Derby della Madonnina

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Derby della Madonnina, or the Milan Derby as it is sometimes known, is a football (soccer) match between the Italian clubs A.C. Milan and F.C. Internazionale Milano (Inter). It is a hotly contested local derby and is one of the most followed derbies in world football. It is usually a biannual fixture in the Italian football league Serie A; however, the derby has also taken place in the Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League.

Contents 1 The rivalry 2 The Riva and Rivera years 3 1990s: Dutch vs German 4 Summary of matches 5 2004/2005 UEFA Champions League 6 2004/2005 Season 6.1 Match 1 6.2 Match 2 7 2005/2006 Season 7.1 Match 1 7.2 Match 2 8 2006/2007 Season 8.1 Match 1 8.2 Match 2 9 References

[edit] The rivalry

On December 16, 1899, Alfred Edwards and others founded the Milan Cricket and Footbal Club. Edwards, a former British vice-consul in Milan and a well-known personality of the Milanese high society,^[1] was the club's first elected president. Initially, the team included a cricket section, managed by Edward Berra, and a football section managed by David Allison. The Milan team soon gained relevant notability under Herbert Kilpin's guide. The first trophy to be won was the Medaglia del Re (King's Medal) on January 1900, and the team later won three national leagues, in 1901, 1906 and 1907. The triumph of 1901 was particularly relevant because it ended the consecutive series of wins of Genoa, which had been the only team to have won the title prior to 1901.

In 1908, issues over the signing of foreign players led to a split and the foundation of F.C. Internazionale Milano. This started a now historical rivalry between the two cross-town clubs. The most one-sided scoreline in the history of this fixture came in 3 March 1918, when Milan beat Inter in a resounding victory of 8-1. The rivalry is especially heated since Inter broke off from AC Milan. Inter was seen as the club of the bourgeoisie (nicknamed bauscia, a milanese term meaning "braggart"), whereas AC Milan was the working-class team (nicknamed casciavit, meaning in the milanese dialect "screwdriver", with both reference to the blue-collar worker, and to "awkward") and was, and still is, mostly supported by migrants from Southern Italy.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Inter was the more successful club, being, in the sixties, World Champions twice. However during the 1990s Silvio Berlusconi's Milan was the more dominant team. This rivalry has been compounded by AC Milan acquiring a few Inter players in recent years with mixed results. Milan paid Inter a relatively cheap price for players such as Clarence Seedorf and Andrea Pirlo, who had reasonable success with the club. On the other hand, in the summer of 2005, Milan signed Christian Vieri from Inter on a free transfer. Sadly, the Rossoneri ended up with one of the most disappointing deals in the history of Italian football. Vieri's AC Milan career lasted only 6 months, mainly due to his poor form in front of goal, in total only managing 1 goal. Vieri was released from his contract before signing with AS Monaco FC.

[edit] The Riva and Rivera years

In the 60's the Milan derby saw two big stalwarts of the Italian game come face to face. The Number 10 of the black and blue (Nerazzuri) of Inter was worn by Sandro Mazzola, who was the son of the Torino F.C. legend Valentino Mazzola (who along with most of his Torino teammates, died in a plane crash in 1949 after dominating Italian football for four seasons). His Milan counter-part was 'the Golden Boy' of Italian Football and Milan, Gianni Rivera. This era saw brilliant derby matches. While Milan won the European Cup in 1962-63,Inter followed it up with back to back success in the following years. Milan again won the title in 1968-69. During this successful period for both teams, Milan were coached by Nereo Rocco and Inter were led by Helenio Herrera, both coaching many notable players. The rivalry of the two great stars of Italian footbal continued to the Italian national team, as the two players did not play together, with one usually being substituted by the other during the break; Rivera ended up missing the 1970 final against Brazil as Italy was defeated 1-4 by the South Americans. Many coches and fans saw this as a mistake by the coach as the more dynamic Gianni Rivera could have changed the story.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 1990s: Dutch vs German

Another notable rivalry era was in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the Dutch trio of Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit played for A.C.Milan and the German trio of Andreas Brehme, Jürgen Klinsmann and Lothar Matthäus defended the Inter colors. Even though those were days when A.C.Milan were dominating Italian and European football, this rivalry is mainly remembered for a famous 1990 World Cup match: the Dutch team had entered the competition as one of the favourites based on the fact that they had won the previous European Championship in 1988, and the trio had enjoyed great success at Milan at the European level with back-to-back European Cup titles. When Holland met Germany in the World Cup, the match was played at the home ground of Inter and Milan, the Stadio Guiseppe Meazza (or San Siro). It was more of a Milan versus Inter derby at the San Siro rather than just a match between two nations. The high tempered game ended in defeat for the Dutch as the already under question temperament of Rijkaard blew off and he and got sent-off after spitting on German forward Rudi Völler. Germany won the game 2-1 with two of the Inter players Klinsman and Brehme scoring, a moral victory for Inter fans. Milan, however, continued to have success both locally and internationally: they built a squad under Fabio Capello later termed as 'the invincibles', that won Milan's fifth European Cup in 1994, when they beat FC Barcelona's "dream team" 4-0 in one of the most one sided European finals ever. Capello's Milan side reached the final of the European competition three times in a row. On the other hand, Inter's long wait for a major title began after 1989, only to end in 2006, when the Calciopoli scandal stripped Juventus of the 2005-06 title and handed it to Inter.

