Italian defense in the early 2000s was on an absurdely different level. It was already difficult to get rid of Gattuso. Once you let him behind, you had to deal with Cannavaro, Nesta and Maldini. But even if you managed to get past them, you would find yourself facing no one less than Buffon. It's ridiculous, when you think about it.
90s even tougher. 80s it will be good you stay not injured after the match. 90s is the stage that fifa need to change rules to help strikers. 00s actually already start going downhill.
The match he's talking about is the only time Giggs, Keane, Scholes, Ronaldo, Rooney and Van Nistelrooy started together. And they couldn't score. Not a bad front 6 but that Milan defence was incredible.
@@wolfswinkel8906 Legendary players, but not exactly a legendary team. It was 2004-05, one of Fergie's few trophyless seasons, although to be fair we really should've taken home the FA Cup that season after practically battering Arsenal for a full 120 mins. But no doubt this was a lull in between greater Man Utd teams.
@@davidlogan8905 Yeah Cristiano and Rooney were still young and learning, put their 07/08 versions on that team with these other man dem and United wins imo. Still stung until the final though. Kinda ashamed now I was supporting Liverpool lol. What a final though.
@@casperg7700 But that chance only existed because someone else already made a mistake, meaning that it's redundant at that point. (At least that's what people that believe the original statement would believe.)
@@CentaurMoe That doesn’t change anything. Mistakes can be made and it still ends 0-0. if a striker misses an open goal opportunity where he should have scored but didnt, thats a mistake and it still ends 0-0.
in 2006 the Italians won a world championship without conceding a goal from play from their opponents, the two goals conceded were an own goal, and the penalty of zizou.
@@samdefore2692 yea is true against australia it was a big dive. The penalty France get in the final was a dive too at it could cost us the trophy....... But what i can say is that Italy in 2006 attacked a lot. Star team with full of stars and experience in every part of the pitch. Inzaghi and Del Piero in the bench lol !! Totti playing with one leg etc etc. We beat Germany in the semifinal with 4 forward in the extra time. 12 goals scored 2 goals conceded. Since 2006 Italy is different. It improved is game in attack. We don't cry as before, we don't dive as before but everybody still hate us for the past. Never mind who cares. One think is for sure. Italy knows how to soffer and turn a game in his favour even if the opponent is stronger. This is how you reach 10 final and win 6.
Milan team of the early 90s was one of the best of all time, brings a tear to my eyes to think of the players that were stars in your team then. Rijkaard, Gullit and van Basten, also the Italians weren't half bad either.. but I was a huge fan of Dejan Savicevic and Boban. Definitely one of the strongest teams of all time.
@@intermaths1128 we lost in final at penalty😂 🤡we beat all Italians team ass multiples times. We ruled the game. Doubled the Scudetti 😂😂Shut up joke team. In Italy everybody laugh at u 😂 😂 looserrs
@@dellecapacitailcoraggiofis7536 Inter UCL winners 2010, Rubentus couldn't even get past quarter finals 😂😂 you didn't rule anything...joke team who could only win within the national borders thanks to the referee 😂😂😂
Seedorf is very underrated. The crowd acted like they didn’t know who he is. Pirlo is a genius but I wouldn’t say Seedorf was any less of a player, but then again that Milan team was a well oiled machine.
@@billieboybuddha4238 bullshit. He was unbelivable, huge player, that's why he got the respect and the prise of every other football legend. I Watched every game at his first year at Juve, when he was already 33...he was so dominant it was ridicolous, the guy litterally won games by himself. Main reason in the field of Juve team passed to be a middle table one to destroy the league.
@@manoliswec5674 in a way he was, otherwise he would've held the record for player with the most caps for the Dutch team, but some coaches ( like Van Basten ) thought they could do without him.
The also had the hound, that would chase down EVERYTHING Massimo Ambrossini.. He wouldn't stop chasing down everything. They often put him on when they were protecting a lead
They will always have if they'll keep their football tactics...if the new generations of coaches will think its an old school approach of the football and will try to play a positive football,attacking more, than that might change their defensive strenght in the future...brasil is trying something like this now,after that disaster home against Germany,they finally understood that you can't have 10 offensive players and they try to apply to all their representatives teams a more balanced style...
@@RedzNusantara Bastoni, Bonucci, Romagnoli, Toloi etc. They problem with them is they don’t have elite fantasista anymore. Totti, Del Piero, Cassano, Pirlo etc they have gone.
I met Nesta casually walking with his gf on the streets of downtown Milan. Even though i'm an Inter fan I asked him for an autograph on my electricity bill (it was the only piece of paper I had). What a gentleman !
@@gm2407 No, I don’t think he ever did. He’s an extremely aggressive but it’s mostly due to him being passionate of the sport. Now Marco Materazzi on the other hand… 🤣🤣🤣 That guy was just retared lol. Lord knows who even let him in as a pro lol
@@MikeCrawch I remember Giggs breaking his cheek bone in a champions league game mid 2000s against an Italian side, could have sworn it was Gattuso. Materazzi I remember playing at Everton in 1999 before he went back to Italy. So blame the Everton manager of the day Walter Smith. I think he wasnt getting playing time in Italy so he came to England and went back to Italy as the national side had a thing about not picking players playing outside of Italy at the time.
@@gm2407 The only time Giggs ever went against Gatusso was Round of 16 in 2005 and Semi-Final in 2007. And I don’t recall Giggs breaking anyone bone in the match except for a hard tackle to Káka and Káka grabbed him by the neck for it.
The same! From 1994 when R.Baggio missed the penalty and Italy lost in the final, I started supporting Italy as if they were my national team. 27 years and counting. Italy has a chance (again) to win the Euros.
He starts naming them: "Cafu, Stam, Nesta, Maldini" And my thought is "no way, I would get past them with a ball"...then he said "Gattuso" and "I'm like "I would be happy to be alive after playng against him"
Seedorf is one of the most powerfull atacking midfielders of all time. It was impossible to take a ball from him, what a legs he had, Mirko cro cop legs 😂😂💪🏻💪🏻
He's a true professionist, a real champion. So amazing the respect that he has for his fellow competitors. I really liked the applause when he named Pirlo. The Maestro is somenthing special.
@@TheProbewizard not really, he's solidified as one of the best midfielders of all time, that's not up for debate and it won't change regardless of what kind of disaster could happen at Juventus.
