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Profile : Carlo Ancelotti


Carlo Ancelotti

Born: June 10, 1959
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Birthplace: Reggiolo, Italy
Previous Clubs: Reggiana; Parma; Juventus; Milan
Honours: Intertoto Cup: 1999; Coppa Italia: 2003; Serie A: 2004; Italian Supercup: 2004; UEFA Champions League: 2003, 2007; UEFA Super Cup: 2003, 2007; FIFA Club World Cup: 2007


Spending his entire coaching career in Italy, Ancelotti is one of the most successful and well-respected in the business.

Carlo Ancelotti: The Milan coach is a stalwart of Serie A.

Ancelott, who made over 100 appearance for the Rossoneri as a player, has guided AC Milan to numerous titles, including two Champions League trophies and the prestigious Scudetto establishing himself as a hugely popular figure at the San Siro.

He began his club career with Parma in 1976, but spent just three years there before Roma snapped him up. A tough midfielder, Ancelotti captained Roma to the title in 1983 and also helped the side win the Italian Cup on four occasions.

In 1987, he joined Milan, where he became part of the legendary squad that won consecutive European Cups in 1989 and 1990.

Alongside the likes of Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta in defence, Frank Rijkaard and Roberto Donadoni in midfield and Marco van Basten in attack, Ancelotti finished his career on a high and won the Scudetto in 1991-92.

His first coaching job came in 1995 with Serie B squad A.C. Reggiana. He spent just a year with the club, and won them promotion, before moving back to Parma, this time as boss.

Cutting his teeth with the likes of a young Gianluigi Buffon under his care, the Italian did well and proved himself worthy of managing one of the larger Italian sides. Juventus came calling in 1999 and he became the successor of Marcello Lippi at the Old Lady.

Although he did not win a trophy during his two-year stint, twice finishing as runner-up in Serie A, he continued to show his credentials and was hired as a replacement for the sacked Fatih Terim at AC Milan in 2001.

The Rossoneri had been on a trophy-less run themselves, but Ancelotti set them on the right track in his first season leading them to the semi-finals of the 2001-02 UEFA Cup.

His defensive style had drawn criticism from club president Silvio Berlusconi, but he soon changed that and turned Andrea Pirlo into a playmaker, while also reigniting the partnership of Filippo Inzaghi and Andriy Shevchenko.

2003 saw the side travel all the way to the Champions League final in Manchester and beat Juventus on penalties to claim the trophy. They had also picked up the Coppa Italia prize, but the masterstroke of signing Brazilian midfielder Kaka from Sao Paulo the following summer ensured it wouldn't be the end of the success.

In 2003-04, Milan won their first league title since 1999 and finished runners-up behind Juventus in 2004-05 and 2005-06 (although both Scudetti were later wiped from the record books due to Juventus' involvement in the Calciopoli scandal) for the next seasons.

The signing of Kaka for just €8.5m proved to be one of the best ever, but Ancelotti's greatest achievement, however, was picking the club up from their disappointment in the 2005 Champions League final. Leading 3-0 at half time, Milan crumbled and lost on penalties to Liverpool; but returned to face the English side two years later in Athens, winning 2-1.

It was Ancelotti's second Champions League trophy as Milan coach and his fourth title overall, having also won it twice as a player in 1989 and 1990 and he became only the fifth coach in history to achieve this feat.

Continuing to impress with his strong style of man-management, Ancelotti struggled to recreate his success in the subsequent years, but still signed a two-year contract extension, keeping him at Milan until 2010.

Chelsea have been constantly linked with a move for the Italian, but with the manager having expressed an interest in coaching the Italian national team, Serie A's longest serving manager (and Milan's second) will certainly not be short of offers when he does decide to leave the San Siro.

Milanisti Basic Knowledge - Fossa Dei leoni



Milanisti harus tau tentang Fossa Dei Leoni..

The Fossa dei Leoni (FdL) was an Italian association of ultras football supporters of A.C. Milan founded in 1968. It was the first ultras group born into Italy.

