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6 unusual facts about A.C. Milan


Bobby Seith

This allowed Seith the opportunity to compete in the European Cup which had been denied him by his acrimonious departure from Turf Moor and he featured prominently in the Dark Blues run to the semi-final, where they eventually lost to eventual winners A.C. Milan.

Gre-No-Li

The denomination was colloquially used after these players composed a formidable trio of strikers while playing for the Swedish national team and Italian club AC Milan in the 1950s.

History of S.S. Cavese 1919

That championship is remembered especially for the crushing 2–1 victory in San Siro against AC Milan.

Jan-Arie van der Heijden

In January 2010, Ajax team mate Mitchell Donald joined Van der Heijden on loan from Ajax at the Tilburg club, His playing style has been compared to A.C. Milan star Clarence Seedorf.

Luca Pancalli

This is the second time such an event happened, the first time being after Genoa C.F.C. supporter Vincenzo Spagnolo was stabbed by an alleged AC Milan ultras member called Simone Brasaglia in 1995.

Makita International Tournament

Originally called the Wembley International Tournament, and organised by IEP Tournaments, it was first staged in August 1988, with Arsenal beating A.C. Milan in the final.


1997–98 Udinese Calcio season

Bierhoff, coach Alberto Zaccheroni and winger Thomas Helveg all left for Milan at the end of the season, ensuring Udinese had lots of work to do to stay at the level it was.

1998–99 A.C. Milan season

A.C. Milan returned to its previous glorious ways under the guidance of new coach Alberto Zaccheroni.

Amatori Rugby Milano

Between 1988 and 1997 Amatori Milano was part of the A.C. Milan sport club under the ownership of Silvio Berlusconi and won 4 domestic championship; when Berlusconi dropped the sport club in order to keep the football team only Amatori folded; the club were revived in 2002 and is currently coached by Marcello Cuttitta, a former Italian international rugby union player that played for Amatori in the Nineties.

André Cruz

He played central defender with Flamengo, A.C. Milan, Standard Liège, Sporting Clube de Portugal and the Brazilian national team.

Angelo Inganni

His frescoed the churches of San Marco and San Carlo in Milan as well as the parish church of Gussago, the town near Brescia to which he retired at the end of his career.

Aurora Pro Patria 1919

On January 3, 2013, the club was hosting A.C. Milan in a friendly, when the crowd aimed racist chants at A.C. Milan players, including M'Baye Niang, Urby Emanuelson, Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng.

Bert Slater

They also beat Sporting Clube de Portugal and Anderlecht to amazingly reach the European Cup semi-final, here they came up against cup favourites A.C Milan who proved to be too strong for Dundee, Milan went on to lift the trophy at Wembley Stadium.

Christian Abbiati

Christian Abbiati (born 8 July 1977 in Abbiategrasso, Milan) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Milan.

English clubs in the European Cup

Ipswich Town began the 1962–63 competition with a 14–1 aggregate victory over Floriana (including a 10–0 second leg win), but lost in the first round to A.C. Milan, who went on to win the final at Wembley.

Federal Correctional Institution, Milan

Helen Gillis and Evelyn Frechette, the wives of notorious bank robbers Baby Face Nelson and John Dillinger, served one-year sentences at FCI Milan in the mid-1930s after being convicted of aiding their husbands evade authorities.

Felipe Ventura dos Santos

In summer 2010, Genoa and Corinthians formed a deal to sign Felipe, as Genoa has loaned their first choice keeper Marco Amelia to A.C. Milan, and the Brazilian side signed Aldo Bobadilla as replacement.

Francesco Maria Richini

In Richini he found a deviation to the Baroque, as exemplified by his churches of Santa Maria alla Porta and of San Giuseppe.

Giorgio Treves de'Bonfili

Under his leadership, the Padova dispute over two games total in the Campionato Regionale del Veneto against Vicenza and two exhibition games in the Coppa Esposizione against Milan and Vicenza.

Gorgonzola, Milan

Both towns, known for their blue cow's-milk cheeses (Fourme d'Ambert and Gorgonzola cheese), have almost the same latitude: 45° 33' N for Ambert, 45° 32' N for Gorgonzola.

Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C.

Since 1995 the club competes in European club competitions, and has the highest rank among all Israeli clubs, with some outstanding achievements, such as wins against Chelsea, Milan, Hamburg, Paris Saint-Germain, Rangers, and Celtic.

John F. McClelland

In July 2008, McClelland assumed the role of vice chair of the European Club Association, along with Joan Laporta of FC Barcelona and Umberto Gandini of AC Milan.

Jorge Jesus

Highlights in the latter competition included a 3–0 home win against Portsmouth and a last-minute 0–1 defeat to A.C. Milan at the San Siro.

Marián Had

He was the second-choice left-back, behind Brazilian Ronny and, with Leandro Grimi's arrival in January 2008, on loan from A.C. Milan, he was deemed surplus to requirements by manager Paulo Bento, subsequently returning to Lokomotiv in February.

Mark Shield

He was also named as the fourth official in the final between Boca Juniors and A.C. Milan.

Milan, Michigan

A Federal Bureau of Prisons prison, the Federal Correctional Institution, Milan (FCI), is in adjacent York Charter Township.

Mohammed Gholam

Coincidentally, Gholam scored Al Sadd's only goal against A.C. Milan in a 2-1 defeat in a farewell match for former club legend Jafal Rashed Al-Kuwari in 2009.

Museo del Novecento

The Museum of Twentieth Century (Museo del Novecento in Italian) is located in the Arengario palace near Duomo square in the centre of Milan.

Paddy Sloan

After only a brief spell with Sheffield United, Sloan joined Milan for the 1948–49 season, and as a result he became the first Irish footballer to play in Serie A.

Pasi Rautiainen

In the 2003–04 season, he promised he'd walk from Helsinki to Porvoo (some 50 kilometres) if Deportivo were able to knock A.C. Milan out in the quarter finals which indeed happened.

Piazza del Duomo, Milan

The company that was responsible for the works, City of Milan Improvements Company of London, eventually experienced financial problems, so that the government of Milan had to take charge.

San Bartolomeo, Milan

The prior church had an iconic painting of the Madonna del Buon Aiuto (Our Lady of Good Help), originally attributed to Lucas Cranach, donated by Countess Teresa Gordone Serbelloni when the Ottoman army was nearing the siege of Vienna.

Santa Maria del Carmine, Milan

In the naves and transepts are several artworks, including a canvas by Camillo Procaccini depicting St. Charles Praying (1585), the Chapel of Madonna del Carmine, also with Procaccini paintings and a Madonna statue at the altar.

Telê Santana

In those same two seasons, São Paulo also claimed the world club title in Tokyo, beating first Johan Cruyff's FC Barcelona and then Fabio Capello's A.C. Milan.

The Last Shepherd

The 1st of October 2011, to film a scene of the movie, Marco Bonfanti brought a flock consisting of more than 700 sheep in Piazza del Duomo in Milan.

Walter Novellino

He started his professional career with Torino, then obtaining his major successes with Perugia and AC Milan, and being nicknamed Monzon (after an Argentine boxer) due to both his physical resemblance to him and his determination on the pitch.

William Garbutt

This was not the only part of managing in Italy that Garbutt set the proto-type for; he conducted Italy's first ever paid player transfers, where he signed two players from Andrea Doria and one from A.C. Milan.


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