I really think that AC Milan team was one if not the best teams to ever play! Its so sad seeing whats happened to them recently, they belong at the top :(
♫♫ football world already mention them as invincible. but that was that Sacchi side who won champion back to back. Madrid did it too, winning UCL 3 times a row, but still no one call them as the invincible. Ajax did it too, three times a row in the old model of champion league, and there are two other team (I forget what team it is, may be Bayern). But sacchi's side considered as the invicible and managed to mark that decade as theirs ♫♫
Ya but maldini was still unbelievable at that age he won it 2 years later with Milan again at like 39. Nesta was only 27 or 28 cafu was unreal then and stam wasn't what he was at united but still very good. They also had seedorf gattuso pirlo kaKa and Shevchenko Crespo inzaghi rui Costa L. What the hell happened to AC Milan
@@jericho9653 It's hard to stay great unless you're in Real or Barca situation, or more extreme : Bayern. Liverpool was a force back in 70s and 80s (cmiiw) and see what happened. They won continental cups in 2001&2005 but couldn't get past Arsenal and United.
@@iganpparamarta8813 but Milan were great for more than just the 2000s, they won it twice in the 80s and got to another 3 finals in a row in the 90s. They won it twice in the 60s and again I think in the 70s. Your saying Madrid or barca situation but Madrid had not reached a European cup final for 30 years until they won it again in 98 United the same until they won it in 99 and people always saying now how Barcelona have gone in decline but barca are not a traditionally steeped European club as Madrid Milan or liverpool are or Munich. All those teams were always winning in Europe through every decade where ad barca won it for the first time in 92 I think and didn't win it again until 2006 and after that they won it another 3 times so they really only had a good great spell from 06 onwards. There a great club but not a great in terms of tradition as Madrid Milan Munich and Liverpool are
Milan of 90s were far better than this team he is talking about.I wish Italian government change their policy regarding stadium so that there are no hurdles for teams to own their stadia.Once they own their stadium revenue will improve and they can reach past glory.
And they could substitute one of them for Serginho, in case of having to play more offensive. This left back (former leftwing midfielder) was so fast I was under the impression TV was playing at 2X speed.
You can say whatever you want about Italian style football but it has brought them a lot of success, both in their club-football as with their national team. More success than the Netherlands with their offensive style of play. And it hurts to say that because I’m Dutch.
You are a population of 17 million people vs 60+ millions of italy. You guys achieved a lot for a small country and most importantly you changed how the game is played, you should be proud. -an italian
I think one of the beauties of football is how much different it is in various countries. The total football of the dutch, the physical presence of the english, the tiki taka of the spanish, the defensive pragmatism of italians, the wonders of the brazilians. It enriches the game and makes it always new and interesting. Here in Italy, we hold the dutch football in great esteem, and Van Basten is still loved; even if our styles are so different, we can still appreciate each other. :)
@@ChrisMcLaren666 what does that have to do with “style of play”, no one is saying they have to have quality players every tournament of the last century. Italy’s population is actually just under 60 million and second oldest after Japan. Italy is also one of the youngest nations in the world, unification happened in the late 19 century and they had a lot of disadvantages for a decade after second World War. Second, Italy’s unlike say France or Dutch aren’t filling their teams 80% with first generation migrants. France’s population is greater than Italy’s and their first World Cup was 1998, with half the team made up oh non french descent. If you look at football countries Uruguay and Argentina many of their greatest players are of Italian lineage from Messi to Maradona, to Real Madrid’s greatest player, won 5 Champions trophies, Argentine Italian DeStefano.
@@samdefore2692 did you tag the wrong person? I don't understand why you're telling me these things, i just pointed out that the Netherlands achieved a fair amount of success for a small country like theirs.
Bravo Ganjar !!! Very correct you were !!! Nice to see that !!! Bravo !!! Inter had a good era too and thsart was amaizing 1998 with original Ronaldo ... or 2010 ! I love correct comments for another side ! Bravo and Grazie !!! But let me say : FORZA MILAN !!! ❤❤🖤🖤❤❤🖤🖤
Such a wonderful speech from a wonderful player! His expressions when he tells about Milan are really amazing and genuine, thank you for the great video! Great AC Milan memories :)))
Nistelroy was legend. I never support man united but he was absolutely amazing , I will never forget him. Respect mate , miss watching your skills and goals. God bless
As a young player in the 90s I played an international tournament with our club in Denmark. And we played against an Italian youth squad, guess their senior team played in 4th league or so. I felt like playing against Maldini junior, Baresis nephew, Gattusos neighbour and Nestas sister. We lost 1:0. :) Btw it was tactical perfection of them and they were clever as f...respect from Germany! :)
All those great footballers. But the football was friggin boring. The 2003 CL final Milan-Juve was the worst match ever. With the here named big shots in 2005, against PSV eindhovn Milan were lucky to reach the final. In the 2nd semi final game PSV was a lot better with 3 goals, but Milan had a counter goal in the 90+1st minute. (but that is not enough against Italians , as Ruud mentions here ..)
I (German) loved that era when AC Milan was on top of European Football and Italy had 3 amazing teams with Milan, Inter and Juve. Maybe 4 if you want to count in Roma. The italian league got trashtalked quite a bit for its defensive tactics but I always loved it.
Same here. I'm a compatriot of yours and I was always fond of Italian top-shelf teams, especially Juve and Inter. Made for quite an interesting childhood (born in 1991, became a football maniac in 1996) and continues to this very day!
There was more than just the 3 teams. Lazio were the Man City of today, Fiorentina always so exciting to watch and Parma were the Chelsea. Best period in league football
Concordo. Era davvero mostruoso. Sapeva fare tutto, calciava con entrambi i piedi, sapeva battere le punizioni, aveva il tiro da lontano e sapeva giocate in quasi tutte le posizioni del centrocampo e atleticamente era molto forte. Nonostante questo era meno appariscente rispetto ad altri suoi compagni (per esempio Kakà). Inspiegabilmente risaltava meno. È un giocatore che ho davvero adorato
Well said, that also explains why many Serie A matches end with a 0 - 0 result because most of them are focused too much on defense rather than offence.
ma vero !!! non sono milanista, ma chi ama il calcio...ama il calcio ...e quel milan E il calcio !!! ..vedere tipi come Calhanoglu indossare il 10 al milan ! ... declino ! ..anche la societá che glielo permette
@@huberthagele288 Beh, la verità è che il calcio italiano è di nuovo in aumento. I grandi investitori stanno entrando nel campionato e i giocatori vorrebbero rimanere.
As longtime AC Milan fan who has as his fav edition the 2005 one and Ruud as my fav CF after R9 and Sheva, this is truly special. Ruud is an authentic legend. The real and unique heir of Marco to my eyes.
