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I can't believe I can watch this for free, the quality of all of your videos is absolutely stunning. Keep up the great work 👏

As a Milanista who grew up during the early Berlusconi era this was a true masterpiece. Well done you never fail to deliver, this took me on a massive trip of nostalgia.

This guy is just fantastic in what he does

As a fan of football, history, and film, I can truly say that there is no entity on this planet that can compete with the masterpieces you create! The quality of your videos FAR surpasses the content of multibillion dollar media outlets. The level of detail down to the tactical analysis, the storytelling ability to immersively follow a team's timeline, the way you interweave the plots of different videos with each other, even the visuals like including newspaper headlines, quotes, and formations... And when it comes to setting up the moment? The grand finale? No one does it better. I always feel as if I'm reliving the moment, even for moments I wasn't alive for/never even witnessed. I simply cannot get enough of how special you are at making these videos, and you deliver EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. You are in a world of your own, and I hope we as fans can continue to enjoy your art for years to come!

Filippo Inzaghi was a sensational striker. Ancelotti made good decision to start him that final. Pippo had always had that look of the special moments.

Damn, this video pulled my heartstrings... I started supporting Milan in 2001 when I was 7. The 2003 UCL final was the nail that stuck my heart to the red-black side of Milano forever. Even though his reign ended in a less ideal way, nobody can deny the historic supremacy of Berlusconi's Milan. May you rest in peace, Presidente. There will always be a special place reserved for you in every single Milanisti's hearts.

Absolutely briliant stuff, can't wrap my head around the fact that this is done by one person.

Channels like this are why I hate the word "content". Our guy here isn't a KZfaqr creating content. He's a documentary filmmaker creating art.

"The media expected Sacchis sacking, but he had Berlusconi's backing." Pure poetry haha.

As a Milan fan, i could not have hoped for a better video release than this 😍🥳

Their demolition of a very good Barcelona team in the 1994 Champions League final, 4-0, was one of the best performances I've ever seen. They nearly won it 5 times from 1989 to 1995. They still won the European Cup/CL 3 times in that period. One of the best teams ever.

Though the final of 07 still stings as a Liverpool fan, fair play to Milan. They showed that Italian football can and was still dominant and wasn't regressing at all while English football was still rising to be dominant. This video has showed me that Milan even while winning European and continental championships, were still struggling a lot domestically. Thank you Balon for showing us everything up until 07 of Berlusconi's Milan era. ❤

Gotta love Sacchi. In his 40s he looked 70

I have the utmost respect for Italian football (Serie A) so many great teams. Juventus, Inter , AC Milan, Lazio, Roma, Napoli, Fiorentina and company. Thanks for posting this gem

Italy's serie A during the 90s was something else. as a kid i couldn't understand why english teams were so far behind. i feared every italian team in european competition

I’m not even a hardcore football fan but I watch every single one of your videos. The production values are amazing and you are able to tell compelling stories that even someone with only basic football knowledge like me can appreciate. This is genuinely one of the best and most unique KZfaq channels I’ve ever encountered.

This channel is still the only Patreon that I've contributed to, even then it still feels like a steal. The narration, archives, editing, and going through timelines of these teams is simply incredible. Amazing work. It's also the first time, I heard that Berlusconi really modernized football in all aspects not just the money. He also brought in the nutrition. I always thought Wenger was the first to do it, perhaps the first in England.

The two constant Berslusconi and Maldini who saw the ups and downs but never gave on up AC Milan, They say LOYALTY I hear MALDINI , this is what we fans love the history the passion the love that this game give to us FORZA ITALIA FORZA MILAN.

This is the best historical reference on the most interesting, controversial, dramatic club I’ve known. It wonderfully narrates the best historical facts I’ve lived at an early age in the beginning of the 90s. That shift between Sacchi and the good old Capello is regarded one of the greatest periods in football modern history at clubs level. I expected at least a part that sheds light at Gianluigi Lentini’s rise to stardom as well as his end of football career in the beginning of the 90s, since it has always meant a lot to AC Milan fans. Beautiful documentary.

I was at the stadium when Napoli played against Atalanta and Alemao was "injured" by the coin. If you watch the TV images you can clearly hear Salvatore Carmando, Napoli massage therapist, saying "buttati in terra" (get on the ground, get on the ground!) to Alemao who wanted to keep playing and didn't look injured at all. That's what made Berlusconi furious when Napoli was awarded the 2-0 win. One thing I remember about those years was the amount of coins thrown by entire stadium when Napoli came to Bergamo, at the end of the games coins were everywhere, "paving" the area below the stands and some fans rushed to collect them back with full hands. Anyway, my compliments, great video and great knowledge of Serie A!

