With Sky Sports comes Milan 1994
With Sky Sport comes Milan 1994
Sky Sport’s great original productions are back: from tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7, comes Milan 1994, more than a team, a unique appointment aired on Sky, streaming on NOW and also available on demand. The new production in two episodes of one’hour each – both aired on Sky Sport Calcio, the first episode at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, the second episode at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 18 – recounts all the stages of a winning and controversial football season, marked by the political descent of Milan president Silvio Berlusconi and the first Champions League triumph for coach Fabio Capello.
Franco Baresi (Milan captain 1982-1997), Alessandro Costacurta (25 trophies with Milan, including 5 Champions Cups/Champions League and 2 intercontinental), Filippo Galli (“The white shark from Villasanta” at Milan from 1981 to 1996. With the Rossoneri, in thirteen seasons, he won 5 championships, 3 Champions 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 May 18 ‘94).
These five names would be enough to identify not just a single department, but a team that made Italian soccer history: the 1994 Milan team. Led on the bench by Fabio Capello, that formation was composed of great champions who had grown up together from the nursery, and together they had already won, but they 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), Fabio Capello (4 trophies with Milan in ’94), Adriano Galliani (29 trophies in 31 years with Milan) and many reporters of the time, the tale of that team and the tortuous and triumphant ride they were protagonists of between 1993 and 1994.
Milan 1994 – Più Più che una squadra è un 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 May 18, 1994, on the same night in which the confidence in Berlusconi was confirmed in the Senate.
The voice of a famous Milanista, 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, remainedò excluded from the challenge against Barcelona. Thus begins the journey through memories. From the precious archives 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 and Fabio Caressa, already in the forefront of football storytelling, there are many contributions that have made it possible to faithfully reconstruct the rossoneri’s path in the 1993/94 season, starting with 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 reckless operation, the Savicevic case; the double defeat in the cups, the 14° scudetto, the double disqualification of Costacurta and Baresi and the provocations of Johann Cruijff on the eve of the final. All this punctuated by the political events that were literally turning the country’s scenario upside down.
The narrative continues pressing with the more than thirty repertoire voices of the protagonists of the time (including footballers, journalists, politicians, showmen) and the current testimonies of Fausto Bertinotti (in ‘94 Secretary of Rifondazione Comunista), Paolo Mieli (in ‘94 director of Corriere della Sera), Santi Nolla (director of Mundo Deportivo), Licia Granello (in ’94 journalist of 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 Super Cup with Parma) and Hristo Stoichkov (striker for Cruijff’s Barcelona finalist in the Champions League in 1994).