Seedorf deserved just as much of a response as the others...speaks to the lack of recognition he’s received from casual football fans. Those that know the game know though
@@temudjin38 he was, two of our coaches just did not call him and there was a lot of unrest around him. People were saying that he was too selfish and that his mindset would unbalance the dressingroom etc. But nobody denied his skill as a player.
Hearing a Dutchman being fair and kind and speaking respectfully of Italians and their working in a team unit. That's music to my ears. Respect to you, Ruud! (i'm Italian)
@hfc sorry i'm replying fast but speaking of soccer i think that is due to taking sides on one's team (they argue a kick each other's a--es just as well among Italians, like they do in any country really, I suppose). We don't have anything against the Dutch as a nation... About my own comment, I was referring to the fact many Dutch look down on Italy, maybe because of stereotypes - just like the Dutch are said to be greedy etc. (but not in Italy, anyway)... not taking it personal but from what I saw around myself in the NL and in years in the UK, many Dutch are rude especially the women, and I mean, putting aside the fact that rude acts in one culture are normal in another.
Example: they (and the English) always go on about how they're so much better, more civil, and different from the Germans. But look how the English representatives and people behaved at Wembley: booing the national anthem first, then refusing the 2nd place medals and leaving the stadium before the end of the ceremony. Even the Royals and entourage didn't greet and just shake hands with our President, and they were next to him. They behave exactly like the Na&is in their own films - spoiled, antisportive, unfair (in the attitude), not willing to just admit they lost, and to a nation they (wrongly) see as culturally, if not ethnically, inferior... (whereas the Germans are in fact often very well-meaning and kind to everyone...)
I do agree with everything he has said. Those days it was really hard to play against the Italian, wither it was the national team or the clubs. You can’t let them scored first, because if they do, it’s over.
Well you are right, back then football was about passion and not only money. I don’t feel football is the same anymore after 2015. It’s still good but not the same.
Life a friend of mine, fan of the old school Serie A Italiana from 2000's said, Italian teams didn't defend a lot! They used to play on the defence! There is a difference!!!
Italians understand that a goal isn’t what the other team did well but what your team did wrong. Also football is like sex, anticipation of a goal is the foreplay and the goal is the climax... everyone knows good foreplay better then climax especially the quick fast ones.
Thuram, Parma, Desailly Milan, Blanc Inter , Viera and Deschamps Juve...... we should ask these players in what part of their career they notice an improve in their game.....
After he named all the back 4 I was like, oh god…. How can you score against that. And when he mentions Gattu, I was like oh god, how can you still alive after that.
@@ClearForCr7 because they are shit at it. Every country has 1-2 great defenders you can name in the past 30 years, you take Italy and there are 10-15 names.
@@lorenzo4819 that's because Italy and Italian teams are loosing their identity by trying to copy Guardiola and that kind of style. We should definitely take a look to our history and learn from it, instead of trying to be someone that we'll never be.
My friend Ruud , in Italy we are very famous not just about defence ... remember in that Milan you just mentioned .. there was also Kaka , Inzaghi , Shevchenko , Crespo Sedoorf... Well just a few player that they know how to score ! So not just defence !
He is talking about 2004-05. Played Milan home and away and it wasn't just Ruud who was like a headless chicken. None of the man Utd players got much of a touch or opportunity. Milan won 1-0 in both legs, but that was being polite. That Milan team was anything but defensive. With seedorf, pirlo, kaka, sheva, inzaghi and crespo, that was one hell of an attacking team.
Nations have cyclical success in European football. I’m from UK, and our clubs are currently enjoying that. I love the different styles of each country and how they combat opponents formations and their “modus operandi” that is unique to each nation. I admire the technical approach and pressing game, derived from patiently applied pressure by Italian teams. The economical and clinical precision of the “Bundasliga”. The flair, and flowing passing game in Spain. I admit to bias, but feel that the English game is unequalled in terms of sheer excitement and drama. Barcelona v Liverpool. Milan v Liverpool. Spurs v Ajax. I think you’ll agree that they were a few of the most dramatic games in recent years. The English game is an unpredictable mixture of physical strength and speed, with an explosive dimension that is hard to contain when played at its best.
Italian defense in the early 2000s was on an absurdely different level. It was already difficult to get rid of Gattuso. Once you let him behind, you had to deal with Cannavaro, Nesta and Maldini. But even if you managed to get past them, you would find yourself facing no one less than Buffon. It's ridiculous, when you think about it.
90s even tougher. 80s it will be good you stay not injured after the match. 90s is the stage that fifa need to change rules to help strikers. 00s actually already start going downhill.
This is why i love FENOMENO and Ronaldinho.
and ronaldo gave them all nightmares, what a phenomenon
Hmm not really, all that was needed was to hire Byron Moreno as the referee and any team would win against them 😂
If maldini, nesta and cannavaro is the locked gate, gatusso is the dog who stand in front of the gate biting anyone who wants to get in😂
The match he's talking about is the only time Giggs, Keane, Scholes, Ronaldo, Rooney and Van Nistelrooy started together. And they couldn't score. Not a bad front 6 but that Milan defence was incredible.
That was Ferguson's legendary team. Oh and then Milan had the livewire Andriy Shevchenko.
And to think liverpool scored 3 goals against them in 6 minutes. Incredible stuff!
@@wolfswinkel8906 Legendary players, but not exactly a legendary team. It was 2004-05, one of Fergie's few trophyless seasons, although to be fair we really should've taken home the FA Cup that season after practically battering Arsenal for a full 120 mins. But no doubt this was a lull in between greater Man Utd teams.
@@davidlogan8905 Yeah Cristiano and Rooney were still young and learning, put their 07/08 versions on that team with these other man dem and United wins imo. Still stung until the final though. Kinda ashamed now I was supporting Liverpool lol. What a final though.
Not a bad team at all.
One important Italian journalist once said
A perfect game ends 0 to 0 because that means nobody made any mistakes
Gianni Brera.
A perfect world cup will yield no winner in his stance
A striker can make a mistake by missing a chance
@@casperg7700 But that chance only existed because someone else already made a mistake, meaning that it's redundant at that point. (At least that's what people that believe the original statement would believe.)
@@CentaurMoe That doesn’t change anything. Mistakes can be made and it still ends 0-0. if a striker misses an open goal opportunity where he should have scored but didnt, thats a mistake and it still ends 0-0.
All Ruud had to do was say "Pirlo" and immediately there is a round of applause, that's when you know you're a legendary player.
to pirlo all you have to say is park and he will start crying
No question about it...