Beautifully done, I feel not a lot of attention is often given to Milan's difficulties before Berlusconi took over, so it's awesome that you covered them, as well as the origins of Sacchi, Capello, Baresi etc. I'd love to see a 'Context' episode on the "Aguero!!" goal, for example exploring City's years outside of the Premier League e.g. the '99 playoff final, before their ownership change

Time to watch this 100 times until you come out with your next video. Keep it up

I watched that Milan team in real time 35 years ago, still the best club side in football history

20:43 best backline of all time in club football. I dont think we have seen a better collection of players to marshall a backline since the Milan team of the late 80s and early 90s. Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta, Mauro Tassotti and Paolo Maldini. Whats ironic is that Milan was never considered a "defensive" side even though they had an all time great backline. Thats how great Milan was as a team.

You know it’s a good day when balón uploads. The GOAT of football documentaries

bloody hell too much class in this club Van Basten Sheva Maldini Baresi Kaka Rijkard Guillet and many many many others Sacchi Capello Ancelotti and bloody hell, what a channel keep the unbelievable highly valuable work up

I'm glad that this piece of art is available to watch on KZfaq, you have dropped another masterpiece balon. I only hope for you to be widely recognized all over the world. Thank you.

I was 16 when I first started watching him now I’m 19 best channel ever

Thank you for doing this video brother. As a ROSSONERO🔴⚫🔴⚫, he was Perez before Perez. A true hero who loved the club with everything that he had with him, not just with money but having a true vision of turning this CLUB into a true FOOTBALL institution especially WORLDWIDE.

The fact that these are youtube videos anyone can access is incredible

Another masterpiece Fahad. A gripping documentary helped by you narration, editing and research. I love how you also end the narration before the climatic end that plays out with raw emotion. Greatest football channel on this platform ! Thank you.

I am crying. Thanks for this, so many memories up and down. We as Milanisti still waiting for the next moment of glory in the Champions League. #ForzaMilan

I’m an American trying to learn more on the clubs in Europe and this channel is great. Love seeing that it’s getting great reviews too.

We are seated for this Masterclass. amazing work❤

A masterpiece in the form of a documentary, it is surprising that it is still free on KZfaq. This Milan and Inter 2010 made me a fan of the Italian league. Greetings from Brazil, Fahad.

First off all, what a best video you made, but it's so sad that Berlusconi had passed away 4 months earlier (several days after Manchester City won the Treble at Istanbul). There are important things you mentioned here regarding this video: 1.The Bosman system also changed an European football a lot. Although bigger clubs in Europe had a better performance with the presence of best foreign players, it also reduced chances of several clubs outside England, Spain, Italy, or Germany to have a full potential of becoming the greatest. Had this system didn't implemented, it might be exciting to see clubs from France, Portugal, and Netherlands to win the Champions League. Even Lyon in 2000s were destined to have more success. 2.The Calciopoli also destroyed the Italian Football. Inter Milan's 2010 Treble proved to be the last time a Serie A club managed to win the Champions League, although in the last season, there are 3 Italian clubs playing in the 3 different European Finals. National team of Italy also affected. Even though the European Championship was still good, reaching the 2012 Final and even winning it in 2020, the World Cup was a different story. They failed to play in the last 2 editions after losing the playoffs (2018 and 2022). 3.You also mention the English dominance in the Champions League, when 3 PL clubs did progressed to the semifinals of 2006/07. Between 2005 and 2009, England had at least 1 clubs featuring in the Final, but they only won twice. The 2007/08 was the best campaign of the Premier League in the Champions League, with 4 PL clubs reaching the quarterfinal and Manchester United and Chelsea produced the first all-English Final at Moscow. Both sides had almost made the rematch in Rome 2009, if not a Stamford Bridge Scandal was truly happened. Chelsea's 2012 triumph at Munich marked the end of the dominance, and PL clubs didn't dominate again until 2019. Between 2019 and 2023, PL won three times in the Champions League and there were 2 all-English Finals in 2019 and 2021. I hope this dominance will continue again when Wembley hosted the penultimate stage of this season on June 1, 2024.

Let's goooo! He is back with another masterpiece 😀

Kaka in 07 was damn near flawless.

