AC Milan has a long and successful history in the Champions League. Was the first Italian team to obtain it (in 1962/63) and is, in 2023, the second club that played the most finals. It is also the second team that has won it the most times: it is only surpassed by Real Madrid, which played 17 defining matches in this tournament and won it 14 times.
Bayern Munich also reached eleven finals, like Milan, but won six of those games, one less than the Rossoneri, who are also the Italian team with the highest number of official international trophies (21).
AC Milan played its first Champions League final in 1957/58 and lost it precisely to Alfredo Di Stéfano and Paco Gento’s Real Madrid, who won 3-2 in the final match played in Brussels. I would have revenge in the edition 1962when he reached that decisive moment again and He got the ear for the first time. Then they came another six which placed him in a prominent place in the list of winners of this important European competition.
Milan 2 – Benfica 1 (1963)
With Nereo Rocco as coach and the iron catenaccio as a defensive system, Milan defeated Benfica at Wembley in which Eusebio shone with two goals from Mazzola (the nickname by which the great Italian-Brazilian scorer José Altafini was popularly known.
Milan 4 – Ajax 1 (1969)
A triumph with a special flavor because the rival was none other than the Ajax of Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff. Thanks to his defensive solidity, the talent of Gianni Riveracaptain and brain of the team that Nero Rocco continued to lead, and Pierino Prati’s trebleMilan won their second Champions League at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Milan 4 – Star 1 (1989)
had to wait twenty years for the third orejona. Silvio Berlusconi, who became owner and president of the club in 1986, hired Arrigo Sacchi as a coach and three Dutch stars who were fundamental for it to shine like few times in its history: Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Marco Van Basten. After eliminating the famous Real Madrid team known as La Quinta del Buitre with a categorical 5 a 0 At the San Siro, Milan won the final played at the Camp Nou with two goals from Gullit and two from Van Basten.
Milan 1 – Benfica 0 (1990)
As in winning the first Champions League in its history, Milan faced the Portuguese team in the 1990 final. And he repeated the title in a match pretty boring played in Vienna. The winning goal was scored again by a Dutchman (Rijkaardin this case) and the team’s defenders also shone Alessandro Costacurta and Paolo Maldini (son of Cesare Maldini, coach of Milan that won the first Champions League in its history) and in the midfield the current Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti.
Milan 4 – Barcelona 0 (1994)
After narrowly losing the final of the previous edition of the Champions League with Olympique de Marseille (it was 1-0 in a match played in Munich), Fabio Capello added a key player to the squad – the French midfielder Marcel Desaillywho scored a goal in this final played in Athens in which they also scored Daniele Massaro (on two occasions) and the Montenegrin Dejan Savićević, author of de una vaselina unforgettable. He defensive work Milan was also notable: in the final they had to control forwards of the caliber of Hristo Stoichov and Romario and they undoubtedly succeeded.
Milan 0 – Juventus 0 (3-2 en marks de penalties) (2003)
The first Champions League final played by two Italian teams was a tribute to bolt. Milan exceeded with fair Ajax in an emotional match played at the San Siro and then went to the final thanks to the goal scored by the great Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko when his team played as a visitor against their classic rival, Inter, with whom they did not take advantage in the round-trip matches. In the Champions League final, which was played this time at Old Trafford, the hero was the Brazilian goalkeeper Dida, who stopped the penalties of the Frenchman Trezeguet and the Uruguayans Zalayeta and Montero. Carlo Ancelotti, who had already won a Champions League with Milan as a player, now repeated as the club’s coach.
Milan 2 – Liverpool 1 (2007)
The Milan’s last golden generationat least until 2023, said goodbye winning the seventh Champions in the history of the Italian club, again with Ancelotti on the bench and with a great game from Filippo Inzaghi, author of the two goals that won the final played in Athens. In that team they also shined Maldini (who with this victory added five orejonas to his personal history as a player), Pirlo, Seedorf and Kaka. Liverpool’s coach was a Spaniard, Rafa Benítez. Milan came to this Champions League affected by the Calciopoli scandal, which involved them with other Italian football clubs (Juventus, Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina), and although at first there were doubts about their participation in the tournament, they were there and won it.
He was born in Buenos Aires. He studied at the Círculo de Periodistas Deportivos and at the University of Buenos Aires. He worked at the public news agency Telam and the two most important newspapers in Argentina, Clarín and La Nación (where he continues as a film, music and theater critic). He is also a radio columnist at El Destape Radio (Argentina) and editor of Ciclosfera (Spain). He has lived in Madrid since 2021 and has worked for Relevo since May 2023. …
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2023-09-09 16:13:37
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