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2012–13 AC Milan Season
The 2012–13 in Italian football, 2012–13 season was AC Milan, Associazione Calcio Milan's 79th in the Serie A and 30th consecutive season in the top flight of Football in Italy, Italian football. Milan strived to regain the Serie A title, which they lost to Juventus FC, Juventus in the previous season. The ''Rossoneri'' also competed in 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League, as well as the Coppa Italia. This season was the first not to feature a number of recent club legends, namely Gennaro Gattuso (1999–2012), Filippo Inzaghi (2001–2012), Clarence Seedorf (2002–2012), and Alessandro Nesta (2002–2012), whose contracts were not extended at the end of the previous season. High-profile players arriving at the club as veterans, namely Gianluca Zambrotta and Mark van Bommel, were also released from their contracts following their expiration on 1 July 2012. Finally, star players Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimović unexpectedly left Milan during pre-season w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AC Milan
(), commonly referred to as Milan or AC Milan () mainly outside of Italy, is an Italian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Founded in 1899, the club competes in the Serie A, the top tier of Italian football league system, Italian football. In its early history, Milan played its home games in different grounds around the city before moving to its current stadium, the San Siro, in 1926. The stadium, which was built by Milan's second chairman, Piero Pirelli, and has been shared with Inter Milan since 1947, is the largest in Italian football, with a total capacity of 75,817. The club has a long-standing rivalry with Inter, with whom they contest the ''Derby della Madonnina'', one of the most followed derbies in football. Milan has spent its entire history in Serie A with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons. Silvio Berlusconi’s 31-year tenure as Milan president was a standout period in the club's history, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennaro Gattuso
Gennaro Ivan Gattuso (; born 9 January 1978) is an Italians, Italian professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who is currently the Manager (association football), head coach of the Italy national football team, Italy national team. As a player, Gattuso mainly played in the centre as a defensive midfielder, although he was also capable of playing out Wide midfielder, wide. He initially played for Perugia Calcio, Perugia, US Salernitana 1919, Salernitana and Rangers F.C., Rangers, though he is mostly remembered for his time with AC Milan in Serie A, where he won the UEFA Champions League in 2002–03 UEFA Champions League, 2002–03 and 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, 2006–07, the Coppa Italia in 2002–03 Coppa Italia, 2002–03, and also the Serie A title in 2003–04 Serie A, 2003–04 and 2010–11 Serie A, 2010–11. In addition to these titles, he also won two Italian Supercups, two UEFA Supercups, and a 2007 FIFA Clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Ambrosini
Massimo Ambrosini (; born 29 May 1977) is an Italian former professional Association football, footballer who mainly played as a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder. At club level, he is mostly known for his successful time at Italian team AC Milan, where he spent eighteen years of his career, winning several titles, and Captain (association football), captained the side from 2009 to 2013 following the retirement of Paolo Maldini. Ambrosini retired from professional football in 2014, after a season with ACF Fiorentina, Fiorentina. At international level, he represented Italy national football team, Italy at the Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 2000 Summer Olympics, and in two UEFA European Championships, winning a runners-up medal at UEFA Euro 2000. He currently works as a pundit and football commentator for Sky Sport (Italy), Sky Sport Italia. Club career AC Milan Ambrosini began his career with AC Cesena, Cesena and graduated to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester City
Manchester City Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the English football league system, top flight of Football in England, English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club's home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium, Etihad Stadium in east Manchester, to which they moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. Manchester City adopted their sky blue home shirts in 1894, the first season with the current name. Over the course of its history, the club has won ten List of English football champions, league titles, seven FA Cups, eight EFL Cup, League Cups, seven FA Community Shields, one UEFA Champions League, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. The club joined the English Football League, Footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Balotelli
Mario Balotelli Barwuah (; ''Birth name, né'' Barwuah; born 12 August 1990) is an Italian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for club Genoa CFC, Genoa. Balotelli started his professional football career in 2005 at FC Lumezzane, Lumezzane, before joining Inter Milan in 2007. He won the Treble (association football), treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, and UEFA Champions League, Champions League) in 2010. Balotelli reunited with Internazionale manager Roberto Mancini at Manchester City F.C., Manchester City in 2010, helping them win a 2011–12 Premier League, Premier League title and 2011 FA Cup Final, FA Cup. He moved back to Italy in January 2013, signing for Inter's Derby della Madonnina, rival club, AC Milan, before returning to the Premier League with Liverpool F.C., Liverpool 18 months later. Following a return to Milan on loan, Balotelli departed to France, playing for OGC Nice, Nice and Olympique de Marseille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Euro 2012