Pirlo is the best
@@sunritroykarmakar4406 lol no Park got lucky that game
it was more like wit that insane defence they had gatusso and pirlo in mid... thats insane
in 2006 the Italians won a world championship without conceding a goal from play from their opponents, the two goals conceded were an own goal, and the penalty of zizou.
The penalty was for a dive too, Italian defenders didn’t even touch him.
@@samdefore2692 yea is true against australia it was a big dive. The penalty France get in the final was a dive too at it could cost us the trophy....... But what i can say is that Italy in 2006 attacked a lot. Star team with full of stars and experience in every part of the pitch. Inzaghi and Del Piero in the bench lol !! Totti playing with one leg etc etc. We beat Germany in the semifinal with 4 forward in the extra time. 12 goals scored 2 goals conceded. Since 2006 Italy is different. It improved is game in attack. We don't cry as before, we don't dive as before but everybody still hate us for the past. Never mind who cares. One think is for sure. Italy knows how to soffer and turn a game in his favour even if the opponent is stronger. This is how you reach 10 final and win 6.
zizou penalty barely went in. we all knew France was carried by the referee.
@@markg2307 2006 >>>>2020
But in the italian defense of 2006 there aren't Nesta and Maldini
Zambrotta Cannavaro Materazzi Grosso
Imagine thinking the defence is gonna be impossible to get through and then you just see Gattuso aswell.
He didn't mentioned a world class goalkeeper course he didn't even got to see him toching the ball
@@aidynbektolegenov8969 😅🤣😅😅
And then you have to beat one of the best goalies Dida
Gattuso, harassed players in the midfield!
😂😂😂😂man that must be disheartening
Milan fans punching air rn😔😓
Like me...almost crying. But we'll be back again at the top, soon or later :)
Football fans
@@Dimibox80 much much later
I'm not crying, I've something in my eyes
ac milan fan here. can totally confirm
As a lifelong Milan fan, this brings literal tears to my eyes. Also, it’s a shame Rud never played for Milan. We love Dutch players!!
Yeah. I so badly wanted him to join Milan back then
@@onialex64 glad he did not.
Crying? Ffs man up
@@krazejhahalet it be bro, whats the point of you saying this. You're only spreading unnesacery negativity ✌️
Milan team of the early 90s was one of the best of all time, brings a tear to my eyes to think of the players that were stars in your team then. Rijkaard, Gullit and van Basten, also the Italians weren't half bad either.. but I was a huge fan of Dejan Savicevic and Boban. Definitely one of the strongest teams of all time.
That AC Milan team was literally 11 legendary GOATS on the field all at once.
Juventus kicked their asses pretty easily in those years
@@dellecapacitailcoraggiofis7536
Rubentus couldn't even get past quarter finals in UCL in those years 😂😂😂
@@intermaths1128 we lost in final at penalty😂 🤡we beat all Italians team ass multiples times. We ruled the game. Doubled the Scudetti 😂😂Shut up joke team. In Italy everybody laugh at u 😂 😂 looserrs
@@dellecapacitailcoraggiofis7536
Inter UCL winners 2010, Rubentus couldn't even get past quarter finals 😂😂 you didn't rule anything...joke team who could only win within the national borders thanks to the referee 😂😂😂
@@intermaths1128 come back here to talk when u are 15 years old 👶
Seedorf is very underrated. The crowd acted like they didn’t know who he is. Pirlo is a genius but I wouldn’t say Seedorf was any less of a player, but then again that Milan team was a well oiled machine.
Seedorf is one of the best all around player in the history of football and the most underrated player ever
Pirlo was very overrated. Just a product of the modern society where they hype everything and people dont have their own opinion anymore
Pirlo is never overrated he is a talented and poetic player with a huge brain
@@edmondsimon9220 Talented yes, pretty good player yes, smart and player with decent amount of vision yes, overrated yes
@@billieboybuddha4238 bullshit. He was unbelivable, huge player, that's why he got the respect and the prise of every other football legend. I Watched every game at his first year at Juve, when he was already 33...he was so dominant it was ridicolous, the guy litterally won games by himself. Main reason in the field of Juve team passed to be a middle table one to destroy the league.
Criminal how underrated Seedorf was and is.
he wasnt
@@manoliswec5674 in a way he was, otherwise he would've held the record for player with the most caps for the Dutch team, but some coaches ( like Van Basten ) thought they could do without him.
Seedorf was never underrated, what are you on about? Everyone wish Seedorf is on their team
@@wh7824 except for some Dutch coaches
He won 3 Champions League trophies with 3 different teams and somehow people still think he wasn't as important for the midfield as pirlo and gattuso
Maldini Stam Nesta Cafu
Oh my god.
Gattuso..don't forget gattuso😊..i'd just tell my coach i'm injured..
with gatuso in front .. the teams in those days wow
The also had the hound, that would chase down EVERYTHING Massimo Ambrossini.. He wouldn't stop chasing down everything. They often put him on when they were protecting a lead
Buffon Cannavaro Sensini with D. Baggio e Boghossian in front
@Oh_ Norm yes sir
Italy have always had some of the best defenders in the world
@@RedzNusantara Yes
They will always have if they'll keep their football tactics...if the new generations of coaches will think its an old school approach of the football and will try to play a positive football,attacking more, than that might change their defensive strenght in the future...brasil is trying something like this now,after that disaster home against Germany,they finally understood that you can't have 10 offensive players and they try to apply to all their representatives teams a more balanced style...
@@RedzNusantara Chiellini?
Not anymore ask Atalanta that score three goals every game minimum
@@RedzNusantara Bastoni, Bonucci, Romagnoli, Toloi etc. They problem with them is they don’t have elite fantasista anymore. Totti, Del Piero, Cassano, Pirlo etc they have gone.
I met Nesta casually walking with his gf on the streets of downtown Milan.
Even though i'm an Inter fan I asked him for an autograph on my electricity bill (it was the only piece of paper I had).
What a gentleman !
Gatusso was a great player. It is an honour he played for year in the Scottish League.
he there learned how to be a fighter
He told a story where gazza shat in his socks when he was at rangers, and met his wife there, who's dad owned an Italian restaurant in Glasgow
@@mrjonni3684 joe Jordon would have filled him in given a chance
A bunch of defensive maniacs providing the perfect cover for pirlo and kaka..mmm,perfection..
Maniacs indeed.
let in 3 against Liverpool in the final.
@@footyball66 won it back two years later.
shevchenko in front
@@subrahmaniancv5817 and Crespo!!
Respect to the Italians and theirs "Gods of Defence"...
