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Arrigo Sacchi
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Arrigo Sacchi won 2 European Cups and a Serie A title with AC Milan while revolutionizing modern pressing and compact zonal defending.
A former shoe salesman who never played professionally, Arrigo Sacchi transformed Italian and world football at AC Milan from 1987 to 1991. Playing a high defensive line, aggressive offside trap, and synchronized pressing across a 4-4-2, Sacchi's Milan won Serie A in 1988 and defended the European Cup in 1989 and 1990 before reaching the 1994 World Cup final with Italy.
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Marcel "Marco" van Basten is a Dutch former football manager and player who played as a striker for Ajax and AC Milan, as well as the Netherlands national football team. Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he scored over 300 goals at the highest club and international levels, but played his last game at the age of 28, followed by an early retirement at just 30, due to a recurring ankle injury and more than two years of unsuccessful treatment. He was later the head coach of…
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