1998–99 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...

returned to its previous glorious ways under the guidance of new coach Alberto Zaccheroni. The highly rated coach, hired from Udinese

Udinese Calcio

Udinese Calcio is an Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and currently plays in the Serie A. Founded in 1896, Udinese is the second oldest club in the Serie A, after Genoa....

, brought lethal striker Oliver Bierhoff

Oliver Bierhoff

Oliver Bierhoff is a retired German former football striker, who scored the first golden goal in the history of major international football, for Germany in the Euro 96 final...

and the defensive right-winger Thomas Helveg

Thomas Helveg

Thomas Lund Helveg is a former Danish professional Association football player who played as a defensive midfielder and defender for Odense Boldklub in the Danish Superliga, with whom he won the 1989 Danish championship...

with him. He introduced Milan to his unorthodox 3-4-3 formation, in which Bierhoff was a perfect center forward, scoring 20 goals in the league.

Milan had a marvelous second half of the season, in which it kept pace with Serie A championship leaders Lazio

S.S. Lazio

Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...

, then passing the Romans when they had a couple of slips. In the end, a win in the final round was more than enough to clinch Milan's first league title for three years.

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...

Roberto Ayala

Roberto Fabián Ayala , nicknamed el Ratón , is a former Argentine football centre back.Regarded as one of the best central defenders of his generation, Ayala captained the Argentine national team for more matches than anyone else...

Francesco Coco

Francesco Coco is a retired Italian football defender.-Club:Coco spent the majority of his club career with the Milan clubs; first with A.C. Milan between 1993 and 2002 and later with F.C. Internazionale between 2002 and 2007. He also had several loan spells with Vicenza Calcio, Torino F.C. and...

Bruno N'Gotty

Bruno N'Gotty is a French football player of Cameroonian ancestry who last played for English club Leicester City. Initially a player at his home team Olympique Lyonnais, he later played for Paris Saint-Germain, A.C...

Luigi Sala

Luigi Sala is an Italian football defender. He is a central defender.In June 2001, Sala was sold to Atalanta for 7 billion lire, along with Gianni Comandini and Luca Saudati , as part of Cristian Zenoni and Massimo Donati's deal to Milan, for 60 billion Italian lire.In 2002-03 season, he was the...

Samir Beloufa

Samir Beloufa is a French-Algerian football player for the Swedish side Helsingborgs IF of the top Allsvenskan league. He transferred to Helsingborg from the Belgium club Westerlo in March 2007. He also played with Mouscron and Germinal Beerschot in Belgium...

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....

Midfielders

Thomas Helveg

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

Leonardo Federico Giunti

Federico Giunti

Federico Giunti is an Italian former footballer turned manager. He is the current head coach of Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Foligno.-Club career:...

Massimo Ambrosini

Massimo Ambrosini is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder and is the captain of Serie A club Milan. He is well known for his aerial ability and tackling.- Club career :...

Guly

Andrés Guglielminpietro

Andrés Guglielminpietro , nicknamed Guly, is a former Argentine football player. A midfielder, he has been capped for the Argentina national football team, and represented his country at the Copa América 1999.His career reached its peak at the Italian club A.C...

Domenico Morfeo

Domenico Morfeo is a retired Italian football player, who played in the position of attacking midfielder or striker.-Career:...

Giampiero Maini

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

Attackers

George Weah

George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah is a Liberian humanitarian and politician, and an ex-footballer. He ran unsuccessfully for president in the 2005 election, losing to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the second round of voting...

Oliver Bierhoff

Oliver Bierhoff is a retired German former football striker, who scored the first golden goal in the history of major international football, for Germany in the Euro 96 final...

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...

Alessandro Iannuzzi Mohammed Aliyu Datti

Mohammed Aliyu Datti

Mohammed Aliyu Datti is a Nigerian football player, he currently plays for Dessel Sport.- Career :He joined in summer 2008 from Belgium club R.A.E.C. Mons back to Nigeria and signed with Niger Tornadoes F.C.....

Matches

Topscorers

Oliver Bierhoff

Oliver Bierhoff is a retired German former football striker, who scored the first golden goal in the history of major international football, for Germany in the Euro 96 final...

20 Leonardo 10 George Weah

George Weah

8 Maurizio Ganz

Maurizio Ganz

4 Guly

Andrés Guglielminpietro

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