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On the 18th of May 1994, Fabio Capello became a European champion for the first and only time in his career. Having spent the week listening to the taunts of his opposite number Johan Cruyff over the boring style he employed compared to his predecessor Arrigo Sacchi, Capello’s Milan took the more impressive Barcelona Dream Team apart in quite possibly the most complete performance a team has given in a European cup final, despite missing their defensive heart Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, star striker Marco van Basten and the world’s most expensive player Gianluigi Lentini. However, the issue with that match when discussing Capello’s Milan is that, although it was undoubtably his crowning achievement and thus the game he will be remembered for, it was an anomaly from what was, despite its talents, a really rather dull side. A brief caretaker period in charge of them before Sacchi’s arrival and some time with their youth team aside, Milan was Capello’s first coaching job in football. After the exciting tenure of Sacchi and his all-star Gli Immortali side, the appointment of one of Silvio Berlusconi’s company men didn’t exactly set the world alight. Even with hindsight, it’s difficult to tell [...]
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