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14 Feb

Serie A: AC Milan Host Verona As Juventus Clash With Inter Milan

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The latest edition of the ‘Derby d’Italia’ between Juventus and Inter Milan headlines Matchday 25 of the 2024-25 Serie A season. There is no better place to get your season-long ticket to the best football the world has to offer than DStv! Juventus and Inter will do battle at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, with the Bianconeri looking to boost their hopes of a top-four finish and a guaranteed place in the UEFA Champions League next season, while the Nerazzurri want to keep up the pressure in the race for the Scudetto against Napoli. The teams played out an incredible 4-4 draw when…

05 Nov

UCL Preview: Real Madrid Host AC Milan As Arsenal Head To Inter Milan

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The world’s premier club football competition, the UEFA Champions League, continues with an awesome slate of 18 matches across Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 November 2024. Tuesday’s action gets going with PSV Eindhoven and Slovan Bratislava hosting Girona and Dinamo Zagreb respectively in the early kick-off slots (19:45 CAT), before the heat is really turned up in the late evening (22:00 CAT) with a battle between Real Madrid and AC Milan at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. ‘Los Blancos’ and the ‘Rossoneri’ are the two most successful teams in Champions League history (15 and seven titles respectively) and will be meeting in…

18 Dec

Europa League Knockout Stage Draw: Milan Face Rennes; Roma Take On Feyenoord

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The draw for the 2023/24 Europa League knockout round play-off has been finalised, with teams dropping down from the Champions League to continue their quest for continental glory. AC Milan, who finished behind Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League group, will take on French outfit Rennes for a spot in the last 16 of this competition. The seven-time European champions have never won this competition. Elsewhere, Jose Mourinho’s Roma will take on Dutch giants Feyenoord in European competition for a third season running. The Portuguese tactician won this prize with Manchester United in 2016/17 and led his…

12 Dec

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Returns To AC Milan As Adviser To Owners

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Former AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has returned to the club as a senior adviser to the club’s ownership and management. The Swede, 42, returns to the club for a third time, six months after ending his playing career. Ibrahimovic had an illustrious 24-year career at clubs including Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Paris St-Germain and Manchester United. He won leagues in four countries and is Sweden’s all-time leading goalscorer. AC Milan’s owners, American investment firm RedBird, who bought the Serie A club for £1bn in August 2022, have appointed Ibrahimovic as an operating partner across its sports, media and entertainment investment…

05 Jun

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Ends Football Career At 41

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AC Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic has retired from football at the age of 41, bringing to an end one of the modern era’s most glittering careers. “I say goodbye to football but not to you,” the Swede told the San Siro crowd after Sunday’s last game of the season. Ibrahimovic had already announced he would leave the Italian club. He scored 511 goals for clubs including Paris St-Germain, Manchester United and both AC and Inter Milan, winning league titles in four countries. Ibrahimovic began his second spell with AC Milan in early 2020, having won the Scudetto with them in 2011,…

10 May

Champions League: ‘Something Like A War’ – Inter & AC Milan’s 2005 Quarter-Final Battle

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There was Rui Costa and there was Marco Materazzi. Beauty and the brawn. The elegant Portuguese shouldering the weight of his grizzled opponent’s elbow. Tranquillity amid the chaos as a pair of footballing rivals paused to ponder a hazy wall of red smoke and simmering flares. “Everyone was focused on the flares, on the smoke,” photographer Stefano Rellandini, who captured that iconic image 18 years ago, tells BBC Sport. “But near the centre of the pitch I saw a certain moment. “Materazzi was nicknamed something like a butcher; he is not really a gentle player. Rui Costa was the opposite…

20 Apr

UCL: Inter See Off Benfica To Set Up Milan Derby In Semi-Final

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Inter Milan secured a historic Champions League semi-final with arch-rivals AC Milan despite being held by Benfica at an ecstatic San Siro. Leading 2-0 from the first leg in Lisbon, Inter increased their aggregate lead following Nicolo Barella’s sumptuous finish before a bullet header by Fredrik Aursnes gave Benfica hope. Argentina World Cup winner Lautaro Martinez and substitute Joaquin Correa made it 5-1 on aggregate before Benfica scored two late goals through Antonio Silva and Petar Musa. Inter have lost four of their past five games in Serie A to drop out of the Champions League places, but Simone Inzaghi’s…

05 Oct

AC Milan Players Slay In Jackets Made By Virgil Abloh’s Off-White Label

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The Italian giants recently signed a partnership deal with Off-White to be the club’s official style and culture curator. Off-White was founded by Ghanaian-American designer and entrepreneur, Virgil Abloh, who passed away at age 41 in November 2021. Despite his death, though, his fashion label continues to thrive by collaborating with some of the biggest brands across the globe. AC Milan’s partnership with Off-White will see the label provide clothing for the club’s men's and women's teams off the pitch. Ahead of the club’s Champions League game against Chelsea on Wednesday, its players were spotted in their customised jackets as…