On 1 June 2002 Baresi was officially appointed as director of football at Fulham, but tensions between Baresi and then Fulham manager Jean Tigana led to resignation from the club in August.

In 1999, Baresi was voted AC Milan Player of the Century.

Despite this setback, Baresi refused to give up his dream and tried out for the Milan youth team, where he was accepted.

With Milan, Baresi won six scudetti ( Serie A league titles ) and three European Cups – though he did not take part in the last win, his club's 1994 Champions League victory, through suspension.

After 20 years with Milan, Baresi announced his retirement as a player on 24 June 1997.

The list contains choice of the " greatest living footballers ", Baresi was one of many from the legendary Milan teams of the 1990s to be included.

The emphasis of this system in Italian football spawned the rise of many top defenders such as Claudio Gentile and Gaetano Scirea in the 1970s, Giuseppe Bergomi and Franco Baresi in the 1980s, the famous all-Italian Milan defensive four of Baresi, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta and Mauro Tassotti of the 1990's and 2006 World Cup winners Fabio Cannavaro and Alessandro Nesta and many others in 2000s for which the Italian national team would become famous.

In 1988 – 89 European Cup season, Red Star played against Arrigo Sacchi ’ s A. C. Milan with its Dutch European champions trio Gullit, van Basten and Rijkaard, the absolute superstars at that time, as well as the devensive stars Baresi, Maldini, Costacurta and Tassotti.

Alongside the likes of AC Milan legend Franco Baresi and Juventus FC's Antonio Cabrini and Gaetano Scirea, he formed the backbone of the national team's defence for much of the 1980s, making his debut on 14 April 1982 in a 0 – 1 friendly loss in East Germany, aged only 18 years and 3 months ; in the victorious World Cup run in Spain, he appeared in three games, including the full 180 minutes in the last two matches.

Capello made his second and best remembered coaching experience in the early 1990s again with Milan, replacing Sacchi and leading a team including the likes of Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Paolo Maldini, and Franco Baresi to four Serie A titles in five years with a team nicknamed " The Invincibles ".

A Milan vs Barcelona celebration match, featuring great names past and present ( such as Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, and Franco Baresi ) was played on 15 March 2006.

Franco Baresi (; born 8 May 1960 in Travagliato, Italy ) is an Italian football youth team coach and former player.

Baresi was brought by his older brother Giuseppe for a trial in Inter's youth team, but was rejected.

Unconventional for an Italian defender trained in the catenaccio tradition, Baresi was an attacking defender who often assisted the team in counterattacks but without neglecting his defensive duties.

Except keeping Giuseppe Baresi and Daniele Bernazzani as backroom staff in the first team or in the youth system, as well as Marco Branca as one of the director, the team had changed from Rafael Benítez, Leonardo, Gasperini and most recently Ranieri in just 2 seasons.

During the team's peak, he was a key component of an almost insurmountable defence, playing alongside other club greats: Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta.

Baresi was nicknamed " Piscinin ", Milanese for " Little one ".

Baresi was selected for three World Cups for Italy, in 1982, 1990, and 1994.

Unfortunately for Baresi, his early international career coincided with the peak of Gaetano Scirea's stint as Italy's first-choice sweeper, and Baresi was continually left out of the squad.

Baresi was injured early in the tournament in the group match against Norway, and after emergency surgery, was able to return for the final against Brazil.

The second from Protasov was initially blocked, but quick reactions beat Franco Baresi to the ball to fire the second shot into the far corner for a 2 – 0 victory.

During the 1970s to early 1990s Italy became famous for their catenaccio, thus heralding a long line of world class defenders such as Virginio Rosetta, Pietro Rava, Carlo Parola, Giacinto Facchetti, Armando Picchi, Gaetano Scirea, Antonio Cabrini, Claudio Gentile, Franco Baresi, Giuseppe Bergomi, Paolo Maldini, Fabio Cannavaro and Alessandro Nesta.

He is best known for his role alongside Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini and Mauro Tassotti, forming one of the greatest defences in the Serie A and European football during the 90s.

Panucci had one of his best offensive seasons in 1995-96, scoring five goals, while helping to form the league's tightest defense alongside internationals Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini, and Alessandro Costacurta.

He is also the younger brother of Internazionale legend and current vice coach Giuseppe Baresi.

When the Azzuri crashed out to France in the 1986 tournament and Scirea retired, the mantle was passed to Baresi who returned to the side, a responsibility that become more poignant when Scirea was killed in a car accident aged 36, only months before Italy was to host the World Cup.

Thus, Baresi made his World Cup debut in 1990.

" Baresi missed the first penalty kick in the shootout, and with teammate Roberto Baggio missing the last penalty, Italy lost the first World Cup Final to be decided on penalties.

Baresi is one of six players to have won all three types of World Cup Medals, having won Gold in 1982, Bronze in 1990, and Silver in 1994.

Baresi was also a member of the Italian squad that finished fourth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Baresi is one of the few players who have won all domestic club, international club and national honours, and doing so all with his native country.

