Milan History - Things you should know

SANT , i don't know if you've allrady talked about Milan's World Champions. I couldn't find such thing here
Here it is anyway :

11 players became World Champions with their National teams while playing for Milan ( that's 9th best record of all time, behind Juventus (25 World Champions), Inter (20) , Bayern ( 16), Roma ( 16) , Santos (15) , Penarol ( 14) , Nacional (13) , Sao Paolo (12) .

They are :
Italians :Pietro Arcari ( 1934) , Franco Baresi ( 1982) Fulvio Collovati ( 1982) , Andrea Pirlo ( 2006) , Gennaro Gattuso ( 2006) , Filippo Inzaghi ( 2006) , Alberto Gilardino ( 2006) , Alessandro Nesta ( 2006)

French : Marcel Desailly ( 1998)

Brazilians : Roque Junior ( 2002) , Dida in 2002 ( although he wasn't playing for Milan at the time, was Milan's player on loan to Crointhians)


Also , 14 Milan players were very close to becomming World Champions, but they had to accept the Silver medal at the end :

Italians :Gianni Rivera, Roberto Rosato and Pierino Prati in 1970 , Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta, Mauro Tassotti,Demetrio Albertini , Roberto Donadoni and Daniele Massaro in 1994
Swedish : Nils Liedholm ( 1958)
German : Karl-Heinz Schnellinger ( 1966)
Brazilians: Andre Cruz and Leonardo ( 1998 )


Another info connected to World Cups :
47 Milan players were wearing the Italian jersey at the World Cups.
It puts Milan among the top 3 teams that gave Italian National team players at the World Cups, but it's still far behind Juve and Inter who gave 72 and 64 players respectively.
Paolo Maldini and Gianni Rivera participated on 4 World Cups ( Italian record), while Franco Baresi on 3 World Cups