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On 16th December 1899 a group of fans, gathered in a room of the Hotel du Nord, and thus formally established the sports club which had actually long been active: the Milan Football & Cricket Club.The first Club’s headquarters were established in 1899 in the Wineshop at Via Berchet in Milan. That was the start of the glorious history of AC Milan, which has written memorable pages of football history thus becoming - especially over the last fifteen years - one of the strongest and most popular clubs in the world. The rossoneri’s past has become a legend, as well as the men who contributed to make it: Presidents, Coaches and Players. The names of authoritative people have marked the course of Milan club’s history: from Alfred Edwards, the English founder who, two years after, succeeded in winning the first Italian Champion title, up to Silvio Berlusconi, the president who has won more than anyone else. Highly prestigious victories attained everywhere in the world proving the power and the organisation of a unique group. A top club is also recognisable by its strategies and choices of its leaders, especially coaches. Milan’s successful history is indeed also linked to its benches, hosting the greatest Italian football coaches, such as Gipo Viani, Nereo Rocco and Nils Liedholm, the masters of the Sixties; Arrigo Sacchi and Fabio Capello, as their heirs, based their tactics and strategy on a modern, brilliant and spectacular football. Sacchi and Capello, in Berlusconi’s management era, won and triumphed providing marvellous emotions. With Sacchi, Milan won, in four seasons, a league championship title, the European Champion’s Clubs’ Cup twice, the European Supercup twice and the Intercontinental Cup twice consecutively; with Capello four league championship titles, a European Supercup and a European Champion Clubs’ Cup in five years. Most recently, besides the current coach Carlo Ancelotti, symbolising the continuity with the most successful seasons of Berlusconi’s era, Alberto Zaccheroni in his two-year period led Milan to win its latest, exciting league championship title. Milan has become a winning team in Italy and worldwide also thanks to its champions, players envied by all teams in the world: Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordhal, Nils Liedholm (the mythical Swedish "Gre-No-Li" trio), the Uruguayan Juan Alberto Schiaffino, the Brazilian José Altafini. Then Gianni Rivera, still considered one of the best Italian football players ever, accompanied in his extraordinary play actions by Anquiletti, Trapattoni, Lodetti, Sormani and Prati. But Rivera’s name is also linked to the name of another great player. When Rivera won the star’s league championship title, there was a young talented man playing in defence, Franco Baresi, who taking over the baton from him, would later become the symbol and flag of the record-holder Milan for twenty years, fully deserving the title of "Milan’s Player of the Century" in a public survey. That Milan will be remembered as the "unbeatable" team. In the Captain Baresi’s Milan, extraordinary players, such as the unequalled Dutch trio of Marco Van Basten, Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard played and alternated. Over time, further top players obtained great success, such as the genius from Montenegro, Dejan Savicevic, the Liberian George Weah, the Croatian Zvonimir Boban, the French Marcel Desailly, just to name a few of them.Those teams could also rely on the most effective, essential contribution of Italian champions, such as: Carlo Ancelotti, Paolo Maldini, Mauro Tassotti, Daniele Massaro, Alessandro Costacurta, Alberigo Evani, Roberto Donadoni, Filippo Galli, Demetrio Albertini, Roberto Baggio, Sebastiano Rossi. Next to some of them, still playing at top levels, there are now the new stars: Massimo Ambrosini, Christian Abbiati, Serginho, Gennaro Ivan Gattuso and Andriy Shevchenko, Manuel Rui Costa and Filippo Inzaghi and among the newest entries, the outstanding champions Alessandro Nesta and Rivaldo.
The performances of these players endowed with a strong personality enhance the style and character of the Club. Technical staff and players with a winning mentality represent a true example for the youth approaching football. Milan is living the present rich of inherited values and is about to face the future with ambitious goals. The team presents itself to its fans with a hundred years football tradition spent with constant commitment and high professional skills on the pitch and off it, ready to start a new season and face new, exciting challenges.Our Club’s commitment towards the youth has been further enhanced. Milan aims at becoming an important partner not only in the training of new football talents, but also in their personal growth: the Youth Project, indeed, takes care of every aspect of the development of young players in the belief that a great champion is first of all a great man. Approaching today’s Milan means having a flexible tool able, according to the specific requirements, both to address a very wide public, national and international, and target specific segments. Milan, as a synthesis of sport and entrepreneurial values, synonymous with success and quality, is a cross-acting means capable of addressing all sectors of society.
