The great Milan team

[Bruce Wayne]

Super article on the Guardian about the great Sacchi led Milan team. Particularly interesting is the bit about Sacchi never having played the game professionally, yet he went on to become one of the great coaches.

With the likes of Sven, Mourinho, Villas Boas, Wenger, Houllier, Carlos Alberto Parreira et al all having had superb careers without having played the game at any kind of level, it's perhaps worth considering who we should be looking at.

Anyway, here's the article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/may/24/great-european-cup-teams-milan

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Super article on the Guardian about the great Sacchi led Milan team. Particularly interesting is the bit about Sacchi never having played the game professionally, yet he went on to become one of the great coaches.

With the likes of Sven, Mourinho, Villas Boas, Wenger, Houllier, Carlos Alberto Parreira et al all having had superb careers without having played the game at any kind of level, it's perhaps worth considering who we should be looking at.

Anyway, here's the article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/may/24/great-european-cup-teams-milan

Interesting series. Find it strange that they only talk about the Sachhi team in 89 and 90. they were in the final in 93, 94 and 95 with a similar system.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

And arguably the Capello team of '94 was better. Their destruction of Barca in the final was an incredible performance.

 

[Julian Carax]

But Sachhi was more of visionary, love this quote from him:

At Milan, Arrigo Sacchi got fed up of players moaning about his obsession with team shape, and so proved its worth with a simple drill.

"I convinced [Ruud] Gullit and [Marco] Van Basten by telling them that five organised players would beat 10 disorganised ones," he said. "And I proved it to them. I took five players: Giovanni Galli in goal, [Mauro] Tassotti, [Paolo] Maldini, [Alesandro] Costacurta and [Franco] Baresi. They had 10 players: Gullit, Van Basten, [Frank] Rijkaard, [Pietro Paolo] Virdis, [Alberigo] Evani, [Carlo] Ancelotti, [Angelo] Colombo, [Roberto] Donadoni, [Christian] Lantignotti and [Graziano] Mannari. They had 15 minutes to score against my five players, the only rule was that if we won possession or they lost the ball, they had to start over from 10 metres inside their own half. I did this all the time and they never scored. Not once."

 

[Housequake]

Going to Milan to learn about footy would be f*cking boss.

 

[Big Neville Southall]

Super article on the Guardian about the great Sacchi led Milan team. Particularly interesting is the bit about Sacchi never having played the game professionally, yet he went on to become one of the great coaches.

With the likes of Sven, Mourinho, Villas Boas, Wenger, Houllier, Carlos Alberto Parreira et al all having had superb careers without having played the game at any kind of level, it's perhaps worth considering who we should be looking at.

Anyway, here's the article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/may/24/great-european-cup-teams-milan

Sven was a full back in the Sewdish top division wasn't he?

It is good though that a non football player can reach the top though. Who knows the next Everton manager could be a poster on this forum!

 

[mawders]

Italian footy in the 90's was immense. I used to love watching the saturday morning show and then the live game on sunday on Ch4. It compensated for us being utter gash apart from 18 months under Royle

 

[manxtoffee]

And arguably the Capello team of '94 was better. Their destruction of Barca in the final was an incredible performance.

Good as Capello's side was they didn't retain it, hence the general consensus that Sacchi's side were superior to Capello's.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's interesting to see how the game has changed since then. It's impossible to imagine a Romanian side being any good these days, but back then the Bucharest side were very impressive and arguably favourites against Milan.

Quite possible that we'll never see that happen again.

 

[Julian Carax]

It's interesting to see how the game has changed since then. It's impossible to imagine a Romanian side being any good these days, but back then the Bucharest side were very impressive and arguably favourites against Milan.

Quite possible that we'll never see that happen again.

Probably not. Changing the format in the 92-93 season has improved the quality of the competion as it has allowed more high quality teams to compete, to win it now you have to beat several top teams. Not just allowing the Champions from each country has made it almost impossible for champions from smaller leagues to win and devalued their leagues.

For the next few seasons only Bayern, Real, Barca, Chelsea and possibily the two Manchester clubs have any real chance of winning it.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Probably not. Changing the format in the 92-93 season has improved the quality of the competion as it has allowed more high quality teams to compete, to win it now you have to beat several top teams. Not just allowing the Champions from each country has made it almost impossible for champions from smaller leagues to win and devalued their leagues.

For the next few seasons only Bayern, Real, Barca, Chelsea and possibily the two Manchester clubs have any real chance of winning it.

The talent seems that much more concentrated. The great Red Star team for instance would never have been allowed to get that good before other teams bought their best players. Ditto the wonderful Ajax team of the mid 90's, or the Steaua team of Hagi in the late 80's.

Suppose the CL is no different to most domestic leagues. The same teams compete for domestic honours in Germany, Spain and England as well. All a bit boring.