1997–98 A.C. Milan season - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

A.C. Milan
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan , is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, that plays in the Serie A. Milan was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others...

had a second consecutive disastrous season. Fabio Capello

Fabio Capello

Fabio Capello is an Italian football manager and former player. He is the manager of the England national football team.Capello has the distinction of winning the domestic league title with every club he has coached throughout his career...

returned as coach, following the dismal second half of the 1996–97 league campaign, but failed to turn the corner, and Milan was a shadow of the team he had left the year before. With Capello's reputation seemingly ruined, he was sacked at the end of the season, with Milan finishing a mere 10th in the league.

Defenders

Paolo Maldini

Paolo Cesare Maldini is an Italian former footballer who played as a left or central defender. He spent all 25 seasons of his career at Serie A club Milan, before retiring at the age of 41 in 2009, becoming a symbol and a legend of the club...

Alessandro Costacurta

Alessandro "Billy" Costacurta is an Italian former professional football defender turned manager.Costacurta spent some twenty years at Milan, with a brief period spent in AC Monza on loan. He is best known for his role alongside Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini and Mauro Tassotti, forming one of the...

Marcel Desailly

Marcel Desailly is a retired Ghanaian born French footballer and star of the France national football team squad, with whom he won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000...

André Cruz Giuseppe Cardone

Giuseppe Cardone

Giuseppe Cardone is a retired Italian professional footballer who played more than 300 games in the defender position for a number of clubs in Italian football....

Daniele Daino

Daniele Daino is an Italian football player who is currently contracted with Serie B club Gallipoli Calcio....

Dario Smoje

Dario Smoje is a Croatian footballer, who is currently in Hrvatski Dragovoljac, after being released by Panionios in January 2010.- Career :...

Steinar Nilsen

Steinar Nilsen is a Norwegian football manager. He also had a long active playing career behind him, mainly as a defender, before he retired in 2004.-Career:Nilsen played for Tromsø IL between 1989 and 1997, before he was sold to AC Milan...

Samir Beloufa

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Winston Bogarde

Winston Bogarde is a retired Dutch professional footballer.A player of immense physical strength, he played mostly as a central defender, although he could occasionally appear on the left, and was best known for his spells at Ajax, FC Barcelona and Chelsea.With the latter side, he garnered...

Midfielders

Demetrio Albertini

Demetrio Albertini is a former professional Italian football midfielder who spent most of his career with AC Milan of the Italian Serie A, winning five Serie A titles and three UEFA Champions League titles with that club...

Dejan Savićević

Dejan Savicevic

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Ibrahim Ba

Ibrahim "Ibou" Ba is a Senegalese-born professional French football player of the 1990s and 2000s whose career as a right midfielder lasted from 1991 to 2008...

Christian Ziege

Christian Ziege is a former German football defender and midfielder. With the German national team, Ziege won Euro 96. An attacking left wingback, Ziege was considered a dead-ball specialist.-Club career:...

Giampiero Maini

Giampiero Maini is a retired Italian professional football player.-External links:*...

Zvonimir Boban

Zvonimir Boban is a Croatian former football midfielder who played most of his professional career for Serie A club Milan, with whom he won four Serie A titles and the Champions League. He was a member of the Croatia national team which attained third place at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, with Boban...

Leonardo Roberto Donadoni

Roberto Donadoni

Roberto Donadoni is an Italian football manager and former player, last in charge of Serie A club Cagliari.An attacking midfielder or winger known for pace and technique, he was a pillar of the powerhouse AC Milan teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s and one of the pioneers of Major League...

Edgar Davids

Edgar Steven Davids is a retired Dutch footballer and current member of the supervisory board of Ajax. After beginning his career with the Amsterdam club, he subsequently played in Italy for Milan and Juventus before a loan spell with Barcelona. He went on to play for Internazionale and Tottenham...

Attackers

Patrick Kluivert

Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a former Dutch footballer, currently head coach of the youth side of FC Twente. He played as a striker for AFC Ajax, A.C. Milan, FC Barcelona, Newcastle United, Valencia CF, PSV Eindhoven, and Lille OSC. Kluivert played for the Dutch national team from 1994 to 2004. He...

George Weah

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Maurizio Ganz

Maurizio Ganz is a former Italian football striker.-Club career:Ganz started his career at Sampdoria in 1985. He later helped Parma to promotion from Serie B in 1989-90 season. When he played for Inter Milan, Ganz scored 36 goals from 68 appearances and was a feared goalscorer.Ganz moved to AC...

Filippo Maniero

Filippo "Pippo" Maniero is an Italian retired football player. He played for several teams as a striker, most notably AC Milan, Parma, Palermo and Torino....

Andreas Andersson

Andreas Claes Andersson is a Swedish footballer. He retired in 2005, but has started playing for lower league side FC Andrea Doria in Sweden. He was capped 42 times and scored 8 goals for Sweden, and he played at the 2002 FIFA World Cup...

Matches

Top Scorers

George Weah

10 Patrick Kluivert

Patrick Kluivert

6 Maurizio Ganz

Maurizio Ganz

4 Filippo Maniero

Filippo Maniero

Filippo "Pippo" Maniero is an Italian retired football player. He played for several teams as a striker, most notably AC Milan, Parma, Palermo and Torino....

3 Leonardo

Leonardo Araújo

Leonardo Nascimento de Araújo, known as Leonardo , is a football manager and a former midfielder. He is currently active as director of football of French club Paris Saint-Germain....

Sources

| RSSSF - Italy 1997/98

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