Stam is Dutch! 🤪
Grazie
Potresti farmi la traduzione ahah
@@lucascalco1353 ha detto :rispetto per gli italiani e i loro "dii della difesa"
@@giovannidistasi9844 Grazie
When he mentioned Gattuso “I’m gonna kill you when you get the ball”.
Yeap, that’s Gattuso alright 😂
hahaha
Didn't he break Giggs' cheek bone in one of the matches in that tie?
@@gm2407
No,
I don’t think he ever did.
He’s an extremely aggressive but it’s mostly due to him being passionate of the sport.
Now Marco Materazzi on the other hand… 🤣🤣🤣
That guy was just retared lol.
Lord knows who even let him in as a pro lol
@@MikeCrawch I remember Giggs breaking his cheek bone in a champions league game mid 2000s against an Italian side, could have sworn it was Gattuso. Materazzi I remember playing at Everton in 1999 before he went back to Italy. So blame the Everton manager of the day Walter Smith. I think he wasnt getting playing time in Italy so he came to England and went back to Italy as the national side had a thing about not picking players playing outside of Italy at the time.
@@gm2407
The only time Giggs ever went against Gatusso was Round of 16 in 2005 and Semi-Final in 2007. And I don’t recall Giggs breaking anyone bone in the match except for a hard tackle to Káka and Káka grabbed him by the neck for it.
4 times world champions, 2 times Euro... Forza Italia sempre
I not a Italian but I support Italian national team for the past 30 year and Roberto baggio is still my favourite player of all time.
The same! From 1994 when R.Baggio missed the penalty and Italy lost in the final, I started supporting Italy as if they were my national team. 27 years and counting. Italy has a chance (again) to win the Euros.
@@povilas007 hope they win tonight
@@povilas007 They won :) we all cheered for them
Del Piero 's era was not that bad...
@@Salazar777 Totti was better than Piero
Milan 2004-2005 is the best team all time
Dida, Cafu, Stam, Nesta, Maldini, Pirlo, Gattuso, Seedorf, Kaka, Shevchenko, Crespo (Inzaghi)
No word
Nah the Milan team in the 90s was better. Back to Back Champions League titles, with Ruud Guilt, Van Basten, Maldini, Baresi, and Rijkaard
@@TheKennyboy92 and with Donadoni, Ancellotti, Tassotti, Costacurta 🙂
Ruud parla come se non ci fossero attaccanti o player capaci di fare gol!
@@andreapizzone5379 ti sei rivolto a me? Comunque non ho capito cosa vuoi dire
And yet they lost to traore baros and dudek
He starts naming them: "Cafu, Stam, Nesta, Maldini" And my thought is "no way, I would get past them with a ball"...then he said "Gattuso" and "I'm like "I would be happy to be alive after playng against him"
Haahhaa I was thinking the same when I heard gattuso hahah
Horrible english man
And by the way they had Clarence also 😂
@@bernardosegala9452 we don't care
@@Sliwowsky Your written English is great.
At first, it's almost like he's speaking at a trial.
"The Italian defense never rests, Your Honour."
Seedorf one of the most underrated players in football so sad no body talks about him much.
Seedorf is one of the most powerfull atacking midfielders of all time. It was impossible to take a ball from him, what a legs he had, Mirko cro cop legs 😂😂💪🏻💪🏻
He wasn’t underrated at all. You’re just throwing meaningless words around
era de mis favoritos de Carletto
Just listening to Ruud talk about the legends of Milan brings tears to my eyes... Brings back a lot of precious and unforgettable memories
He's a true professionist, a real champion. So amazing the respect that he has for his fellow competitors.
I really liked the applause when he named Pirlo. The Maestro is somenthing special.
PIRLO!!!!
yeah he was a top player. It's a shame that now his career is ruined by what he's doing at juventus
@@TheProbewizard not really, he's solidified as one of the best midfielders of all time, that's not up for debate and it won't change regardless of what kind of disaster could happen at Juventus.
@@jaasonjones4419 As a fellow Italian (and most importantly bresciano) I really hope so
pirlo is crap
I really think that AC Milan team was one if not the best teams to ever play! Its so sad seeing whats happened to them recently, they belong at the top :(
We are back bro, Maldini is sorting it out. Lot changed for us the last year
@@Bubajumba You'll do absolutely nuttin
I'm an inter milan fan, but I think you're right, what a faboulus team they were in the 2000's!!!
best team ever is real madrid with prime cr7 when they won 3 CL in a row
♫♫ football world already mention them as invincible. but that was that Sacchi side who won champion back to back.
Madrid did it too, winning UCL 3 times a row, but still no one call them as the invincible. Ajax did it too, three times a row in the old model of champion league, and there are two other team (I forget what team it is, may be Bayern). But sacchi's side considered as the invicible and managed to mark that decade as theirs ♫♫
When Seedorf is an afterthought and Kaka doesn't even get a mention , you know how insane that team was.
And if that's not enough we got Rui Costa too
What about Cringechenko or Dilda, insane team.
Kaka? Lol! He is his own team.
es que todos eran muy buenos
Kaka, Shevchenko and Crespo
VIVA ITALIA FROM SERBIAN PEOPLE!
Thanks. Forza Italia e Forza Serbia
Gay
Serbia strong brother
@@raybans8712 you?
Grazie 🤗
Past it's prime but formidable. Maldini, Stam, Nesta and Cafu are legendary! Best flat back 4 individuals in my lifetime to play together.
Ya but maldini was still unbelievable at that age he won it 2 years later with Milan again at like 39. Nesta was only 27 or 28 cafu was unreal then and stam wasn't what he was at united but still very good. They also had seedorf gattuso pirlo kaKa and Shevchenko Crespo inzaghi rui Costa L.
What the hell happened to AC Milan
@@jericho9653 It's hard to stay great unless you're in Real or Barca situation, or more extreme : Bayern. Liverpool was a force back in 70s and 80s (cmiiw) and see what happened. They won continental cups in 2001&2005 but couldn't get past Arsenal and United.
@@iganpparamarta8813 but Milan were great for more than just the 2000s, they won it twice in the 80s and got to another 3 finals in a row in the 90s. They won it twice in the 60s and again I think in the 70s. Your saying Madrid or barca situation but Madrid had not reached a European cup final for 30 years until they won it again in 98 United the same until they won it in 99 and people always saying now how Barcelona have gone in decline but barca are not a traditionally steeped European club as Madrid Milan or liverpool are or Munich. All those teams were always winning in Europe through every decade where ad barca won it for the first time in 92 I think and didn't win it again until 2006 and after that they won it another 3 times so they really only had a good great spell from 06 onwards. There a great club but not a great in terms of tradition as Madrid Milan Munich and Liverpool are
@@jericho9653 Cafu was over 34 something at the time
Milan of 90s were far better than this team he is talking about.I wish Italian government change their policy regarding stadium so that there are no hurdles for teams to own their stadia.Once they own their stadium revenue will improve and they can reach past glory.
