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Alessandro Costacurta: ‘San Siro is an icon – it’s incredibly beautiful but it’s not functional’

Milan’s grand old home turns 100 this weekend, and while it will soon be torn down one of the greatest players to grace it reflects on the noise and power of a unique stadium

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Franco Baresi, the immaculate defender who defined a legendary era of Italian football

The AC Milan legend, who has passed away at the age of 66, was a one-club man who changed the game and brought a touch of class to the meanest defences

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‘You walked down the tunnel and saw Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta and Gianfranco Zola. You asked yourself “Have we got a chance?”’ Terry Phelan on Ireland’s World Cup 94 upset

The former Manchester City defender was a part of Jack Charlton’s USA 94 squad

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‘Milan didn’t collapse against Liverpool in Istanbul. We lost focus for six minutes – for the other 114, we played an extraordinary, beautiful game’: AC legend claims they were 'extraordinary' against Reds in 2005 Champions League final

AC Milan bottled a three-goal lead against Liverpool in the 2005 Champions League, but one of their players has rubbished ideas of a collapse

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‘I was annoyed when Zlatan broke my record as Serie A’s oldest goalscorer – I wanted to remain in Milan’s history and he took that from me’: Italy legend bitter about Ibrahimovic scoring aged 41 and five months

Zlatan Ibrahimovic annoyed an AC Milan legend after he broke the oldest goalscoring record

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32 best Serie A players of the 90s

Italy and Serie A was the playground for many of the world's best players in the 1990s

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Uncapped wonders: snubbed players with multiple European Cup medals

Plus: more players putting the extra ‘and’ into ‘club and country’, games with all-headed goals and more

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The best Serie A players of the 00s

Ranking the Italian top flight's standout stars from the first decade of the 21st century

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The best Italy players ever

Four-time World Cup winners and twice European champions, the Azzurri have been blessed with some wonderful talents. Here, a look at their finest footballers...

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The best defenders of the 80s

Counting down the finest centre-backs, full-backs, wing-backs and sweepers of the 80s

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The Milan derby crowns Serie A’s return - here is why it means so much more

Milan hope to feel the ‘magic’ once more when they face their eternal rivals Inter in the Champions League semi-finals

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AC Milan are back – but not as you remember them

For years, the term ‘Galactico’ felt as applicable to Milan than Real Madrid – but those days are gone. Instead, astute business has offered a road back to the Champions League semi-finals

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Not them again! Footballers who are bogey players for one particular club

Plus: stalwart teammates with 500 appearances for the same club, record starts to the season and more

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