Why and when, AC Milan !!

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I'm not sure if there is a thread about this, but I would like to why and when some of the people from this forum became fans, supporters of AC Milan?


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I think there is another thread, but anyway...

It was around Euro 88 I saw the dutch trio for Holland and was simply amazed by them (mostly Gullit and Van Basten). I wanted to find out who they played for and found it was Milan. I started following Milan and was even more blown away by the football and the rest is simply history.

My uncle purchased an ac milan wallet for me when he went to italy in 1989 (the team i follow in Australia is also red and black).....I have been following them ever since.....thank you uncle!!!!

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Well let me say that I started following AC Milan in 1993. I have moved to Italy in 1992, due to the war in Bosnia. Since Savicevic was my favorite player and he played for AC Milan at the time I stared following Milan, and Savicevic left, and I kept following Milan, fell in love and here I m, still following AC Milan even though I live in the United States.

1982. Relatives from Italy (Bologna and Tuscany) came to visit. One of them gave me a bunch of stickers with the logos of various Serie A clubs on them. He said that his favorite was AC Milan and I liked the colors. I always remembered that. Six years later on I caught a taped match between Juve and Milan on cable TV and liked the looks of dreadlocked handsome fellow making all the elegant plays. A few weeks later I read an article in a magazine about Ruud Gullit and decided to follow Milan. It was somewhat difficult in the USA until about 1996 with the advent of that great time-waster, the Internet.

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well, the 1st time i watched football on tv was world cup 90. i saw a man with long curl hair who seemed pretty all around the pitch, moved, fight and jump with good header. that time he was the most eye-catching player and easy to ge my attention. yep the guy was gullit. then i asked my father why he had that kind hair style and my father gave the easiest way to explain for a 8 y.o kid (that just me) "in foreign countries (i'm indonesian) they have cold weather so the long hair keeps player skin more warm" . since that time i like holland national team (the likes of gullit and basten) then sooner i know there's a winner football club in where gullit and basten also played for. after that time i become a fan of ac milan till now

I knew Milan since I was a kid but didn't realy cared about them or knew something about that team at all.
I knew names like Rudd Gullit, Marco van Basten but so..? football did not realy interested me much.
In 1998 my cousin bought the first playstation and I saw AC Milan are a good team with alot of power so i started to play only with them.
There was a player who scored an enormous goals for me!
I "fell in love" with him.
I had to see who is this player for real.
so I started to watch games of Milan and ever since then I stick to Milan and can't let go.
His name was Weah.

Originally Posted by Inferno

I knew Milan since I was a kid but didn't realy cared about them or knew something about that team at all.
I knew names like Rudd Gullit, Marco van Basten but so..? football did not realy interested me much.
In 1998 my cousin bought the first playstation and I saw AC Milan are a good team with alot of power so i started to play only with them.
There was a player who scored an enormous goals for me!
I "fell in love" with him.
I had to see who is this player for real.
so I started to watch games of Milan and ever since then I stick to Milan and can't let go.
His name was Weah.

Oh Weah, loved this guy. I still have a jersey Weah from 1995. Ofcourse at the time I was like 12 so it does not fit anymore.

Great to read, how we became fans of great AC Milan.

I was given a Milan Jersey back in the '88'... at first i believe that Milan was the name of a Country...

Why everyone has become a fan of Milan for funny or/and weird reasons ??

2002-2003: No satellite or "numeric" TV (I don't know if the "numeric" word has any sense in English) at my home. So I only saw some games of Milan in CL and I admired this team.
My destiny should have been to support Juventus like my grand-father (he is from Piacenza, so he supports Piacenza first, and then Juventus), like my father, like my older brother, but I've chosen the team that gave me the will to follow football, the team that brought me sensations, good feelings, when I was watching it playing.

My love story with Milan started there, and the year after, I asked to my father to buy Canal Plus channels, allowing me to watch more and more games from Milan (only CL games as I lived in my parents home only at week-ends, so I could only follow CL games on the radio, and since 2004-2005, most of the Serie A games + all CL games, and then streamings appeared, and since, I didn't miss any game or almost, even friendlies).

So my love for Milan is quite recent, but anyway, before that, I just watched some football games in the biggest competitions (WC94, Euro96, WC98, Euro2000, WC2002). I even thought this sport was quite stupid and boring ... but Milan has changed the way I see football nowadays.

PS: I was 16yo in 2002

Seen a Milan match in 1992, and start following them since then. Have been 2 times to San Siro, and will make it 3 for the Roma match. Paolo's last home match.

I started supporting Milan few minutes ago............hmmmm........I mean in the late 60's.

I don't remember exactly how it happened but it was before the game Milan vs Manchester United in the Champions Cup. I remember myself an 8 year old boy standing on the table of our kitchen alone following a Maltese commentary of the game on the Redifusion. (cable radio)

My idol player was the GOLDEN BOY GIANNI RIVERA.

In those days we had a little choice, either Italian or English team. The Island was divided, and the Maltese were so fanatic about these two nations that even people who had no idea about the football rules and the game itself, would not miss a match when these 2 nations or teams from each side played against each other.

2002-2003: No satellite or "numeric" TV (I don't know if the "numeric" word has any sense in English) at my home. So I only saw some games of Milan in CL and I admired this team.

Geo, I think the right word is digital, I might be mistaken though.

ok, here my story....first I saw Baresi playing.....and I adored him.....try to catch up every picture on tv...it was very little in those times....I remember Donadoni playing and Rossi...
...and then there was a young boy...son of Cesare Maldini....and i thought, please, Lord, spare me.....just another spoiled kid with a rich father....I didn´t like him from the start and watched him very closely to see everyone of his mistakes......
I couldn´t find one.
My respect for Maldini grows and so my sympathy for the club. We got more pictures over here when Gullit, Rijkaard and van Basten cam e to Milan ( I´m native dutch )
I learned more about the club and the other players.
When I met my second husband, he´s from Sicily, we started to travel to Italy very often and very often we stop in Milan and go to a match.
I think when I first smell the atmosphere at San Siro, that was the moment I became a true fan.
WOW, nearly an entire book - do you think it could become a bestseller ? LOL LOL LOL

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

I think there is another thread, but anyway...

It was around Euro 88 I saw the dutch trio for Holland and was simply amazed by them (mostly Gullit and Van Basten). I wanted to find out who they played for and found it was Milan. I started following Milan and was even more blown away by the football and the rest is simply history.

Same here. Euro 88 and magnifico trio did the trick.