Does anybody else drift off into nostalgia dreamland when Ruud is describing the Milan team?
Yeaaaa he seems really chill tbf
Tassotti - Baresi - Costacurta - Maldini
Cafu - Nesta - Stam - Maldini
The best defence ever just got even meaner 👍
And they could substitute one of them for Serginho, in case of having to play more offensive. This left back (former leftwing midfielder) was so fast I was under the impression TV was playing at 2X speed.
@Younes M16 😂😂😂 kid
Probably two best defences ever.
and today we have romagnoli....
Constant Zapata Yepes Zacarrdo
and the ballon d'or winner KAKà.. unbelievable team
@Oh_ Norm the didn’t even won the league
And Shevchenko too
@@luisaranda2436 Wow... no shit. Why that? They were so good...😒
@fknosf dahbfiqwfhi even Pippo & Rui Costa were benched on that match, imagine how great this Milan was
@Oh_ Norm I still don't know how Allegri managed to beat Barcelona with those clowns on the field 😂
You can say whatever you want about Italian style football but it has brought them a lot of success, both in their club-football as with their national team. More success than the Netherlands with their offensive style of play. And it hurts to say that because I’m Dutch.
You are a population of 17 million people vs 60+ millions of italy. You guys achieved a lot for a small country and most importantly you changed how the game is played, you should be proud.
-an italian
@@ChrisMcLaren666 Uruguay has two world cups with a population of 3.5 million citizens.
I think one of the beauties of football is how much different it is in various countries. The total football of the dutch, the physical presence of the english, the tiki taka of the spanish, the defensive pragmatism of italians, the wonders of the brazilians. It enriches the game and makes it always new and interesting. Here in Italy, we hold the dutch football in great esteem, and Van Basten is still loved; even if our styles are so different, we can still appreciate each other. :)
@@ChrisMcLaren666 what does that have to do with “style of play”, no one is saying they have to have quality players every tournament of the last century.
Italy’s population is actually just under 60 million and second oldest after Japan. Italy is also one of the youngest nations in the world, unification happened in the late 19 century and they had a lot of disadvantages for a decade after second World War. Second, Italy’s unlike say France or Dutch aren’t filling their teams 80% with first generation migrants. France’s population is greater than Italy’s and their first World Cup was 1998, with half the team made up oh non french descent. If you look at football countries Uruguay and Argentina many of their greatest players are of Italian lineage from Messi to Maradona, to Real Madrid’s greatest player, won 5 Champions trophies, Argentine Italian DeStefano.
@@samdefore2692 did you tag the wrong person? I don't understand why you're telling me these things, i just pointed out that the Netherlands achieved a fair amount of success for a small country like theirs.
I'm an Interista, but when he names that players... boy, what a great team Milan has back in the day.
Golden age of Serie A... I miss that.
-3 ❤️🖤
Bravo Ganjar !!! Very correct you were !!! Nice to see that !!! Bravo !!! Inter had a good era too and thsart was amaizing 1998 with original Ronaldo ... or 2010 !
I love correct comments for another side ! Bravo and Grazie !!! But let me say : FORZA MILAN !!! ❤❤🖤🖤❤❤🖤🖤
Love his honesty and transparency
Yes, very refreshing! Never heard him talk before and he seems to be a very cool guy
Lot of bullshit….great players did an amazing job in italy,so let him to speak,he was not so great
@@mauretto123 yeah right Van Nistelrooy wasn't so great, nice bait, now go watch some Golf
@@lolloa22 surely ,in Italy, he wouldn't done anything…too easy to speak like that….in england the defence is shit,spain,same….so,too easy
Politicians should Talk like him
What a team, what a team, one more time, WHAT A TEAM
Van Nistelroy had some post traumatic stress disorder from italian defence
Imagining having to train against Stam for club and country, you'd be frustrated as hell. Poor Van Nistelrooy
He speaks in such a calm and thoughtful way that I am really amazed. What an amazing person he seems to be.
That AC Milan was not only a great team, but also a legendary monster team..
2005 cl
@@laman012 2007 cl
@@theweknd6946 2007 UCL was not exactly the same team. The likes of Stam and Shevchenko was not there anymore.
Cafu was more like a rotation player.
Thinking now of that team,after hearing Ruud....omjc...
Dida,Cafu,Nesta,Stam,Maldini,Rino, Pirlo,Seedorf,Kaka,Sheva,Pippo...wtf....gives me chills...
Crespo
This Milan team was one of the best 11 of all time.
No one:
Italian teams: D E F E N S E
That's why they lose against the others European teams
@@Bndct_A Italy literally got 30 points out of 30 in the Euro 2020 qualifiers.
@@Bndct_A you are a french snich with an italian name
@@giulius_99 "italian defence" is not the defence of the National team
@@mattiaabbondi5858 snitch
I'm glad he mentioned Seedorf.... Seedorf was an absolute monster and doesn't get enough credit as one of the best midfielders in football history.
Such a wonderful speech from a wonderful player! His expressions when he tells about Milan are really amazing and genuine, thank you for the great video! Great AC Milan memories :)))
Nistelroy was legend. I never support man united but he was absolutely amazing , I will never forget him. Respect mate , miss watching your skills and goals. God bless
As a young player in the 90s I played an international tournament with our club in Denmark. And we played against an Italian youth squad, guess their senior team played in 4th league or so. I felt like playing against Maldini junior, Baresis nephew, Gattusos neighbour and Nestas sister. We lost 1:0. :) Btw it was tactical perfection of them and they were clever as f...respect from Germany! :)
Bruuuder dein english ist very good💪
What team did you play for :))
@@flugmodus4283 lol 😆 nein nein nein
@@flugmodus4283 interesting. Which club. Did you play for any other countries leagues
quando componi una squadra di football la prima cosa da fare è sistemare la difesa, senza una forte difesa non vinci niente
This Milan side made the champions league finals 3 times out of 5 seasons between 2003 and 2007 winning it twice. They really was a force.
