Paolo Maldini Wins Facchetti Award
RightFielders Women in Sports —
AC Milan captain Paolo Maldini has been given the Giacinto-Facchetti, il bello del calcio prize for his performance and his contribution to Italian soccer. The award, which is also known as the ‘beauty of football’, will be given in a ceremony next Monday.“It gives me great joy to receive this award,” the former Italy international ...
Maldini Monday
AC Milan —
LIVING LEGEND
Thanks to SerieA.tv for the great compilation, and great tune…
There are only four weeks left in Il Capitano’s amazing career, if anyone has anything to share please send it along to acmilan@theoffside.com.
Player Profile: A Date With History For Paolo Maldini
Serie A Weekly —
FootballBlips: vote it up! AC Milan's Paolo Maldini smiles during a training session at the Hamed Bin Jassin stadium in Doha March 3, 2009. (original photo Reuters) On Sunday May 24th Captain Paolo Maldini will say goodbye to the Rossoneri supporters at the San Siro stadium, in his final match for AC Milan against capital rivals AS Roma. Two months ago Maldini announced that he will be finally retiring at the end of the 2008–09 season and on May 17th Maldini played his 900th match for the Rossoneri against Udinese. This finale is not going to be a gentle affair as visitors Roma cannot afford to make it a meaningless encounter, ...
Top 20 Azzurri players of all time - No 9
Football Italiano —
Description Top 20 Azzurri players of all time - No 9 By Andrea Tallarita 9 - Paolo Maldini In a world of mercenaries and prostitutes, it is the richest who write the laws - except when someone like Paolo Maldini holds the guns. Bred and forged in the pitches of Milan since his first trial in 1978 and never abandoning the team to these days that are running now, this man stands less as a football player than as a red and black flag whipping in the wind. Perhaps only Alessandro Del Piero and Francesco Totti, among his Italian contemporaries, can claim a similar status in their own teams - but Maldini dwarfs both of them in terms of seniority ...
