[Fillipo Simone]

AC MILAN 1978/1979

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Campione d'Italia 1979; Albertosi, Chiodi, Morini, Bigon, Sartori, Rigamonti;
(from left to right) Collovati, Boldini, De Vecchi, coach Liedholm, Bet, Maldera, Capello, second coach Gasparini;
Carotti, Buriani, Rivera, Antonelli, Baresi, Novellino

Notable players:

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Milan players - apps./goals

Aldo Maldera 30/9
Enrico Albertosi 30/0
Franco Baresi 30/0
Walter Novellino 30/4
Ruben Buriani 29/1
Walter De Vecchi 28/5
Fluvio Collovati 27/0
Alberigo Bigon 26/12
Stefano Chiodi 24/7
Roberto Antonelli 21/5
Aldo Bet 17/0
Giorgio Morini 14/1
Simone Boldini 14/1
Gianni Rivera 13/1
Fabio Capello 8/0
Giovanni Sartori 7/0
Alberto Minoia 2/1
Antonio Rigamonti 1/0


Milan season stats:

Finished 1st (44 points; second placed Perugia 41)
Milan's 10th scudetto - lo scudetto della stella
17 W/10 D/3 L
goal diff. - 46:19 (best attack in the leage, second best defense after Perugia)
biggest win - Milan-Cantanzaro 4:0; Milan-Fiorentina 4:1

other league stats:

Perugia's best ever finish - 2nd in Serie A
Capocannonieri - Bruno Giordano (Lazio)
Perugia's defense finished up conceeding only 16 goals, leaded by Antonio Ceccarini

(IMG:http://espndeportes-assets.espn.go.com/2003/photos2007/0519/a_GianniRivera_vt.jpg) Milan captain and legend Gianni Rivera ended his career with this scudetto

(IMG:http://www.magliarossonera.it/immagini/capitani/baresi8788.jpg) Soon to be Milan-captain Franco Baresi's second season with the Rossoneri

So, thank's to Tennie's Sacchi-Milan post we got to the idea to make more threads. Initially the Capello thread was next to be made, but I wanted to test the idea with you and so I decided to start with one that is a bit more simple.

Any additional info, questions, adds, etc. go here or you can PM me. All the talks about the former players (well except Capello and Baresi who got their own threads) and the Italian-football 70ties...please here!

This post has been edited by Fillipo Simone: Nov 21 2008, 05:47 PM

[acid911]

Great idea and thread, Fillipo (minus the hard-to-read font choice). (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) Here are the results from all Milan matches, the ones on the left being before the winter break, and the scores to the right are for the return legs:

1-0 Milan-Avellino 0-1
0-3 Roma-Milan 0-1
0-0 Milan-Ascoli 1-0
1-3 Atalanta-Milan 1-1
4-1 Milan-Fiorentina 3-2
1-0 Juventus-Milan 0-0
1-0 Milan-Inter 2-2
2-3 Vicenza-Milan 0-0
1-1 Napoli-Milan 1-0
1-1 Milan-Perugia 1-1
1-0 Milan-Torino 3-0
1-3 Verona-Milan 1-2
4-0 Milan-Catanzaro 3-1
0-1 Bologna-Milan 0-0
2-0 Milan-Lazio 1-1

This was Milan's tenth Scudetto, meaning the club was allowed to wear the star after this (the symbol of ten badges). What's more amazing is Franco Baresi playing all 30 matches, starting from into his second season. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/king.gif) We were allowed into the group stages of the CL, the other five into the UEFA Cup. Here is the standings table:

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A pity for Perugia, though, who finished the season without losing a single match. They were excluded from Serie A because of financial trouble in 2005. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) A new heir club was born, now called Perugia Calcio, which finds itself in the depths of Serie C1. Got promoted this year into B where they finished 5th season.

An interesting trivia, this was the same club that famously criticized it's player (Ahn Jung-Hwan of South Korea) after his goal in the 2002 World Cup against Italy. Paolo's last match. Other famous players to play here were Hidetoshi Nakata (Japans first major international star), and Al-Saadi Qadhafi, the son of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi.

[Fillipo Simone]

Thanks acid.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I expect more comments from the others as well...

And yes, I'll change the font for the next one.

This scudetto is called "star scudetto" because of the star we got after winning 10 of them.

Talking about Perugia and their stars, we have to mention also Matrix, Marco Negri and the croatian Milan Rapaic. From Milan players who once wore the Perugia dress we should mention Sebastiano Rossi, Zeljko Kalac, Federico Giunti and Rino Gattuso.

Also, this season introduced Claudio Prandelli in the Atalanta dress.

[acid911]

Thanks acid.. I expect more comments from the others as well...

People aren't that much into history, as you and me. They leave it to the big boys. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) To be brutally honest, they should be. There is no future unless you know about your history, and that's true with everything from football clubs to nations, and computers to dirty underwear.