The association was born originally as a group when a group of young supporters started to meet on the ramp 18 of popular sectors of San Siro stadium, in Milan, wearing the uniform of A.C. Milan and taking to the stadium flags and confetti. The name was chosen due to the nickname of old AC Milan's stadium.

In 1972 the moved from the ramp 18 to the middle sector of the stadium. In the same year was created the hymn, inspirated to the Italian movie "L'armata Brancaleone". In that period many Italian ultras groups going identifying themselves in different political ideas and the Fossa identified itself on to left wing, taking always at the stadiums a big banner with a picture of Che Guevara. Due to some order problems with Italian police, from 1975 to 1977 it changed its name in "Inferno Rossonero" (Red-Black Hell).

In the years the Fossa became a model for lot of Italian ultras groups and in 1982 it was cited in the italian movie "Eccezzziunale... veramente". In that movie the starring, Diego Abatantuono, played the role of the group's leader, named "Donato, the ras of the Fossa".

The association, after 37 years of activity, was offically dissolved in the date of 17 November 2005 by its members due to some polemics about two robbed banners after the match Milan-Juventus of 29 October 2005. During an internal conflict between Milan's supporters the Fossa dei Leoni was accused to collaborate with DIGOS [1] (unacceptable for ultras ideals) to obtain the restituion of the banners and some members of it was threated and attacked. At the end of that conflict the leaders of the group dediced to close the experience dissolving it [2].

Other reasons of this conflict are to search in the relationships of the group with two other historical ultras groups of A.C. Milan, Brigate Rossonere and Commandos Tigre, due to its political differences and to a struggle for leadership between Milan's supporters [3][4]. After various hypothesis to recreate the group, one month later (31 December 2005), it was founded the group "Guerrieri Ultras Curva Sud Milano" composed by lot of former members of the Fossa dei Leoni.

The hymn of the Fossa, based on to the musical theme of italian movie "L'armata Brancaleone" (1966), has got these words:
"Leoni armati stiam marciando siam la Fossa dei Leon...dei leon.. leon.. leon... leon... leon... siam la Fossa dei Leon! Sangue! Violenza! Fossa dei Leoni !"

Rivalries and friendships of Fossa dei Leoni with other groups are the same of the entire sector of A.C. Milan's supporters.
The principal and the oldest rivalry is againist supporters of Inter, the other football club in the city of Milan. Other main rivalries are againist supporters of Roma (twinned since early 1980's), S.S.C. Napoli (twinned since early 1980's), Juventus, Lazio, Genoa, Verona, Atalanta, Fiorentina, Sampdoria and Cagliari.
Friendship relations of the group are with few supporters groups. The only twinnage is with the ultras of Brescia.