An absolute masterpiece once again. Dare I say turned the fire up more on my love for Milan. Didn't know that could happen. Became a die hard football fan and AC Milan fan in 2002, so when this story got around that time, it made me reminisce. Thank you again for this wonderful video and your masterclass of a channel ♥️🖤

He can make a video in any topic and turn it to masterpiece...best thing ever..worth a wait

Watching the last 10 minutes with tears in my eyes. I miss the 2005 - 2007 Milan team so much

Van Basten has always stressed how well things were organised at Milanello. I think AC Milan at the time was ahead of all other teams in professionalism.

I have been a witness of these wonderful Milan years that will surely be hard to repeat . A fantastic feeling going again through these legendary wins and unfortunately those only 2 non deserved loses against OM and Liverpool in those champions league finals.Great narrative that made me even cry watching the great players that have worn the Rossoneri shirt through these years. Very accurate , very professional and with a very emotional and retro atmosphere and voice that gave me the goosebumps during the whole time watching. It gives such an indescribable emotion that is hard to see elsewhere except in this channel . Thanks for this great documentary.

By far the best football documentaries on the internet, never stop making them!

This guy should be acting as a narrator...in web series....he is one of the best narrators I have ever seen and heard... BALON LEGENDA

This guy is KZfaq underrated legend

You are one of the very few channels where I like the videos before I even started watching them. Simply because I know how awesome they will be, especially when I see it's gonna be over an hour long. Your work is breathtakingly good, there's really no other way for me to describe it anymore. The never ending appreciation from your subscribers under every vid speaks for itself.

I've been a Bayern München Fan since 1993....but been following football since 1990 when Germany won the World Cup...but I've ALWAYS had a "love affair" with Seria A.... especially with Inter Milan due to Trapattoni, Matthäus, Klinsmann & Brehme. But AC Milan....what a Team under Sacci....what an incredible defense they had with Baresi, Maldini, Costacurta etc.... This team was tactically just incredibly hard to beat.....their offside trap and incredible will to win.

My friend, You are a GENIUS! I absolutely love every single one of your videos Thank you for these brilliant pieces of art

Kids these days will never know how powerful and feared old AC Milan was.

FORZA MILAN CHEERS FROM CROATIA

This is one of the best documentaries I’ve ever watched. It’s gripping, nostalgic, well researched, full of quality, well presented, carefully paced but never slow and extremely informative. Thank you for producing something at this high level. This reflects the football I fell in love with as a child during the Maradona years: art, philosophy, drama and history all perfectly balanced.

The GOAT is back. I salute you Sir for your dedication & product. Keep going. 👍

As always phenomenal work! Your style and quality of documentary is unmatched on KZfaq!

Amazing, as usual. Best football content on KZfaq, bar none. Always worth the wait!

I've been waiting a long time for another content since MESSI's one ..Your voice, the editing, the background, content and themes are so top notch 🤩

42:21 And, to think, Sheva did something that not even Ronaldo or Batiustia, two of the best foreign-born strikers in Serie A in the 1990s, and two of the greatest Pure No. 9s of all time, did in their first season in Italian ⚽. Didn't even know that. Truly amazing.

I've been hooked to this channel for a few years now, since watching the barca video, and I can honestly conclude this is the best and heartfelt video released. My joy and love for football started at the age of 9 in the Liverpool and Milan final and I have a huge craving for football heritage. Such videos give a proper insight and understanding to the rich history of Milan and its talented players, understanding how dominant Capello was in the football world, realizing that invincible seasons have been done before, realizing Berlusconi was as positively-influential as the likes of Perez and that Milan was as dominant as barca 08-12 and the current man city side. Fantastic! FORZA MILANO

AC Milan...my first love

Incredible documentary as always. The amount of work and effort put in is above big football documentary makers. I look forward to the next one!

Felt sad watching this.. and remembering all the emotions and nerves I felt while watching the matches in real time… perfect end shot as well.. as everything after the 2007 win is just another bit of dirt on the coffin.. 🔴⚫️🔴⚫️… back then I definitely thought we would catch and surpass madrid in the CL cup race.. all after 2007 it was milan 7 madrid 9.. since milan fell off all of Europe combined has allowed madrid to gain 5 more.. Milan were there only rivals

One thing you forgot to mention about the 1994 CL Final; Because of the 3 non-nationals rule, Cruyff decided to not play Michael Laudup in the final (ironically, his brother, Brian, did not play for Milan in the final either, something that obviously would had been historic), something that Capello noted after the match when he said that Michael was the only player on Barça that he feared coming into the match. Would the Final would had been different if he would've been able to play? We'll never know. Love your videos!

i remember Zvonimir Boban!! Damn,that was great player!

Bro the editing of your vids are just stunning. Fair play brother I can understand the amount of time you spend on it.

