Franco Baresi (Captain of Milan 1982-1997), Alessandro Costacurta (25 trophies with Milan, including 5 European Cups/Champions League and 2 intercontinental ones), Filippo Galli (at Milan from 1981 to 1996. With the Rossoneri, in thirteen seasons, he won 5 championships, 3 European Cups, 2 Intercontinental Cups, 3 European Super Cups, 4 Italian Super Cups), Paolo Maldini (27 trophies won in his career with Milan, footballer of the year for World Soccer in 1994), Mauro Tassotti (Captain of Milan on 18 May ’94). These five names are more than enough to identify not only a single department, the defense, but a team that made the history of Italian football: AC Milan in 1994.
Fabio Capello was on the bench. That team was made up of great champions who had grown together since the youth team, and had already won together, but they wanted to surpass themselves and win again. It was born from their voices and those of the genius Dejan Savicevic (8 trophies with Milan in 6 years, 1992-1998), Fabio Capello (4 trophies with Milan in ’94), Adriano Galliani (29 trophies in 31 years with Milan ) and many reporters of the time the story of that team and the tortuous and triumphal ride of which they were protagonists between 1993 and 1994.
It arrives from Tuesday 7 May Milan 1994, more than a team, a unique event broadcast on Sky, streaming on NOW and also available on demand. The new production in two episodes of one hour each – both broadcast on Sky Sport Calcio, the first episode at 7pm on Tuesday 7 May, the second episode at 2.30pm on Saturday 18 May – tells all the stages of a winning football season and controversial, marked by the descent into the political field of the president of Milan, Silvio Berlusconi, and by the first triumph in the Champions League for the coach Fabio Capello.
Milan 1994 – More than a team, it is a work of journalistic reconstruction, fed by archive material from Telepiù and Sky Sport, recovered and restored, to retrace that football year suspended between sport and politics, culminating with the Rossoneri’s triumph in the Champions League on 18 May 1994, on the same night in which confidence in Berlusconi was confirmed in the Senate. The voice of a famous AC Milan fan, DJ Ringo, rekindles the memory of the 1994 final in the mind of Alessandro Costacurta who, together with the captain and leader of that exceptional defence, Franco Baresi, was excluded from the match against Barcelona.
From Aldo Biscardi and Maurizio Mosca to the very young Giorgio Porrà and Fabio Caressa, there are many contributions that have allowed us to faithfully reconstruct the Rossoneri’s journey in the 1993/94 season, starting from the defeat in the Champions League final in May 1993, against Olympique Marseille. Then the scandal that led to the disqualification of the French, the surprise transfer with the arrival of Desailly, thanks to Galliani’s reckless operation, the Savicevic case; the double defeat in the cups, the 14th championship, the double disqualification of Costacurta and Baresi and the provocations of Johann Cruyff on the eve of the final. All this was marked by political events that were literally overturning the scenario of the country.
The narration continues with the over thirty repertoire voices of the protagonists of the time (including footballers, journalists, politicians, entertainers) and the current testimonies of Fausto Bertinotti (Secretary of the Communist Refoundation in ’94), Paolo Mieli (in ’94 94 director of Corriere della Sera), Santi Nolla (director of Mundo Deportivo), Licia Granello (in ’94 journalist for La Repubblica), Paolo Condò (in ’94 journalist for La Gazzetta dello Sport), Alberto Costa (in ’94 journalist of the Corriere della Sera), Carlo Pellegatti (in ’94 journalist for the Fininvest networks), Luca Serafini (in ’94 journalist for TELE+), Gianni Visnadi (in ’94 journalist for Tuttosport) and former opponents Lorenzo Minotti (winner of the Super Cup ’93 with Parma) and Hristo Stoichkov (striker of Cruijff’s Barcelona, Champions League finalist in 1994).
Furthermore, it is available on demand on Sky and NOW Waiting for Milan 1994: Billy&Diego: a fun preview with a special chat about cinema, football passion and politics, between Alessandro “Billy” Costacurta and a super fan who witnessed those years: Diego Abatantuono.