AC Milan Squad


Goalkeeper

Dida
Birth date: 10/7/1973

Abbiati Christian
Birth date: 7/8/1977

Kalac Zeljko
Birth date: 12/16/1972

Storari Marco
Birth date: 1/7/1977

Defenders

Zambrotta Gianluca
Birth date: 2/19/1977

Favalli Giuseppe

Oddo Massimo
Birth date: 6/14/1976

Silva Thiago
Birth date: 9/22/1984

Onyewu Oguchi
Birth date: 5/13/1982

Antonini Luca
Birth date: 8/4/1982

Jankulovski Marek
Birth date: 5/9/1977

Kaladze Kakha
Birth date: 2/27/1978

Bonera Daniele
Birth date: 5/31/1981

Nesta Alessandro
Birth date: 3/19/1976

Midfielders
Abate Ignazio
Birth date: 11/12/1986

Ambrosini Massimo
Birth date: 5/29/1977

Gattuso Gennaro Ivan
Birth date: 1/9/1978

Pirlo Andrea
Birth date: 5/19/1979

Seedorf Clarence
Birth date: 4/1/1976

Flamini Mathieu
Birth date: 3/7/1984

Cardacio Mathias
Birth date: 10/2/1987

Forwards
Viudez Tabaré
Birth date: 9/8/1989

Di Gennaro Davide
Birth date: 6/16/1988

Pato
Birth date: 9/2/1989

Borriello Marco
Birth date: 6/18/1982

Inzaghi Filippo
Birth date: 8/9/1973

Ronaldinho
Birth date: 3/21/1980

AC milan Hall OF Fame


There are a lot of champions with a lead role in the rossoneri past. Starting with the legendary Gre-No-Li (the Swedish threesome formed by Gren-Nordhal-Liedholm) to the more recent Baresi and Tassotti, through the careers of Van Basten, Gullit and Rijkaard. Have fun to discover the rossoneri champions profiles from the past, learn all about their professional stages and their careers in A.C. Milan.
Yours Say !
Do you know a famous player who didn’t have a place in our gallery yet ? Do you want to leave us your personal memory about a great rossonero champion from the past ? Write here: we have already listen to a lot of requests and we have enrich the Hall of Fame, don’t miss the opportunity to say yours and maybe your voice could find space in our special release !

The Hall of Fame

* Demetrio Albertini
* José Altafini
* Roberto Baggio
* Franco Baresi
* Oliver Bierhoff
* Zvonimir Boban
* Ruben Buriani
* Cafu
* Fabio Capello
* Alessandro Costacurta
* Fabio Cudicini
* Marcel Desailly
* Roberto Donadoni
* Alberigo Evani
* Filippo Galli
* Giovanni Galli

Demetrio Albertini, class 1971, is a product of the rossonero youth sector. Trait d’union between the Sacchi’s A.C. Milan and the Capello ones. Demetrio debuted at the age of 17 during the season 1988/89 and gained a lead role with Mr. Capello in 1991/92, season in which he won the League Title. Director and mainstay of the midfield, Albertini has had a great insight into the game: his feet dictated always the times and ways of the line of attack, this is the reason why everyone call him the “Metronome”. Other than shines for his technical qualities he is famous for his fair-play on the pitch. With the rossoneri he have won five League Titles, two UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Supercus, a European(South American Cups and three League Supercups.

In Brazil he was called Mazzola for his great resemblance with Valentino Mazzola of the great Tourin. José Altafini arrives at the A.C. Milan when he was only twenty years old but with an important title already won with his own national team: World Cup of the 1958 in Sweden. A forward with an extraordinary potential, Altafini win a League Title, with the A.C. Milan jersey, in the season 1958/59, he scored 28 goals during 32 matches. He’ll win a second one, in the 1961/62, thanks to that the rossoneri will be able to play and win (the first Italian team) the UEFA Champions League in the 1963. During the historical final of Wembley, against the Benfica of Mr. Eusebio, José was the protagonist with his two goals that allow A.C. Milan to win 2-1. He left the rossonera jersey in the 1965 in order to wear the Naple’s colours.

Considered as one of the greatest Italian players ever, Roberto Baggio grow up in the youths of Caldogno, his hometown team. His professional career starts early thanks to his great skills that will bring him to wear, at the age of fifteen, the Vicenza jersey. After two great seasons, where he shows his talent, Baggio is bought by Fiorentina FC in the 1985. His first year with the violet jersey is not easy due to a serious injury who will bring him to postpone, on September 21th 1986, his debut in Serie A during the match Fiorentina – Sampdoria 2-0. Since that day Baggio has been enchanting everyone with his imagination, his technical skills and his talent, becoming a landmark for the Fiorentina FC. In the 1990 he became a Juventus FC player . With the bianconeri he won a League Title, an Italian Cup and a UEFA Cup, but most of all the Golden Ball in the 1993. During summer 1995 Roberto Baggio is bought by A.C. Milan with another champion of international fame, George Weah. Under the guidance of Mr. Fabio Capello, Baggio won a League Title collecting 28 appearances and scoring 7 goals. The second season in rossonero is not positive like the first one. The A.C. Milan doesn’t shine at the San Siro stadium. Baggio leaves the rossoneri but the love and the respect towards him are the same of the past two years with the rossonera jersey.

