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Paolo

Maldini

902 official matches played and 26 trophies won in twenty-five years in Milan jersey. There are no words to describe the football career of Paolo Maldini who made his debut as a very young boy in Udine, on 20 January 1985, with coach Nils Liedholm on the bench. A triumphal ride initiated with Arrigo Sacchi and continued with Capello. In 1997 he inherited the captain’s armband from Baresi and lifted new trophies with Zaccheroni and Ancelotti. The apotheosis came on 28 May 2003, when after 40 years from Milan’s first European Champion Clubs’ Cup win, he lifted, just like his father Cesare, the Champions League trophy at Old Trafford in Manchester.