Milan 1994: More Than Just a Team

Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7th, "Milan 1994, More Than Just a Team", an original Sky Sport production, will also be available for streaming on Now and on demand. The docuseries consists of two one-hour episodes, with the first airing live at 7 PM on Tuesday, May 7th, and the second episode at 2:30 PM on Saturday, May 18th. The docuseries narrates all the stages of a winning and controversial football season, marked by the political foray of Milan's former president, Silvio Berlusconi, and the first Champions League triumph for coach Fabio Capello. Franco Baresi (Captain of Milan from 1982-1997), Alessandro Costacurta (25 trophies with Milan, including 5 Champions League/Cup Winners' Cups and 2 Intercontinental Cups), Filippo Galli ("The White Shark of Villasanta", at Milan from 1981 to 1996. With the Rossoneri, in thirteen seasons, he won 5 championships, 3 Champions Cups, 2 Intercontinental Cups, 3 UEFA Super Cups, 4 Italian Super Cups), Paolo Maldini (27 trophies won in his career with Milan, World Soccer's Player of the Year in 1994), Mauro Tassotti (Captain of Milan on May 18, '94). These five names alone identify not just a single department, but a team that made Italian football history: the 1994 Milan. Led by coach Fabio Capello, that team was made up of great champions who had grown up together from the youth team, and together had already won, but wanted to surpass themselves and win again. It is from their voices and those of the "genius" Dejan Savicevic (8 trophies with Milan in 6 years, 1992-1998), Fabio Capello (4 trophies with Milan in '94), Adriano Galliani (29 trophies in 31 years with Milan) and many journalists of the time that the story of that team and the tortuous and triumphant ride they were protagonists of between 1993 and 1994 emerges. The material used Milan 1994 - More Than Just a Team is a meticulous work of journalistic reconstruction, fueled by the extensive archival material from Telepiù and Sky Sport, recovered and restored, to retrace that football year suspended between sport and politics, culminating with the Rossoneri's triumph in the Champions League on May 18, 1994, the same night Berlusconi was confirmed in the Senate. The voice of a famous Milan fan, DJ Ringo, rekindles the memory of the 1994 final in the mind of Alessandro Costacurta who, along with the captain and leader of that exceptional defense, Franco Baresi, was excluded from the match against Barcelona. Thus begins the journey into memories. From the precious archive 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 and Fabio Caressa, already at the forefront of football narration, there are countless contributions that have allowed for a faithful reconstruction of the Rossoneri's path 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 market with the arrival of Desailly, thanks to Galliani's daring operation, the Savicevic case; the double defeat in the cups, the 14th league title, the double disqualification of Costacurta and Baresi, and Johann Cruijff's provocations on the eve of the final. All this punctuated by the political events that were literally overturning the country's scenario. The narration continues with the more than thirty archival 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 Party), Paolo Mieli (in '94 director of Corriere della Sera), Santi Nolla (director of Mundo Deportivo), Licia Granello (in '94 journalist for La Repubblica), Paolo Condò (in '94 journalist for La Gazzetta dello Sport), Alberto Costa (in '94 journalist for Corriere della Sera), Carlo Pellegatti (in '94 journalist for Fininvest networks), Luca Serafini (in '94 journalist for TELE+), Gianni Visnadi (in '94 journalist for Tuttosport) and former opponents Lorenzo Minotti (winner of the '93 Supercup with Parma) and Hristo Stoichkov (Barcelona's striker under Cruijff finalist in Champions in 1994).