[edit] Summary of matches

The following table lists the history of meetings between Inter and A.C. Milan, updated to the most recent derby of March 11, 2007.

	Inter Wins	Draws	Milan Wins	Total Games	Inter Goals	A.C Milan Goals
Championships	60	52	56	168	244	230
Coppa Italia	7	7	9	23	22	32
Champions League	0	2	2	4	1	4*
Other Meetings	23	11	37	71**	126**	159**
Totals	90	72	104	266	391	426

* considered only goals actually scored

** also includes the Peace Derby of September 1, 2002

[edit] 2004/2005 UEFA Champions League

Most infamous of the derby matches is the second leg of the CL quarterfinal derby between bitter crosstown rivals AC Milan and Inter Milan on April 12, 2005.

With Milan leading 1-0 (and 3-0 on aggregate) thanks to an early Andriy Shevchenko goal, Inter's hardcore supporters became infuriated after a second-half Esteban Cambiasso score was controversially nullified by referee Markus Merk - who, moments later, booked Cambiasso for dissent - due to the fact that he had just whistled an Inter forward for a foul on Milan keeper Dida in the six-yard box as players were jockeying for position inside the penalty area following an Inter corner kick. Bottles and various debris were subsequently thrown onto the pitch, but soon escalated to lit flares. As Dida attempted to clear bottles in order to take a goal kick, a flare hurtled down from the upper deck and struck the Brazilian international on the back of his right shoulder. Merk halted the match in the 74th minute. After a thirty-minute delay in which firefighters were called in to remove the burning flares from the pitch, the match was restarted. Dida, however, was unable to continue, and was substituted by Abbiati. Less than a minute later, though, Merk finally abandoned the match after more flares and debris rained down. The match was awarded as a 3-0 victory, totaling a 5-0 aggregate, to Milan.

Dida suffered bruising and first-degree burns to his shoulder, though he did not miss any game time. Meanwhile, Inter were fined €200,000 (£132,000) - the largest fine ever handed down by UEFA - and were ordered to play their first four Champions League matches behind closed doors in the 2005-06 season as punishment.

[edit] 2004/2005 Season

[edit] Match 1

October 24, 2005
	Milan	0-0	Inter	20:30 - San Siro, Milan Ref: Roberto Rosetti Attendance: 79,000
	Ambrosini 90'	(Report)	Cordoba 25' Materazzi 56' Favalli 80' Cambiasso 87'

[edit] Match 2

February 27, 2005
	Inter	0-1	Milan	20:30 - San Siro, Milan Ref: Massimo De Sanctis Attendance: 78,347
	Veron 53' Emre 84'	(Report)	Seedorf 29' Cafu 68' Kaká 74'

[edit] 2005/2006 Season

[edit] Match 1

December 11, 2005
	Inter	3-2	Milan	20:30 - San Siro, Milan Ref: Domenico Messina Attendance: 76,416
	Cordoba 14' Adriano 24' (pen) Martins 59' Adriano 91' Adriano 92'	(Report)	Nesta 23' Shevchenko 39' (pen) Kaladze 58' Simic 74' Stam 83'

[edit] Match 2

April 14, 2006
	Milan	1-0	Inter	20:30 - San Siro, Milan Ref: Massimo De Sanctis Attendance: 80,000
	Cafu 27' Pirlo 64' Kaladze 70' Gilardino 77' Seedorf 89'	(Report)	Materazzi 52' Zanetti 61' Burdisso 88' Cordoba 94'

[edit] 2006/2007 Season

[edit] Match 1

The first Milan derby of the 2006/2007 season was described by many media outlets as one of the greatest Milan derby matches of all time, with Inter winning a high scoring match 4-3. Inter went 3-0 up without response with goals from Crespo, Stanković and Ibrahimović. This was countered by a goal from Clarence Seedorf although Inter seemed to stamp their authority in the match after Materazzi scored on the 68th minute to put Inter up 4-1. Straight after the goal though, Materazzi himself picked up his second yellow card for an over exuberant celebration and was sent off. Milan scored two late goals from Gilardino and Kaká and bombarded the goal for the last 15 minutes but Inter held out for the 4-3 win.

October 28, 2006
	Milan	3-4	Inter	20:30 - San Siro, Milan Ref: Stefano Farina Attendance: 80,000
	Gattuso 5' Inzaghi 19' Seedorf 30' Seedorf 51' Gilardino 51' Gilardino 76' Kaká 90'	(Report)	Vieira 4' Crespo 17' Stanković 22' Ibrahimović 47' Maicon 54' Materazzi  55', 69' Materazzi 68' Cesar 88' Burdisso 95'

[edit] Match 2

The second Milan Derby of the 2006/2007 season took place on 11 March 2007 at the San Siro. Inter won 2-1.

March 11, 2007
	Inter	2-1	Milan	16:00 - San Siro, Milan Ref: Massimo Moratti Attendance: 67,500
	Cruz 54' Ibrahimović 79'		Ronaldo 40'

[edit] References

1. ^ http://worldsoccer.about.com/od/clubfootball/p/acmilan.htm

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