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Saturday, April 7, 2012

AC Milan FC


Associazione Calcio Milan founded in 1899 commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan, is a Professional Italian Football Club club based in Milan,Lombardy that plays in the Serie A (also called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia , is a professional league competition for Football Clubs located at the top of the Italian Football League systemand has been operating for over eighty years since the 1929-30 season)

The owner of the club is former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berulusconi and the vice-president is Adriano Galliani . The club is one of the wealthiest and most valuable in Italian and world football

AC Milan's home games are played at San Siro, also known as the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. The stadium, which is shared with Inter, is the largest in Italian football, with a total capacity of 80,018


Red and black are the colors which represented the club throughout its entire history. They were chosen to represent the players' fiery ardor (red) and the opponents' fear to challenge the team (black). Rossoneri, the team's widely-used nickname, literally means "the red & blacks" in Italian, in reference to the colors of the stripes on its jersey.
White shorts and black socks are usually worn as part of the home strip. Milan's away strip has always been completely white.

 Championship Titles Won
AC Milan is the most successful club in World Football in terms of International Trophies along with Boca Jiuniors, with 18 officially recognized UEFA and FIFA Titles.
AC Milan has won 4 World Titles more than any other club in the world, having won the Intercontinental Cup thrice(1969,1989 and 1990) and the FIFA Club World Cup once in 2007
AC Milan also won the European Cup/Champions League 7
 times(1962-63,1968-69,1988-89,1989-90,1993-94,2002-03 and 2006-07) second only to Real Madrid
AC Milan also won the UEFA Super Cup a record 5 times(1989,1990,1994,2003 and 2007) and the UEFA Cup Winner's Cup twice (1967-68 and 1972-73)

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