Indeed, even today, many " Baresi " are still unaware of what happened and why.

Among his teammates at that club were compatriots Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard, along with Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi.

The back four that included Maldini and fellow long-timers Franco Baresi, Alessandro Costacurta and Mauro Tassotti is widely considered one of European football's most formidable defensive quartets of the 1990s.

After Gallienus was assassinated outside Milan in the summer of 268 in a plot led by high officers in his army, Claudius was proclaimed emperor and headed to Rome to establish his rule.

In May 2006 a team of scientists led by Dr. Luigi Naldini and Dr. Brian Brown from the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy ( HSR-TIGET ) in Milan, Italy reported a breakthrough for gene therapy in which they developed a way to prevent the immune system from rejecting a newly delivered gene.

In Milan, Venice and Florence the small city-state governments led to the development of the earliest forms of capitalism.

Milan Kučan, elected President of the Yugoslav Republic of Slovenia in 1990, led his country to independence in 1991.

It also led to a flurry of railway construction that had started under Austrian partronage ( Venice – Milan ; Milan – Monza ) that made Milan the rail hub of northern Italy.

Subsequently, Mussolini led his March on Rome starting from Milan.

This period of prosperity and the new international image of the city led many journalists to call the metropolis " Milano da bere ", literally " Milan to drink ".

The historian Malchus maintains that in 480 Glycerius was a member of the conspiracy that led to Emperor Nepos ' death and thus sought the favour of Odoacer ; however, the news of Glycerius ' appointment to the prestigious rank of Bishop of Milan, which would support the theory of the collaboration between Glycerius and Odoacer, is usually considered a rumor.

This process reached its apex in the 12th and 13th centuries, when different Lombard Leagues formed by allied cities of Lombardy, usually led by Milan, managed to defeat the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick I, at Legnano, and his grandson Frederick II, at Parma.

Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan at the " Summit " recording, Milan, Italy 1974 .</ br > Photograph by Pino Presti Piazzolla, after leaving Troilo's orchestra in the 1940s, led numerous ensembles beginning with the 1946 Orchestra, the 1955 Octeto Buenos Aires, the 1960 " First Quintet ", the 1971 Conjunto 9 (" Noneto "), the 1978 " Second Quintet " and the 1989 New Tango Sextet.

In the political division between Guelphs and Ghibellines that characterizes the Italian Middle Ages, Pavia was traditionally Ghibelline, a position that was as much supported by the rivalry with Milan as it was a mark of the defiance of the Emperor that led the Lombard League against the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who was attempting to reassert long-dormant Imperial influence over Italy.

In 1342 however, the menace of the Solaro counteroffensive led the new rulers to submit to Luchino Visconti of Milan.

After Gallienus was assassinated outside Milan in the summer of 268 in a plot led by high officers in his army, Claudius was proclaimed emperor and headed to Rome to establish his rule.

These concessions also were due to the invasion of the Papal States by the former Papal condottiero Niccolò Fortebraccio and the troops of Filippo Maria Visconti led by Niccolò Piccinino in retaliation for Eugene's support to Florence and Venice against Milan ( see also Wars in Lombardy ).

* Mediolanum ( modern Milan ), stronghold of the Gallic tribe of the Insubres ( led by Viridomarus ), falls to Roman legions in Lombardy ( led by consul, Marcus Claudius Marcellus ), in the Battle of Clastidium.

The resolutions were signed by 76 bishops, led by Laurentius of Milan and Peter of Ravenna.

In the 1655 campaign, he led an invasion of the Duchy of Milan, though already ill with malaria, and besieged Pavia, where the attack went so badly that he was forced to leave his sick-bed to take direct control of the siege, and even then it had to be raised after nearly two months of fruitless effort.

" In the 1655 campaign, he led an invasion of the Duchy of Milan, though already ill with malaria, and besieged Pavia, where the attack went so badly that he was forced to leave his sick-bed to take direct control of the siege, and even then it had to be raised after nearly two months of fruitless effort.

During the summer of 2008, a club takeover was agreed between Cazzola and an American-based consortium ; this was, however, cancelled in the end, following disagreements between the parties, and the club was successively sold to a local group led by new chairman Francesca Menarini, who thus became the second female chairman in the whole Serie A. Arrigoni was confirmed as head coach by the new group, and the start appeared to be particularly impressive, with a surprising 2 – 1 win at San Siro against Milan thanks to a winning goal scored by Francesco Valiani.

After a trophyless two years at Fiorentina, Eriksson moved back to Benfica for a second stint in 1989, where he led the Portuguese side to the final of the European Cup ( losing to Milan 1 – 0 ) in 1990, and another League title in 1991.

Troyes has been in existence since the Roman era, as Augustobona Tricassium, which stood at the hub of numerous highways, primarily the Via Agrippa which led north to Reims and south to Langres and eventually to Milan ; other Roman routes from Troyes led to Poitiers, Autun and Orléans.