Milan won the match 2-1 with goals from Ibrahimovic and Boateng, while a goal scored by Wesley Sneijder Inter, Milan make winning 1 Super Cup (6) of Inter (5)  Achievement When calculated based on the total number of titles, then Milan is one of the most successful clubs in Italy, winning the title with a total of more than 29 trophies and become the second largest after Juventus (40 domestic trophies). Milan also became the most successful club in the world with Boca Juniors, with a record 14 trophies confederation (UEFA-European) and 4 trophy world. Milan star also wore a sign that they won more than 10 titles Serie A. Plus, Milan also wear Coat UEFA award (UEFA Badge of Honour) on the left sleeve of their uniforms since won more than five Champions League titles. National Championships Series A: Champion (18): 1901; 1906; 1907; 1950-51; 1954-55; 1956-57; 1958-59; 1961-62; 1967-68; 1978-79; 1987-88; 1991-92; 1992-93 ; 1993-94; 1995-96; 1998-99; 2003-2004; 2010-2011 Runner-up (15): 1902; 1947-48; 1949-50; 1951-52, 1955-56, 1960-61; 1964-65; 1968-69; 1970-71; 1971-72; 1972-1973; 1989 -90; 1990-91; 2004-05; 2011-12 Series B: Champion (2): 1980-81; 1982-83 Copa Italia: Champion (5): 1966-67; 1971-72; 1972-73; 1976-77; 2002-03 Runner-up (7): 1941-42; 1967-68; 1970-71; 1974-75; 1984-85; 1989-90; 1997-98 Italian Super Cup: Champion (6): 1988 1992, 1993; 1994; 2004; 2011 Runner-up (3): 1996; 1999; 2003 European Championships Cup / Champions League: Champion (7): 1962-63; 1968-69; 1988-89; 1989-90; 1993-94; 2002-03; 2006-07 Runner-up (4): 1957-58; 1992-93; 1994-95; 2004-05 European Super Cup: Champion (5): 1989; 1990; 1994; 2003; 2007 Runner-up (2): 1973; 1993 Cup Winners: Champion (2): 1967-68; 1972-73 Runner-up (1): 1973-74 World Championships Intercontinental Cup / FIFA Club World Cup: Champion (4): 1969 1989; 1990; 2007 Runner-up (4): 1963, 1993; 1994; 2003 Other championships Latin Cup (Cup for the most important European clubs in the 40s and 50s. Held since 1949 until 1957 between the champions of France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Championships disappeared after the start of the Champions Trophy.): Champion (3): 1951; 1956 Runner-up (1): 1953 Mitropa Cup: Champion (1): 1981-82 Dubai Championship Cup Champion (3): 2009, 2011, 2012 Santiago Bernabéu Trophy Champion (2): 1988, 1990 Runner-up (1): 1999 Trofeo Luigi Berlusconi Champion (12): 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Runner-up (9): 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2010 Milan Statistical Record Paolo Maldini till now total a record for Serie A appearances for Milan with 1000 ± total appearances, and 600 of them obtained from Series A (May 14, 2007, not including playoff games). Subsequently he was known as the player most often featured in Series A of all time. Milan top scorer in the history held by Gunnar Nordahl, who scored 254 goals in 268 games. Andriy Shevchenko is in second place with 243 goals in 298 games, and the highest scorer in the current Milan squad is Filippo Inzaghi, with 101 goals in 220 games. Milan has a unique record, but impressive, when following the season 1991/1992. Milan has never lost in the season. In total, Milan have not lost in 58 matches, starting with a 0-0 draw against Parma at May 26, 1991 and ironically ending with a 1-0 home defeat by Parma as well, March 21, 1993. This unbeaten streak is the third longest record in European football, Steaua Bucharest with under 104 games without defeat and Celtic with 68 games without defeat.
In 2007, Milan along with Boca Juniors of Argentina holds the club with the most international titles FIFA version. This status because they, Milan could dominate ranked the world's greatest football club in the range of 2007. References: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Milan |
Labels: AC Milan, Big Team, Italy, Serie A