In the history of the Italian football a few players can be considered a real standard bearer for their teams but Franco Baresi is surely one of that for A.C. Milan. His debut with the rossoneri was during the season 1977/78; a year later, at the age of eighteen, he won his first League Title, the unforgettable one due to the star. He stays with the A.C. Milan in spite of the problems of the Club, during the earlier 80’s. In the Berlusconi’s era with the arrival of Mr. Arrigo Sacchi, Baresi will become the strongest sweeper in the world, the leader and the captain of the team called “The Invincible”, that doesn’t know opponents, between the end of the 80’s and the early 90’s. Baresi leads an insuperable defence with Paolo Maldini, Billy Costacurta and Mauro Tassotti. He won five other League Titles and most of all three UEFA Champions League and two European/South American Cups. Sweeper with offensive tendencies, Baresi has played 719 official matches with the rossonera jersey. He left the football on October 1997; A.C. Milan took off in his honour the jersey number 6, the one he wore and that saw so many successes.

Arrived in Italy in the 1991 after five seasons played in the German League and one in the Austrian League, Bierhoff debuts in Serie A with the Ascoli FC jersey on September 1st 1991. After a start not so exciting, the German forward shows his talent in the next championships and became a player in the Serie A again, this time with the Udinese FC jersey. In Friuli Bierhoff became one of the most prolific forwards in Europe gaining the national convocation with the German team. In the summer 1998 there’s the passage at the A.C. Milan after an extraordinary season with the Udinese FC jersey in which he scored 27 goals gaining the title of top-goalscorer and reaching the third place in the table with the friulana lineup. He is a well-endowed player and he has a great talent with the headers, the German forward, after his first rossonera season, is one of the protagonists in the Lazio chasing that brought the victory of the 16° Title League in the A.C. Milan history. After two seasons with the rossoneri he became a Monaco FC player, on January 2002, before his last season in Serie A with the Chievo Verona FC where he left the football at the age of 35.

The Croatian Zvonimir Boban arrived at the A.C. Milan in the season 1992/93 and he became a protagonist of the rossonere victories during the 90’s. His great technical skills, his good insight into the game and his great tactical malleability bring him to cover different roles in the midfield, from the wing to behind the forwards depending on the different game plans choosing by the various coaches which he played with. Among the victories he got in his career, there’s the League Title won in the season 1998/99 with Zaccheroni as a coach of A.C. Milan; Boban played a principal role guiding the great rossoneri chasing of Lazio FC. He won four League Titles, three Italian Supercups, a UEFA Champions League and a European Supercup.

Grown up in the AS Portuense, an amateurish team of his hometown, Ruben Buriani joined the Spal youths, where Paolo Mazza made him a professional player. After three seasons with Monza FC, in the 1977 he became an A.C. Milan player and with the rossonera jersey he won a League Title in the 1979. Buriani stays with A.C. Milan even during the difficult years of the relegation in Serie B. In the meantime he found a place in the national team where he debuted on February 16th 1980 on the occasion of the match against the Romania, playing for ten minutes with the azzurra jersey. He had up for the European in the 1980, even if he won’t collect other appearances with the azzurra jersey again. After the second relegation of A.C. Milan in the 1982, he became a player of A.C. Cesena. In the 1984 he played a season with the AS Roma with which he collected 24 appearances. Buriani’s last season in Serie A was with the Napoli’s jersey in the 1985. A bad injury occurred and made him to leave football at high levels.