The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2012 or simply Euro 2012, was the 14th UEFA European Championship, European Championship for List of men's national association football teams#UEFA (Europe), men's national football teams organised by UEFA. The final tournament, held between 8 June and 1 July 2012, was co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine (both first time hosts), and was won by Spain national football team, Spain, who beat Italy national football team, Italy UEFA Euro 2012 final, in the final at the Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Olympic Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine. Poland and Ukraine's bid was chosen by the UEFA Executive Committee on 18 April 2007. The two host teams qualified automatically while the remaining 14 finalists were decided through a UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying, qualifying competition, featuring 51 teams, from August 2010 to November 2011. This was the last European Championship to employ the 16-team finals format in use sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Pato
Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva (; born 2 September 1989), commonly known as Alexandre Pato () or just Pato, is a Brazilian former professional association football, footballer who played as a Striker (association football), striker. Pato began his career as a youth player for Sport Club Internacional, Internacional in 2000, making his debut in 2006 at age 16. He went on to score 12 goals in 27 appearances and helped them win the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup. In August 2007, he signed for Italian side AC Milan. In 2009, he scored 18 goals in 42 matches in all competitions, which earned him both the Golden Boy Award, Golden Boy and Serie A Young Footballer of the Year awards. During the 2010–11 AC Milan season, 2010–11 season, he helped Milan win the 2010–11 Serie A, Serie A, where he was the club's joint top scorer with 14 goals in 25 games. In January 2013, Pato returned to Brazil, signing for €15 million with Corinthians, where he won the 2013 Campeonato Paulista, Camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Saint-Germain F
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Zlatan Ibrahimović (born 3 October 1981) is a Swedish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Striker (association football), striker. Ibrahimović is known for his acrobatic strikes and Volley (association football), volleys, technique, ball control, and physical dominance. He is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and is one of the most decorated footballers in the world, having won 34 trophies in his career. He scored over List of men's footballers with 500 or more goals#Footballers with 500 or more goals, 570 career goals, including more than 500 club goals, and scored in four consecutive decades between the 1990s and the 2020s. Ibrahimović began his career at Malmö FF in 1999, and signed for AFC Ajax, Ajax two years later, where he won two Eredivisie titles and gained a reputation as one of the most promising forwards in Europe. He departed three years later to sign for Juventus FC, Juventus before joining domestic rivals In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiago Silva
Thiago Emiliano da Silva (born 22 September 1984) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense. Regarded as one of the best defenders of all time, he is known for his defensive prowess, discipline, and leadership. Silva began his senior club career in 2002 playing as a midfielder for RS Futebol, and transitioned to a defensive position while at Juventude; he then signed with Porto in 2004, at age 19, and moved to Dynamo Moscow on loan, where he was hospitalized with a near fatal bout of tuberculosis. After recovering, he joined Fluminense and won a Copa do Brasil in 2007. In 2009, Silva moved to AC Milan for a reported fee of €8 million and won the 2010–11 Serie A title. In 2012, Silva was the subject of a then- record football deal when he signed for Paris Saint-Germain in a transfer worth up to €42 million, becoming the most expensive defender ever at the time. There, he would beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Van Bommel
Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel (born 22 April 1977) is a Dutch Association football, football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. His FIFA World Cup profile describes him as "a tackling machine and expert ball-winner, but he also boasts a fine array of passes and a powerful shot, having been a Direct free kick, free-kick specialist during his PSV Eindhoven, PSV days". He played in and won the Dutch Eredivisie with PSV, Spanish La Liga with FC Barcelona, Barcelona, German Bundesliga with Bayern Munich, and Italian Serie A with AC Milan, Milan. Between 2000 and 2011, he won eight national championship titles in four competitions: four with PSV, two with Bayern, one with Barcelona and one with Milan. Van Bommel won the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League with Barcelona and was Bayern's first foreign Captain (sports), captain. At Bayern, he led the team to two List of German football champions, Bundesliga titles, and finished runner-up in the 2010 UEFA Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianluca Zambrotta
Gianluca Zambrotta (; born 19 February 1977) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a full-back or as a wide midfielder, on both the left and right wings. Throughout his career, Zambrotta played for several different Italian clubs. He began his career with local club Como in 1994, and gained prominence while playing for Bari, which earned him a transfer to Juventus in 1999. During his seven seasons with the club, he won two consecutive Serie A and Supercoppa Italiana titles in 2002 and 2003, also reaching the 2003 UEFA Champions League final. He also later spent two relatively unsuccessful seasons with Barcelona between 2006 and 2008, where he won the 2006 Supercopa de España, before returning to Italy to play for AC Milan, where he won his third Serie A and Supercoppa Italiana titles in 2011. He ended his career after a season with Swiss club Chiasso in 2014, whom he later went on to coach. At international level, Zambrotta won 100 caps for the It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