[kurtsimonw]

Wow, how unlucky were Perugia!? Not losing a game and only conceeding 16 goals, but no title? That's got to hurt. Oh well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

There was an awful lot of draws back then.

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Nov 22 2008, 11:46 AM

[acid911]

Wow, how unlucky were Perugia!? Not losing a game and only conceeding 16 goals, but no title? That's got to hurt. Oh well.

Sounds almost like the current Milan. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Minus the losing a game part, we've lost two.

[Fillipo Simone]

Sounds almost like the current Milan. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Minus the losing a game part, we've lost two.

Mmmh the '78/79 Perugia had terrible goal-scoring problems. Speggiorin (? never heard) was their first striker with 9 goals...

One question I wanted to ask months ago, and now seems the proper time - Juve, Cremonese, Foggia and Inter player Erminio Favalli...is he Giuseppe's father, or a relative of him? Erminio was a very good defender in the late 60ties. Also, Giuseppe started his career at Cremonese, were Erminio was coach or assistaint coach that time?

Oh...acid...yes, I think people underestimate history, but I'd say it's the usual mistake.

This post has been edited by Fillipo Simone: Nov 22 2008, 12:11 PM

[acid911]

One question I wanted to ask months ago, and now seems the proper time - Juve, Cremonese, Foggia and Inter player Erminio Favalli...is he Giuseppe's father, or a relative of him? Erminio was a very good defender in the late 60ties. Also, Giuseppe started his career at Cremonese, were Erminio was coach or assistaint coach that time?

I don't think he was the father, or related to Favster in any way. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) Besides Erminio never was a coach, though he served as the director of football both with Cremonese and Palermo. As for the second question, yes he launched the career of Giuseppe and other players such as Gianluca Vialli, Attilio Lombardo while his time there, but related he was not.

Oh...acid...yes, I think people underestimate history, but I'd say it's the usual mistake.

FACT. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) History is the shizzle!

[Fillipo Simone]

Thanks, it bothered me for a while... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[acid911]

Thanks, it bothered me for a while...

It's nothing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Besides, if he was related we'd have heard something coming from Milan seeing as Erminio died earlier this year on April 18, 2008 (aged 64). Something certainly would have come out from both the club, or at the very least Giuseppe were he his father.

Anyway, Erminio was a decent, if not spectacular, player of his time.

[Fillipo Simone]

Actually, now that you said he died recently I found this italian article:

CALCIO: MORTO ERMINIO FAVALLI, EX JUVE, INTER E PALERMO
PALERMO (ITALPRESS) - E' scomparso improvvisamente questa mattina all'eta' di 64 anni l'ex giocatore e direttore sportivo Erminio Favalli, stroncato da un infarto. E' lo zio del difensore ex laziale, oggi al Milan, Giuseppe Favalli. Erminio Favalli nasce a Cremona il 29 gennaio 1944. Cresciuto nella Cremonese, si trasferisce all'Inter nell'estate del 1964 (vincendo uno scudetto) e dai nerazzurri e' ceduto al Foggia. Da li' il passaggio alla Juventus che lo preleva per la stagione 1966-67. In bianconero si ferma per quattro anni e colleziona 85 presenze (60 in campionato, 14 in Coppa Italia e 11 nelle competizioni europee) segnando 5 reti (2 in campionato e 3 nelle Coppe europee). "Favalli e' un giocatore impastato di estro e non privo di tecnica veloce, cioe' istintiva - diceva di lui Heriberto Herrera - che e' tutto forza e poco calcolo, che e' una forza della natura". Favalli disputa poi una stagione in serie B al Mantova (una rete in 30 presenze), quindi nella stagione 1971-72 il trasferimento al Palermo dove resta sino alla stagione 1976-77. In rosanero Favalli, tornante dotato di grande estro e creativita', colleziona in sei stagioni in serie B 183 presenze segnando in tutto 6 reti. (ITALPRESS). 18-Apr-08 12:37 NNNN

So it seems he was his uncle. But it's the only article I found mentioning that.

[mishie]

I take exception to the history and the big boys comment!!

i take the history of this club very serioulsy thank you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
anyways me and Tennie were discssing the Sacchi Milan team after the Lecce game and i've got a idea or 2 and will mention them at a later date (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[acid911]

So it seems he was his uncle. But it's the only article I found mentioning that.

Thanks for the heads up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I take exception to the history and the big boys comment!!
i take the history of this club very serioulsy thank you

You're welcome. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) And congrats on your lifetime membership to the big boys club!

[mishie]

You're welcome. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) And congrats on your lifetime membership to the big boys club!

hehe thanks will roll out some ideas in the next week or so (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[acid911]

hehe thanks will roll out some ideas in the next week or so

Can't wait. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/graduated.gif)