Marcos Cafu joined the rossoneri in the 2003/2004 season and he has been staying for five seasons. Called: “The Pendolino” for his speed on the wing, Cafu is considered one of the greatest right backs in the world. When he arrived at the A.C. Milan he was an expert player already manu trophies gained (among which a World Cup as the Seleção captain in the 2002) and he was an experienced player of the Italian football, thanks to his career in the AS Roma which with he won a League Title. Cafu, who debuts in Serie A with A.C. Milan on September 1st 2003 during the match Ancona-Milan 0-2, became a landmark for the rossonera defence thanks to that he played 28 times during the championship. During his first season with A.C. Milan he won a UEFA Supercup and a League Title. The following years are full of success for the Brazilian defender: UEFA Champions League (the only trophy he hadn’t yet in his palmarès), another UEFA Supercup, the FIFA Club World Cup and an Italian Supercup. 166 total appearances with the rossonera jersey and 4 goals scored by “The Pendolino”.

The football career of Fabio Capello starts in the 1964 when, at the age of 18, he debuts with the SPAL. In the 1967 he was bought by AS Roma, where he won his first title, the Italian Cup. After his move to Juventus FC he wins three League Titles and he becomes a regular presence in the National team in the ’70s. In the 1976 he left Juventus FC to join A.C. Milan where he will finish his career as a player winning an Italian Cup and a League Title in 1980. Capello starts his new career as a coach training the rossonero youth department. He debuted on the bench of the A.C. Milan first team during the season 1986/87, when he is called to replace Liedholm in his last days. Capello returned the trust of the new president Silvio Berlusconi bringing the rossoneri in the UEFA Cup thanks to the successful playoff against the Sampdoria. During the season 1991/92 he was the A.C. Milan coach again, he tries to inherit at his best Arrigo Sacchi. Fabio Capello obtains a series of successful results overcoming, at least in Italy, his precursor. He wins three consecutive League Titles and his A.C. Milan is called “The unbeatable ones”, playing 58 matches in a row, more than a tournament and a half, without a loss. In the 1994 he wins a UEFA Champions League, beating, 4-0 in the Final, the Barcelona of Crujiff, and during the season 1995/96 he wins his fourth League Title. As it happened to Arrigo Sacchi he also comes back to training the A.C. Milan for only a season in the 1997/98.

Alessandro Costacurta, also known as Billy was born in 1966 and arrives at the A.C. Milan during the season 1986/87. Costacurta with Mauro Tassotti, Franco Baresi and Paolo Maldini has been part of one of the strongest defence in the football history. A defender with a great tactical intelligence, an excellent technique and a good agonistic temper, he formed with Baresi an unbeatable pair. Going through the Berlusconi era he won everything as a football player. He finished his great career in the season 2006/2007 and he started another one as a coach, always with the rossoneri colours on the background.

His unmistakable outfit wore during the matches made his nickname “the black spider”. That’s why Fabio Cudicini, between the goal posts, seemed to be eight-legged like a spider. He had a constant performances which allowed him to win a lot. Cudicini grow up in the Udinese youths and he debuted with the same team in the Serie B, 1955/56: with the bianconera jersey he gained a place in the Serie A. During his first season in the Serie A he reached 13 appearances. After two great placings with the bianconeri (fourth and ninth place), Cudicini, in the 1958, wore the AS Roma jersey and he became for two years the second goalkeeper. Since 1960 and for sixth seasons he becomes the regular goalkeeper of the team, he wears the giallorossa jersey N.1 and he won the “Coppa delle Fiere”. During his time in Rome he’s called to play with the National team on May 8th1963. In the 1966/67 he plays, even if not constantly, with Brescia FC. Even if his career seemed to be at the end, when he was 32 years older, he was called by A.C. Milan in the 1967 and with the rossonera jersey he won everything. With him A.C. Milan won a League Title, the UEFA Champions League and in the 1969 its first European/South American Cup.

Marcel Desailly was born in 1968 and he was one of the mainstay of the Fabio Capello’s A.C. Milan. He arrived in Italy during the season 1993/94, he wins soon the championship with the rossonera jersey. The next year he wins again the League Title, becoming an important player in the milanista midfield thanks to his pressing. At first as a midfielder he plays even as a central defender. Even in this role he is great, supported by his resounding technical abilities. Unforgettable his goal of the 4-0 win over Barcelona during the Final of UEFA Champions League in Athens. He left the A.C. Milan after he won two League Titles, a UEFA Champions League, two League Supercups and an European Supercup.

