The big ones are back original Sky Sport productions: from tomorrow, Tuesday 7 Mayarriva Milan 1994, more than a teama unique event broadcast on Sky, in streaming su NOW it’s available anche on demand. The new production in two episodes for an 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 – recounts all the stages of a winning and controversial football season, marked by the descent into the political field of the president of Milan, Silvio Berlusconiand the first Champions League triumph for coach Fabio Capello.
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 (“The white shark of Villasanta”, 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 would be enough to identify not only a single department, but a team that has made the history of Italian football: the Milan of 1994. Led on the bench by Fabio Capello, that team was made up of great champions who had grown together since the academy, and had already won together, but wanted to surpass themselves and win again. It comes from their voices and those of the “genius” Dejan Savicevic (8 trophies with Milan in 6 years, 1992-1998), by 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.
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Milan 1994 – More than a team is a meticulous work of journalistic reconstruction, fed by the copious archive material of Telepiù and Sky Sport, recovered and restored, to retrace that football year suspended between sport and politics, culminating with the Rossoneri triumph in the Champions League on 18 May 1994, in 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 defense, Franco Baresi, was excluded from the match against Barcelona. Thus begins the journey down memory lane. From the precious archive re-emerge faces that have made the history of sports programs on private TV. From Aldo Biscardi and Maurizio Mosca to the very young Giorgio Porrà e Fabio Caressa, already at the forefront of football history, there are many contributions that have made it possible to faithfully reconstruct the path of the Rossoneri 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 narrative continues urgently with over thirty repertoire voices of the protagonists of the time (including footballers, journalists, politicians, entertainers) and the current testimonies of Fausto Bertinotti (in ’94 Secretary of the Communist Refoundation), Paolo Mieli (director of Corriere della Sera in ’94), Santi Nolla (director of Mundo Deportivo), Licia Granello (journalist for La Repubblica in ’94), Paolo Condò (in ’94 journalist for ), Alberto Costa (journalist for Corriere della Sera in ’94), Carlo Pellegatti (in ’94 journalist for the Fininvest networks), Luca Serafini (in ’94 TELE+ journalist), Gianni Visnadi (a journalist for Tuttosport in ’94) and former opponents Lorenzo Minotti (winner of the ’93 Super Cup with Parma) e Hristo Stoichkov (forward 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.
The project Milan 1994 – More than a team is by Riccardo Gentile with Veronica Baldaccini, Davide Bucco and Valentina Campus, coordinated by Sara Cometti, with the creation and editing of the team led by Leopoldo Muti, composed of Sergio Quadrello, Alma Cardellini, and Andrea Rappazzo, with graphics by Andrea Gilardi and Salvatore Allegrezza and the production of Chiara Telleschi.
Milan 1994, more than a team – Episode 1
Milan 1993-1994 is preparing to experience a season full of contradictions, divided between the chase for the Champions League and the possible arrival on the field of its president, Silvio Berlusconi.
Tuesday 7 May
7.00 pm, Sky Sports Football
Milan 1994, more than a team – Episode 2
From Silvio Berlusconi’s appearance on the pitch to Milan’s success in the Champions League, the story of a memorable season through the voices of the protagonists and a special guest.
Saturday 18 May
2.30pm, Sky Sports Football
Some testimonials
Adriano Galliani: “In the autumn of 1993 Silvio Berlusconi thought about entering politics: “I will found a party – he tells me – which will be called Forza Italia, we will win the elections and I will become Prime Minister. Milan 1993/94 was more than a team. The secret was a very simple line of command: for many years there was that president, that CEO, that sports director, always them. Milan had unrepeatable uniqueness, many players born nearby and raised in our youth sector, who were with us for 20/25 years. The sense of belonging, the shirt that is a second skin, it’s all very true. The 1993/94 season was the best of our lives.”
Mauro Tassotti: “That Milan was a Milan that still had the memory of Arrigo Sacchi, who had done an extraordinary job, in my opinion, and which Capello continued. It was a Milan that was still very hungry and continued to win.”
Dejan Savicevic: “Berlusconi told me: If you are a genius, prove it to me tomorrow in Athens”.
Fabio Capello: “With Savicevic the relationship was initially conflictual, for one simple thing: when I removed him Berlusconi asked me: “Why did you remove him?” … Because he no longer ran and therefore we couldn’t play ten against eleven. I experienced the birth of Forza Italia from the inside because Berlusconi came to greet the team at Milanello and then continued certain meetings at the table and I was present there. Without Costacurta and Baresi everything became more difficult, knowing the value of these two players. This victory was certainly the most important, certainly unexpected in the predictions and therefore even more beautiful. But above all also for the number of goals. It’s not easy to see a Champions League final with so many goals and so many opportunities and so it was something unforgettable.”
Franco Baresi: “The era of the Dutch certainly ended. We knew what they had been for us and for Milan, but I always thought that this Milan could still have something to give inside. That season was very particular because Berlusconi entered politics. I personally was very curious and perhaps even a little thoughtful, in the sense that perhaps we would have seen him less, he would perhaps have been less present. There was this fear among us, in the team. But then we realized that he wanted to do something important for the country, beyond what he was doing for football and for us.”
Paolo Mieli: “Berlusconi intercepted a wave and built a group that still exists thirty years later. He had that intuition that several times in his life allowed him to build lasting businesses. I underestimated Berlusconi’s sense of construction, I underestimated the fact that Berlusconi was not a rich man because he was an heir, he was a builder. Italy needed someone to build a future and he knew how to build lasting businesses.”
Fausto Bertinotti: “The Milan fans who don’t support Milan for Berlusconi are a minority, all the teams belong to the owner. There is no relation, on the contrary, if Berlusconi had only taken care of Milan it would have been better for everyone, for Milan and for Italy. “Berlusconi’s entry into politics changes everything: sport, entertainment and politics come together, it becomes the society of spectacularization”
Luca Serafini: “It was a very particular epochal period because it came from the ruinous fall of the First Republic, from Tangentopoli. Customs and habits were changing, as often happens in Italy, there was a new wind. So there was also a certain euphoria because it was thought that a corrupt system that wasn’t working had been overthrown.” “All of us who lived with Berlusconi were convinced that he would create a sort of Switzerland out of Italy. Everyone stopped at the traffic lights, the streets were clean, the people were elegant, tidy. We all had that utopia.”
Gianni Visnadi: “The arrival of Marcel Desailly in Milan at AC Milan is sensational and surprising. Then the repair market was not January, but it was in autumn. On Sunday Boban gets hurt in a derby and two days later Desailly arrives. We are in the month of November…”.
Licia Granello: “We need to understand what that Milan was: an extraordinary team that won and put on a show. Berlusconi takes the field and it is a phrase that stands out very widely in the world of sports journalism and beyond. Milan stops being just a team, but becomes a possible vehicle for political promotion.”
Carlo Pellegatti: “Barcelona’s Savicevic goal comes straight from the Parthenon. He created the masterpiece, this arc en ciel, this wonderful rainbow that slipped through. Those are the goals that will go down in history. The brand of the great champion in the great match”.
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