That's a crazy era of serie A. And don't forget Juventus 3 consecutive finals but lost 2 though
United of 2008 made 3 Champions League finals. The 2 we lost were against Messi's Barcelona in their prime
All those great footballers. But the football was friggin boring. The 2003 CL final Milan-Juve was the worst match ever. With the here named big shots in 2005, against PSV eindhovn Milan were lucky to reach the final. In the 2nd semi final game PSV was a lot better with 3 goals, but Milan had a counter goal in the 90+1st minute.
(but that is not enough against Italians , as Ruud mentions here ..)
Ruud telling us his PTSD after the match againts AC Milan back then.
I (German) loved that era when AC Milan was on top of European Football and Italy had 3 amazing teams with Milan, Inter and Juve. Maybe 4 if you want to count in Roma. The italian league got trashtalked quite a bit for its defensive tactics but I always loved it.
Same here. I'm a compatriot of yours and I was always fond of Italian top-shelf teams, especially Juve and Inter. Made for quite an interesting childhood (born in 1991, became a football maniac in 1996) and continues to this very day!
Juve was never amazing at the level of Milan and Inter
@@rehan4223 they lost many finals but that doesn't mean they weren't amazing wtf
There was more than just the 3 teams. Lazio were the Man City of today, Fiorentina always so exciting to watch and Parma were the Chelsea. Best period in league football
by who? people who were jealous? how could you trash talk it with all those legends...ask those green people - where did Maradona play?
That back four was out of this world
Seedorf è stato un grandissimo...solo le logiche del commercio calcistico gli hanno impedito di vincere almeno un pallone d'oro...
Concordo. Era davvero mostruoso. Sapeva fare tutto, calciava con entrambi i piedi, sapeva battere le punizioni, aveva il tiro da lontano e sapeva giocate in quasi tutte le posizioni del centrocampo e atleticamente era molto forte. Nonostante questo era meno appariscente rispetto ad altri suoi compagni (per esempio Kakà). Inspiegabilmente risaltava meno. È un giocatore che ho davvero adorato
E un po la sua pigrizia. Non era uno che dava il 100% in ogni partita, altrimenti non ci sarebbe stata per nessuno. Classe incredibile.
Si spesso soprattutto in campionato giocava solo 20 minuti a partita
Dio che cazzo di gambe che aveva credo avesse più muscoli di una persona normale
Era mostruoso ma non da pallone d'oro. Ai suoi tempi erano altri a contendere il pallone d'oro...
@@vandamme84 Ha avuto una carriera molto più lunga di kakà. Uno dei più grandi centrocampisti mai visti. Un mix di tecnica e forza fisica.
And then that AC Milan added Thiago Silva. Him and Nesta together was something illegal for how good it was.
Too bad the rest of the squad had already started to regress
Dude.. Who the hell is Thiago Silva? xD
True, but they were going rapidly downhill by then.
@@jackmurphy6864 I know, I was a AC Milan fan. Nothing can stay forever.
@@cesco1990 the 2nd best defender in the world after sergio ramos
Well said, that also explains why many Serie A matches end with a 0 - 0 result because most of them are focused too much on defense rather than offence.
It's been a long, long time since that was the case. There's far more goals in Italy nowadays than England.
IIRC, from most to least goals per game in recent years:
1. BuLi
2. Serie A
3. EPL
4. La Liga
5. Ligue 1
As a Milan fan, this breaks my heart
ma vero !!! non sono milanista, ma chi ama il calcio...ama il calcio ...e quel milan E il calcio !!! ..vedere tipi come Calhanoglu indossare il 10 al milan ! ... declino ! ..anche la societá che glielo permette
@@huberthagele288 Beh, la verità è che il calcio italiano è di nuovo in aumento. I grandi investitori stanno entrando nel campionato e i giocatori vorrebbero rimanere.
@@obainomilano il declino e quando al Milan dai il 10 a un tipo qualsiasi ...come Calhanoglu...non parlavo del calcio italiano in generale
Legends have it that those defence were one of the greatest of all time
At least it was the most star studded defense of all time.
No defense can top Cafu-Stam-Nesta-Maldini
@@hsafootballworld1321 Tassotti - Baresi - Costacurta - Maldini was on the same level, if not even better.
@@GardEngebretsen agree with you on that
Such a pleasure hear these words from a legend of football!!! Respect
The 2004/05 AC Milan is the strongest AC Milan I've ever watched. It was mind blowing.
Certainly not. Van Basten, Baresi, Maldini and Gullit. Best team ever was.
@@waso778 read again my comment cause you clearly didn't get it
Ruud just became one of my faves with that interview. Love His honestly and love for the game
"they don't even wanna go forward"
Gigi Zambrotta: "Hold my world cup"
That was when Milan was AC Milan. Those guys were trouble to deal with.
7 finals in 17 years....
The Milan that I fell in love with
ITALY : 4 WORLD CUP, 2 EURO CHAMPIONSHIP, AC MILAN 7 CHAMPION LEAGUE, INTER 3 CHAMPION LEAGUE JUVE 2 CHAMPION LEAGUE, KEEP QUIET
Real madrid 13 ucl😌
@@saisankar252 are we talking about Spanish football? No kid
@@saisankar252 what real madrid got to do with it, he was talking about italian football
@@saisankar252 go home with illegal payment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and f**k your illegal payer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AC MILAN PLEASE COMEBACK TO THE TOP AGAIN! 😭😭😭😭😭
ciao golden boy!
naaaaaaa.. Castillejo is the real deal
We're back
@@ibraben4146 👍👍👍
As longtime AC Milan fan who has as his fav edition the 2005 one and Ruud as my fav CF after R9 and Sheva, this is truly special. Ruud is an authentic legend. The real and unique heir of Marco to my eyes.
Van Basten way better. Second is Bergkamp,then comes Van Nistelrooy
for those generations who never saw van Nistelrooy play... he was a beast ... full power and passion
While poking every conceivable hole in the offside rule
Cafu was very attack minded, even Maldini when he played as LB was decent going forward. May favorite player was Seedorf
Seedorf deserved just as much of a response as the others...speaks to the lack of recognition he’s received from casual football fans.
Those that know the game know though
Seedorf is a legend. Was never truly acknowledged by the Dutch themselves, shameful.
Amen to that....
It’s cus u black
@@temudjin38 he was, two of our coaches just did not call him and there was a lot of unrest around him. People were saying that he was too selfish and that his mindset would unbalance the dressingroom etc. But nobody denied his skill as a player.
@@koen6798 spot on!
0:57
He describes Gattuso perfectly
“I’ll kill you when touch the ball”
Can't believe it's the first time I watch an interview of Van Nistelrooy. Dude seems super chill and nice. Loved him as a player.
