[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.