Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kaká helped Milan win the Serie A title in his first season. Milan finished runner-up in the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League with Kaká being the top assist provider of the tournament and being named the UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year. He led Milan to win the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League and was the
Paolo Maldini is Milan's all-time record appearance-maker.. Associazione Calcio Milan is an Italian professional football club based in Milan.The club was founded in December 1899 as Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club, and played their first competitive match on 15 April 1900, when they entered the semi-final of the 1900 Italian Football Championship.
In 2003–04, Associazione Calcio Milan managed to claim their first Serie A title since 1998–99. Arguably, this was the pinnacle of Carlo Ancelotti 's Milan side, as the players proved they had the ability to perform effectively for the whole season.
The 2009–10 Associazione Calcio Milan season was the 76th Serie A season in the history of the club. It was the club's first season since 1983–84 not to feature captain Paolo Maldini , who retired at the end of the previous campaign.
The 2007 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in the world as judged by an international panel of sports journalists, was awarded to Kaká. [1] [2] This was the first year in which players from clubs outside the UEFA federation were eligible for nomination; this change also led to an increase in the voting pool to include journalists from outside UEFA countries.
The 1960s began with the debut of Milan's legend Gianni Rivera in 1960: [31] he would remain with the club for the rest of his career for the following 19 seasons. In 1961, Nereo Rocco was appointed as new coach of the club, [ 32 ] which under his leadership won immediately a scudetto in 1961–62 , followed, in the next season, by Milan's ...
The most successful person to manage Milan is Nereo Rocco, who won two Serie A titles, three Coppa Italia, two European Cups, two Cup Winners' Cups and one Intercontinental Cup during his tenures as head coach and technical director. Rocco has also been Milan's longest-serving manager, managing the club for 459 matches (323 as head coach and ...
Milan started their 2013–14 UEFA Champions League campaign in the play-off round against Dutch runners-up PSV, winning over two legs to qualify for the group stage. For the fourth time in the last three Champions League tournaments, Milan were matched-up against Barcelona. Milan qualified as group runners-up, behind the Catalans.