Roberto Donadoni is one of the first players bought in the Berlusconi era. He starts his career as a professional footballer in the Atalanta until the season 1986/87 when he became part of the A.C. Milan team following the rossonero success first with Mr. Sacchi and then with Mr. Capello. Donadoni has been one of the most experienced Italian midfielders in those years: feign, burst of speed, dribbling, cross and kick, his repertory doesn’t know gaps. His better performances are on the right area but he can even play well in the left area with great results. Just like his teammates, “The Invincibles”, in his career he won everything he could have hope with a Club. He spent two seasons in the USA where he played in the New York Metrostars, but in the 1997 was called back by Fabio Capello. He stayed other two years wearing the rossonera jersey before to go in the Saudi Arabia where he played in the Al-Ittihad winning a league title. After the end of his career as a football player he started a new one as a coach and he obtained the honour of training the Italian National Team.

Alberigo Evani grow up in the A.C. Milan youth sector and he debuted with the first team at the age of 18. He wore the rossonera jersey for 13 seasons. He was well-appreciated by Sacchi for his tactical discipline and his movement in the midfield. Evani was one of the protagonists of a great A.C. Milan that dominated in Italy, in Europe and in the world during the end of the ‘80s and in the early ‘90s. Evani had a great left foot, he was a material point for the midfield, he was a protagonist on the left wing thanks to his perfect cross. Chicco was famous for his free kicks: in the 1989 he gave the UEFA Supercup to tha AC Milan, beating the Barcelona with a great free kick; after ten days he repeated his performance and at the 119’ of the European/South American Cup final he took by surprise the goalkeeper of the Atlético Nacional with a freak kick giving the victory to the rossoneri. These are only two of the several and famous thophies winning as a protagonist. At the end of his career as a footballer Evani was still in contact with Via Turati, at first he started to train the Allievi Nazionali, with which he won a League Title during the season 2006/2007, and now he’s training the Primavera.

The AC Milan historical defence of “The Invincibles” had five great footballer: other than Tassotti, Costacurta, Baresi and Maldini there was Filippo Galli, he was bought during the season 1981/82 and, after a short experience at Pescara, he started to play with the first AC Milan team in the 1983. Together with Nils Liedholm he became the ideal teammates of Franco Baresi and in the League Title season of Arrigo Sacchi he collected 30 appearances. In the 1994 historical final of the UEFA Champions League against the Barcelona, Filippo Galli, as Baresi and Costacurta were squalified, was protagonist of a excellent performance. Just like his other teammates “The Invincibles” he won a lot of national and intranational trophies.

Giovanni Galli grew up in the youth sector of the Fiorentina, with which he debuted in the Serie A during the season 1977/78. He was the goalkeeper of the Viola’s team since the 1977 to the 1986, when he became an Ac Milan player. With the rossonera jersey he has collected several trophies: two UEFA Champions Leagues (1988/89, 1989/90), a League Title (1987/88), a European/South American Cup (1989), a European Supercup (1989) and an Italian Supercup (1988). Since the 1990 to the 1993 he played for Napoli and he won another Italian Supercup in the 1990. During the season 1993/94 he defended the Torino’s goal, while in the next championship he was in the Parma, where he played as a second goalkeeper and he won a UEFA Cup. In the October 1995 he became a Lucchese player with witch he ended his career as a professional footballer.

Mengejar Inter Walau Terlambat

Hanya dalam tiga pertandingan, AC Milan memangkas selisih poinnya atas Inter Milan menjadi tujuh angka. Rentetan kemenangan mungkin sudah jauh terlambat untuk mengejar Nerazzurri, tapi Rossoneri juga enggan menyerah.

