Arrigo sacchi shadow play

If there was any team that represented Italian football and took it to heights never seen before, it would be none other than our beloved AC Milan.

If anything Milan were the first team to bring European honours home and spark a tactical revolution in the form of Catenaccio that began Italian football’s dominance in the 60’s with the Grande Inter side and Nereo Rocco’s Rossoneri side.

However, there came a time when Catenaccio had run its course and Italian football was waning.

Milan had undergone a takeover from media mogul Silvio Berlusconi and he wanted to bring success to the red and black of Milan.

After a shock defeat to Parma over two legs in the cup which in the midst of a very turbulent period in the 1980s – a decade which saw Milan relegated twice – Berlusconi appointed Arrigo Sacchi as the coach of Milan.

It shocked everyone in the press as Sacchi had no great prior experience as a player or a coach, to which he famously retorted: “I never knew to be a jockey you ne