History Associazione Calcio Milan (AC Milan)

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Associazione Calcio Milan (AC Milan) is an Italian football club based in Milan.

They play with a red-striped uniform of black and white pants (sometimes black), so called fifth place ("red-black"). Milan is the second most successful team in Italian football history, winning the Serie A Italian Cup 17 times and five times.

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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 town (Milan) rather than use the Italian spelling of Milano.

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History Of Associazione Calcio Milan

The club was founded by two British expatriates, namely Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin named Cricket and Football Club in Milan on December 16, 1899. At that time, Edwards became the first club president Kilpin Milan and Milan became the first team captain. 1901 season, Milan won his first title as the Italian soccer champions, after beating Genoa CFC 3-0 at the Italian Football Championship final. In 1908, some players from Italy and the players from Switzerland who do not like the Italians and British dominance in the heart of Milan's squad at the time, broke away from Milan and Internazionale form.

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Period GreNoLi

In the decade of the 50s, Milan was feared in world football field because it has GreNoLi trio, consisting of Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm. All three are players from Sweden. Gren and Nordahl operating in front of the sector as a striker, while Liedholm support the attack as a shadow striker (playmaker). The team in this period is also inhabited by a group of quality players in his era, such as Lorenzo Buffon, Cesare Maldini, and Carlo Annovazzi. AC Milan's most successful victory by Juventus created February 5, 1950, with the score 7-1, and Gunnar Nordahl scored a hat-trick.

Nereo Rocco Era

Milan returned to win the 1961/1962 season. His coach at that time was Nereo Rocco, an innovative football coach, known as the inventor of catenaccio tactics (defense chain). Within the team including Gianni Rivera and José Altafini both still young. The next season, with goals Altafini, Milan won their first European Cup (later known as the UEFA Champions League) by beating Benfica 2-1. This is also the first time an Italian team won the European Cup.

Even so, during the 1960s, winning trophies Milan began to shrink, mainly because of heavy opposition from the Inter-trained Helenio Herrera. Next scudetto came only in 1967/1968, thanks to a goal Pierino Prati, topskor Serie A in season, the Cup Winners Cup been won when beating Hamburger SV, and also thanks to two goals by Kurt Hamrin. AC Milan next season, won a second European Cup (4-1 to AFC Ajax), and in 1969 won the first Intercontinental Cup, after defeating Estudiantes de La Plata from Argentina in a dramatic two-leg (3-0, 1-2).

Tenth Scudetto and Series B

In 1970, Milan won the Coppa Italia title and three Cup Winners' Cup second, however, Milan's main goal is the tenth Scudetto, which means get the "star" for the team. In 1972 they reached the UEFA Cup semifinals, losing to the real winners, Tottenham Hotspur. 1972/1973 season, they almost won the scudetto kesepulh, but failed because of the painful defeat of Hellas Verona FC in the final game of the season. AC Milan waited until the 1978/1979 season to reach their tenth scudetto, led by Gianni Rivera, who retired from football after leading his team to win it.

However, the worst comes to the "Rossoneri": after winning the 1979/1980 season, Milan relegated to Serie B by the FIGC, with SS Lazio, because Totonero gambling scandal in 1980. In 1980/1981, Milan won the Serie B with ease, and return to Serie A, in which the disease recurred in the 1981/1982 season, Milan relegated again.

The golden age (Capello Era)

When Sacchi left Milan for the Italian coach, Fabio Capello made the next coach of Milan, and Milan won the gold as the GLI Invicibli (The Invicibles) and Dream Team. With 58 games without a single defeat Invicibli make a dream team in all sectors like Baresi, Costacurta, and Maldini lead the best defense, Marcel Desailly, Donadoni, and Ancelotti in the midfield, and Dejan Savićević, Zvonimir Boban, and Daniele Massaro playing in front of the sector.

2009 (Age of Leonardo)

Milan started the season 2009/2010 with unsatisfactory results. Early calamity started when Milan won 2-2 draw against the Los Angeles Galaxy, etc., Milan continued to reap the negative results. Milan mired in the arena of World Football Challange in 2009 with the basic occupied standings, under sekota rival, Internazionale, Club América, and Chelsea. In the event the Audi Cup, Milan was also defeated by Bayern Munich with a 1-4 score. Even when facing derby August 30, 2009 against Internazionale at San Siro, Milan's embarrassing defeat by a score of 0-4, also broke the record for the biggest victory of Inter at San Siro.