Dengan keunggulan tujuh poin dan kompetisi yang tinggal menyisakan lima laga, sulit rasanya untuk tidak menjagokan Inter sebagai kandidat kuat juara liga musim ini. Tapi bukan berarti anak asuh Jose Mourinho bisa melalui laga tersisa itu dengan nyaman karena tekanan berat mendadak datang dari AC Milan.

Hanya dalam tiga laga, Rossoneri sudah memangkas setengah keunggulan Inter dari yang sebelumnya 14 poin menjadi hanya tujuh. Sejak pekan kedua April, Inter cuma meraih dua angka dari tiga penampilan, bandingkan dengan milan yang justru dapat hasil sempurna dengan agegat gol mencapai 9-0.

Tak mengherankan kalau Poalo Madini cs kemudian disebut punya peluang yang cukup terbuka untuk setidaknya meramaikan kembali persaingan menuju scudetto. Kesempatan yang setidaknya akan mereka jaga akhir pekan ini saat bertandang ke klub penghuni posisi 14, Catania.

"Kami masih akan meyakininya (merengkuh scudetto) selama secara matematis kami masih diizinkan untuk bisa meraihnya," ungkap Kaka pada Globoesporte seperti diberitakan Channel4.

Dengan performa yang tengah bagus-bagusnya, menjalani laga tandang harusnya bukan jadi masalah buat Carlo Ancelotti untuk bisa pulang membawa tiga poin. Apalagi selain Filipp Inzaghi yang belakangan sangat produktif, Carletto kini bisa berharap banyak Kaka yang pekan lalu tampil dominan dan menyumbang dua gol kemenangan ke gawang Palermo.

Sehari sebelum Milan berlaga, Inter akan lebih dulu bermain saat menjamu Lazio di Giuseppe Meazza. Kemenangan menjadi opsi yang sulit ditolak Zavier Xanetti cs jika tak mau melihat gelar juara yang sudah di depan mata terancam hilang direbut saudara sekota.

Yang jelas Inter justru seperti punya "sindrom akhir musim" di mana performa mereka malah menurun di pekan-pekan penghujung kompetisi. Tahun lalu, Inter nyaris kehilangan gelar yang sepertinya bisa mereka dapat sebulan sebelum roda kompetisi berhenti berputar, Nerazzurri akhirnya baru memastikan didapatnya gelar melalui dua gol telat Zalatan Ibrahimovich di pekan pamungkas Seri A.

Tapi peluang Inter meraih kemenangan pertama dalam empat pertandingan terakhir terbuka cukup lebar karena sepanjang musim ini Biancocelesti tampil tak konsisten. Usai memetik kemenangan 4-2 atas AS Roma, tim besutan Delio Rossi malah sempat ditundukkan Atalanta di kandang sendiri.

Juga menarik untuk ditunggu pada akhir pekan ini adalah bagaimana Juventus bereaksi atas serangkaian hasil buruk yang mereka terima. Setelah cuma tiga kali bermain imbang dan sekali kalah dari empat pertandingan terakhir, perjuangan Bianconeri weekend ini terhitung mudah karena mereka "cuma" harus menjamu Lecce.

Lecce yang saat ini duduk di posisi 19 klasemen pastinya punya ambisi besar untuk menang demi keluar dari zona degradasi. Namun untuk bisa menghentikan laju Zebra dari Turin yang tengah berupaya merebut kembali posisi dua, anak asuh Luigi De Canio butuh lebih dari sekedar keberuntungan

Ancelotti, Ancelotti, Ancelotti

Questions on Milan for Adriano Galliani, this morning on his arrival at the Lega Calcio. The first one was on who would be the next Milan coach. The answer of the Rossoneri's delegate administrator: "Ancelotti, Ancelotti, Ancelotti. I talk with president Berlusconi almost every day, how can I be surprised about his declarations of yesterday? I repeat what I have always said, we'll talk about it at the end of the season. Tonight we are having dinner with Carlo Ancelotti, with him there is a wonderful relationship in good and bad times."