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The little-known Arrigo Sacchi shocked the world of Italian football when he was appointed as Milan coach in the summer of 1987. He arrived with new ideas and new players like Carlo Ancelotti and the two brilliant Dutchmen Marco Van Basten and Ruud Gullit....

Their strong Bundesliga showing the previous season meant that Eintracht Frankfurt kicked off the 1972-73 campaign participating in a UEFA-affiliated competition for the first time since their famous European Cup Final appearance in 1960. Unfortunate to be drawn against eventual winners Liverpool in the...

While Vasco da Gama made little impression on the national Serie A campaign in 1970, the club did capture its first Campeonato Carioca since 1958 under coach and former Brazilian playing legend, Tim. Vasco had lost a long-serving veteran in World Cup central defender...

As the 70s ticked over into the 80s, the new decade heralded the start of a new and exciting era for AS Roma. Back in charge for a second spell, visionary Swedish coach Nils Liedholm was beginning to fashion a balanced team featuring the...

The unseeded format of the former European Cup competition threw up numerous oddities, such as Nottingham Forest facing a more challenging opponent in the First Round (competition holders Liverpool) of their successful 1978-79 campaign than the Final (Swedish champions Malmö). Of course, Forest was...

For a club used to being a top six fixture in the English top flight during this era, the 1977-78 League season represented something of a disappointment for Ipswich, with a lowly 18th place finish, just three points above the relegation zone. Few supporters...

The football revolution that Danish football underwent in the 1970s paved the way for the nation's emergence onto the world scene in the following decade. Despite the many good players produced in Denmark, football there had long and resolutely stuck to its amateur principles...

Financial issues off the field led to difficult times for BSC Young Boys in the mid 1990s. Firstly Bernard Challandes then former long-serving defender Jean-Marie Conz tried to turn the tide as Young Boys shifted from being a club that habitually qualified for the...

Watford ended their 1995 - 96 League campaign strongly with 13 points from their final 6 games, including 15 goals scored in successive home games against Port Vale, Reading and Grimsby Town. Unfortunately form earlier in the season had not been so strong and...

The enormous impact that Algeria made on the 1982 World Cup was all the more remarkable considering the country had only officially established a national team two decades earlier upon independence from France. When the north Africans turned up in Spain, most of the...

The hosting by Los Angeles of the 1984 Summer Olympics was a great opportunity for the United States team to enjoy home advantage and capture the imagination of a curious domestic audience in the soccer event. Unfortunately, the adventure ended prematurely in the group...

The year 1971 represents an iconic time in the history of Club Nacional de Football. Washington Etchamendi's brilliant team achieved victory in all the competitions in which it participated: the first victory in the Copa Libertadores over the three-time champion Estudiantes de la Plata,...

Club Brugge cemented its role as the dominant Belgian club of the decade with the 1977-78 season proving to be the greatest in the club's history to date. Ernst Happel's team duly won a third successive domestic title, but it was the European arena...

Former midfielder Lucien Müller took charge of Barcelona at the start of the 1978-79 season with high hopes, although the Frenchman would ultimately fail to replicate the success he had enjoyed as a player there in the 1960s and was replaced before the season...

The 1998-99 season brought the penta for FC Porto - a fifth successive Portuguese title win and an 18th overall for the club. Fernando Santos took over at the start of the season and kept the successful run going with the club finishing a...

Former 1960s Nantes legend Jean-Claude Suaudeau stepped up to take charge of his former club in the summer of 1982 following a nine-year spell in charge of the club’s youth sections. It would prove to be an inspired appointment with Suaudeau having been responsible...

As South Korea continued to develop as a footballing force, appearances at World Cup tournaments were becoming more frequent, and they duly contested the 1994 edition in the USA under coach Kim Ho. Drawn in a tough group, the Tigers Of Asia drew 2-2...

The 1998 – 99 season saw Eric Gerets’ Club Brugge finish a solid second in the league, beating rivals Anderlecht both home and away, and claiming Super Cup silverware with a victory over Racing Genk. Featuring a balanced mix of experienced players, goal-threatening midfielders,...

Alberto Zaccheroni had made a miraculous start to his Milan career in 1999 by inspiring the club to a surprise Serie A title after a mid-table toil for the previous couple of seasons. The 1999 - 00 campaign was less successful with the title...

The 1984-85 season was one of change for Benfica with new manager Tomislav Ivic departing early in the campaign and being replaced by Pal Csernai. New signings Jorge Silva, Wando & Adelino Nunes arrived to replace the departing Fernando Chalana and Glenn Stromberg. These...

The 1960s was a decade when Scotland fans would declare their national side as unofficial World champions on the strength of a 3-2 victory in 1967 over the actual World Champions, England. Very much in keeping with its modern history, on good days Scotland...

The mid 1990s marked a strong resurgence for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the upper tier of German football. Under the intelligent guidance of Bernd Krauss, and strengthened by key signings such as Stefan Effenberg, Patrick Andersson, Martin Dahlin and Heiko Herrlich, Die Fohlen once again...

It was all change for the 1991-92 season as Internazionale bade farewell to Giovanni Trapattoni after half a decade in charge and appointed the relatively unknown Corrado Orrico as his successor. The squad was reshaped with the addition of new players like Stefano Desideri,...

The 1982-83 season brought major change for Internazionale with the arrival of Rino Marchesi as coach and significant changes in the playing squad. World Cup winning defender Fulvio Collovati crossed over from neighbours Milan to complement the fast-emerging Bergomi, Ferri and Zenga, while two...

Special shirts deserve special teams to wear them and Bayern München's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal winners from 1986 was a very special side. A high-calibre team featuring West German stars like Lothar Matthäus, Klaus Augenthaler, Hans Pflügler, Michael Rummenigge and the veteran Dieter Hoeneß stylishly...

1974 was a famous year in the history of Vasco da Gama with the club becoming Brazilian national champions for the first time. The 1975 campaign under coach Mario Travaglini did not scale those same heights with Vasco being eliminated in the second phase...

Having endured a disappointing campaign by Milan's high standards the previous year, the 1995-96 season was an opportunity to bounce back and end Fabio Capello's spell as coach on a high note. The defence tightened up and the arrival of George Weah and Roberto...

A number ten, a playmaker, an unerring finisher, a devastating set-piece taker, a physical powerhouse, endlessly brave, a leader of men, an inspiration, an otherworldly talent. Quite simply Diego Armando Maradona was all of these things and one of the few footballers in history...

A season full of milestones on many accounts for Fulham: Even though finishing in only the 18th place of Division one the club scored an impressive 71 goals – the fifth-highest in the division –, played their 2000th league game & 1000th home game...

While the 1985 domestic season was not a particularly notable one on the field of play for Vasco da Gama, gradually emerging were a number of talented youngsters who would star for the Rio giants and go on to have stellar careers in Europe....