When Chelsea scored their second against Arsenal on Sunday, I squealed with excitement and
jumped so high that I almost stuck my hand in the ceiling fan. Unadulterated delight. After such a
feverish encounter, my eyes were blood shot and teary. Delight, but equally, conjunctivitis.
Try as he might, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has a long way to go before he can even come
close to carrying the bags of Silvio Berlusconi.
AC Milan's owner and president has been at the forefront of European and Italian club soccer for
more than two decades, winning 5 European Cups during that period.
Video games are no mirror of the real world, especially football games that allow old, weezy
washups like us to win championships and gold boot awards. But real life, like video games, gets
boring when accelerated to, in the words of Rick Moranis in Spaceballs, "ludicrous speed."
In this interesting piece about the evolution of football tactics and television broadcast's effect
thereupon Jonathan Wilson doesn't make this same video game analogy.
Franco Baresi is one of the first names to come to anybody's mind when you mention the Libero
(or sweeper) position, simply because he was the on-field general and symbol of Arrigo Sacchi's
great Milan side in the late 1980s; a side that arguably boasted one of the greatest defences of
all time.
As Inter Milan stroll to yet another Serie A title, COS contributor Mark McAllister looks at an
Italian legend who 'The Special One' has clearly learnt a lot from.
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Franco Baresi is one of the first names to come to anybody's mind when you mention the Libero
(or sweeper) position, simply because he was the on-field general and symbol of Arrigo Sacchi's
great Milan side in the late 1980s; a side that arguably boasted one of the greatest defences of
all time.
From Arrigo Sacchi's withdrawal of a legend to Bobby Robson's match-winning switch, here are half a
dozen inspired changes.
Every football fan remembers their first childhood hero. The reason they fell in love with the
beautiful game and quiet often the main factor that determined what football club they began to
support. That player for yours truly, was Roberto Baggio and with the return to Calcio this week
of ‘Il Divin Codino' the feelings of both nostalgia and hope entered my mind.
Cuando Arrigo Sacchi dijo alguna vez "El fútbol es la cosa más importante
de las cosas menos importantes" describía un axioma que el hombre a veces en su aspiración
de sacar traumas, miedos, tristezas y/o frustraciones, olvida. El fútbol es una fiesta de
90 minutos en la que las rivalidades no deben rebasar la hermandad de un pueblo que en su afán de
reconstrucción, busca motivos para festejar.
"El Milán de Sacchi cambió para siempre el fútbol con una nueva forma de
defender"
La frase es de Emilio Butragueño, que sufrió en sus carnes una forma
colectiva perfecta de defender.
El Milán de Arrigo Sacchi fue el mejor equipo del mundo desde 1989 hasta 1995,
ya bajo la dirección de Fabio Capello.