First time watching this comedian's routine. Clean and insightful. We need more entertainers like this guy here.
Me as an AC Milan fan - crying on the inside😭😭😭
Hearing a Dutchman being fair and kind and speaking respectfully of Italians and their working in a team unit. That's music to my ears. Respect to you, Ruud! (i'm Italian)
@hfc sorry i'm replying fast but speaking of soccer i think that is due to taking sides on one's team (they argue a kick each other's a--es just as well among Italians, like they do in any country really, I suppose). We don't have anything against the Dutch as a nation... About my own comment, I was referring to the fact many Dutch look down on Italy, maybe because of stereotypes - just like the Dutch are said to be greedy etc. (but not in Italy, anyway)... not taking it personal but from what I saw around myself in the NL and in years in the UK, many Dutch are rude especially the women, and I mean, putting aside the fact that rude acts in one culture are normal in another.
Example: they (and the English) always go on about how they're so much better, more civil, and different from the Germans. But look how the English representatives and people behaved at Wembley: booing the national anthem first, then refusing the 2nd place medals and leaving the stadium before the end of the ceremony. Even the Royals and entourage didn't greet and just shake hands with our President, and they were next to him. They behave exactly like the Na&is in their own films - spoiled, antisportive, unfair (in the attitude), not willing to just admit they lost, and to a nation they (wrongly) see as culturally, if not ethnically, inferior... (whereas the Germans are in fact often very well-meaning and kind to everyone...)
I do agree with everything he has said. Those days it was really hard to play against the Italian, wither it was the national team or the clubs. You can’t let them scored first, because if they do, it’s over.
One of the best, out and out strikers ever.
Damn those good old days. As an early 90's kid I'm lucky to see those matches live. To me the late 90's & early 00's were the golden era of football.
Well you are right, back then football was about passion and not only money.
I don’t feel football is the same anymore after 2015.
It’s still good but not the same.
Italy. Have 1 of the best. Savers.
Life a friend of mine, fan of the old school Serie A Italiana from 2000's said, Italian teams didn't defend a lot!
They used to play on the defence!
There is a difference!!!
Milan did that and than in transition would kill you
Attack wins the game, defence wins the championship. Easy
it's actually Attacks sold tickets, but defenses wins the game... I think is actually taken from basketball.
@@enricogiannini7455 si il concetto è lo stesso alla fine
Italians understand that a goal isn’t what the other team did well but what your team did wrong. Also football is like sex, anticipation of a goal is the foreplay and the goal is the climax... everyone knows good foreplay better then climax especially the quick fast ones.
A Legendary time where a legend was surrrrrrrounded by other legends.. Juventus fan here!
As a Milan fan this brings back the feels. Hope to see something like this again in my lifetime.
Ruud has been one of the strongest dutch players!
Man, I have so much respect for that Milan team, they were stacked.
and they have a Ballon D'Or winner and he was a great defender "Cannavaro"
Ruud breathed goals. As a lifelong Milan fan I always respected him.
France had a mean defence in the late 90s also. Thuram, Blanc, Desailly and Lizarazu with players like Deschamps and Vieira just in front of them.
Yes, French defenders did well in Italy too.
Thuram, Parma, Desailly Milan, Blanc Inter , Viera and Deschamps Juve...... we should ask these players in what part of their career they notice an improve in their game.....
@@radarinter9065 Italian game is very tactical. I believe it taught Deschamps to be a great manager.
They played in Serie A in their prime time
@@sr3821 facts
All those players he mentioned played in the 2005 Istanbul champions league final, just a testament for how amazing that final was for Liverpool!
2007 comeback
This guy could score against any team
90's. Yeah it's amazing time to watching football.
Campioni d'Europa. And you continue teaching.
This guy made the crowd laugh by just saying names
After he named all the back 4 I was like, oh god…. How can you score against that. And when he mentions Gattu, I was like oh god, how can you still alive after that.
the art of defending, l'arte di difendere. Like italy no one else.
well there is no one else wants to play defence anyway lol
@@ClearForCr7 because they are shit at it. Every country has 1-2 great defenders you can name in the past 30 years, you take Italy and there are 10-15 names.
@@stefanoghidetti6340 le squadre italiane hanno vinto competizione spesso grazie alle difese.
how many Italian teams are in the semifinal of the champions league?? Looks like the art of defending worked really well
@@lorenzo4819 that's because Italy and Italian teams are loosing their identity by trying to copy Guardiola and that kind of style. We should definitely take a look to our history and learn from it, instead of trying to be someone that we'll never be.
My friend Ruud , in Italy we are very famous not just about defence ...
remember in that Milan you just mentioned .. there was also Kaka , Inzaghi , Shevchenko , Crespo
Sedoorf...
Well just a few player that they know how to score !
So not just defence !
attacking win games, defending wins titles
Everyone keeps forgetting the legendary Rui Costa. What a midfielder!
That is one of the greatest Milan units ever put together #sempremilan 🖤♥️🖤♥️🖤♥️
The Italian defence is legendary 🇮🇹⚽🏆
RvN (starts orchestrating with his hands) : "Pirlo" 1:03
As a Juve fan I always admired that Milan team of those years, not that ours was bad but their defence had something we'll never have.
He is talking about 2004-05. Played Milan home and away and it wasn't just Ruud who was like a headless chicken. None of the man Utd players got much of a touch or opportunity. Milan won 1-0 in both legs, but that was being polite. That Milan team was anything but defensive. With seedorf, pirlo, kaka, sheva, inzaghi and crespo, that was one hell of an attacking team.
@@TubeYouUsing rinse who up? I'm from Basiglio. Lifelong Milan fan. Can't you read?
Pretty charismatic great story telling skills from Ruud.
Roberto Baggio was the best Italian player ever and one of the best in the world 🌎
i agree mate,,,,
NOPE !!!
PAOLO MALDINI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nations have cyclical success in European football. I’m from UK, and our clubs are currently enjoying that. I love the different styles of each country and how they combat opponents formations and their “modus operandi” that is unique to each nation. I admire the technical approach and pressing game, derived from patiently applied pressure by Italian teams. The economical and clinical precision of the “Bundasliga”. The flair, and flowing passing game in Spain. I admit to bias, but feel that the English game is unequalled in terms of sheer excitement and drama. Barcelona v Liverpool. Milan v Liverpool. Spurs v Ajax. I think you’ll agree that they were a few of the most dramatic games in recent years. The English game is an unpredictable mixture of physical strength and speed, with an explosive dimension that is hard to contain when played at its best.