As a milanista for the past 20 years, this is the video I was waiting for. You’re the best in the business my brother, the music, the editing, the cohesiveness. Everything is 10/10.

There is no better football history channel than yours. Thank you for posting.

This is football heritage

13:33 we need a Napoli video as well. But in all seriousness, Serie A was so strong during that time. There were incredible teams like Maradona's Napoli, Juventus, Inter and of course Milan

I cant begin to explain to this generation how good this team and era was. I can only compare the Van Basten Gullit Rikard status to that of Messi Iniesta and Xaxi circa 2010. Were talking the 3 best players in the world at that time playing together. It was incredible to watch.

Absolutely Amazing. The details and the research is incredible. Throughly enjoyed it and will probably watch it again in 2-3 months. Hope the next video comes out before the end of the year Fahad. ♾️🐐

Thank you for posting all this documentaries🙏

tv channels/netflix etc need tens of millions $ to make documentaries. this guy probably spent $100 and a lot of time. and he's way better than anything those millions can make. I'm so happy he has an english channel

Wow... just wow, im so happy you are back and give us more of these amazing content... a blessing

You produce the most incredible football documentaries on KZfaq. It's actually mind-blowing what you've achieved here. 👏

You deserve far more views and subsciptions for your content. very interesting topics, high quality and well researched!

Amazing amazing editing, and story telling. The quality is so much higher than any other football documentarian

You're very compact and detailed with your work, thank you so much- this is top notch narration

The best AC Milan video I’ve seen on KZfaq. Keep up the brilliant work👏🏽

Long time, glad to have you back... Amazing work as always.

It’s been a while, I’ve been checking your channel every now and then for a few months now, awesome to have you back on KZfaq ❤️

You're the Best. Nothing else to say. Your talent to tell a story needs to be spread EVERYWHERE on this planet, for all true football fans ! B-R-A-V-O !

Bro, your videos are absolutely incredible man. Keep up the good work.

This channel is legitimately one of the best things on the internet

Absolutely phenomenal 👏🏼 FORZA MILAN!! 🔴⚫️🔴⚫️

Every video this guy makes is a piece of cinematic art and its unbelieveble he doesnt have more subscribers and get more support. All his videos give me goosebumps and make me feel like the biggest fan of the team/player hes talking about. Especially since pretty much most of these things ive witnessed as a child. Its just fantastic. Keep up the great work!

Thank god this channel still posts videos! Awesome work!

Another masterpiece 👏 Looking forward for the next one!

Insane video as always, please never stop

The legend is back! We missed u so so much man! Welcome back!

such quality videos, my heart warms when i watch ur videos. U deserve alot of subs!

Oh I’m a happy person today 😁😁 this is by far the best footballing channel on KZfaq. The research and work put into the videos are absolutely first class 😎

Absolutely love your stuff man. Well researched and so so interesting.

Thanks to FIFA 05’, my love for Milan was all thanks to the brilliance of my childhood idols of Shevchenko, Seedorf, Pirlo, & Kaka. FORZA MILAN 🔴⚫️

In the weeks before the 1994 Champions League final, Barcelona was on fire in the Spanish competition and Milan looked to be exhausted in its final matches of the Serie A (having already secured the title earlier). There was no serious doubt that Barcelona was going to crush Milan. But reality disagreed :)

I sometimes wish that football go back to the days of the 80s and 90s. Where only the champions of a certain league and the winners of the European Cup will get into the following seasons's European Cup. And that 2nd and 3rd place teams in the league would go to the UEFA Cup and the domestic cup winners who didnt get those two other qualifications, would get into the Cup Winners' Cup. That way all the European trophies would be strong and prestigious rather than now where everyone wants to be in the Champions League and call the other competitons irrelevant. Back then peoole took pride in winning a UEFA Cup or a Cup Winner's Cup because they were playing great sides to win it. Now they are playing 5th or 7th best teams in the top divisions. And also the foreign players quota helped some national teams to develop their own players through clubs

This vid so good almost turned me into a Milan fan. Great work can’t wait for the next one.

I'm glat you come back!) Your videos always top class! Keep on!)

Long time...glad youve come back with another great video!

Thank you very much for doing this video. From my point of view as a still ‚young‘ Milan fan from 2011 I always knew about the story, about the coaches, the players, the matches, the results etc. But I never got such a deep sight in the history of my club like in this video and I also learned some new stuff I didn’t know before, so I only want to say thank you very much for doing this video, thank you, thank you, thank you…. It was one of the fastest 1 hour videos I’ve ever experienced.