Dear Hiver Friends
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The glory of the Italian League in the 90s kept many stories. It was only a large generation in those days who understood, that in addition to being home to changing times, the country of pizza had also been ordained as the mecca of world football before the invasion of the English League and Spanish League.
Of course, the triumph of the Italian League which is also called the Lega Calcio Serie A seems to give a magical touch to the entire universe, including for our country Indonesia. Do you still remember the name Bung Rayana Djakasurya or Andi Darussalam? They are the two commentators of the motherland who have always been faithful to accompany us when bringing live broadcasts of Serie A matches at that time.
As a result, Serie A is increasingly loved by the people of Indonesia, and its tifosis is widely spread in various directions. They became the tifosi of the big clubs in this league who are members of Il sette magnifico or Seven magnificents which means 'seven extraordinary powers'. These include Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, SS Lazio, AS Roma, Fiorentina and Parma.
The highest level of competition in football has become the most famous in all corners of the world. The following soccer stars that fluttered in the Italian League Serie A in the 1990s:
- Alexandro Del Piero
- Zinedine Zidane
- Lilian Thuram
- David Trezeguet
- Paulo Maldini
- Filippo Inzaghi
- Marco Van Basten
- Roberto Baggio
- Gianluigi Buffon
- Gabriel Batistuta
- Hernan Crespo
- Javier Zanetti
- Juan Sebastian Veron
- Fabio Cannavaro
- Ronaldo Dalima
- Egdar David
- Pavel Nedved
- Fransisco Totti
- etc
Football stars from around the world are racing to try their careers in Italy. Working in the land of Pisa promises high income and skyrocketing popularity. Not surprisingly, in the 1990s Serie A never lacked great players. The majority of them gather at the top clubs in Serie A.
During the bandana period, players from Serie A dominated the list of Ballon d'Or winners.
- 1990 Lothar Mathaeus (Inter Milan)
- 1991 Jean Pierre Papin (Marseille)
- 1992 Marco Van Basten (AC Milan)
- 1993 Roberto Baggio (Juventus)
- 1994 Hristo Stoickov (Barcelona)
- 1995 George Weah (AC Milan)
- 1996 Matthias Sammer (Borussia Dortmund)
- 1997 Ronaldo (Inter Milan)
- 1998 Zinedine Zidane (Juventus)
- 1999 Rivaldo (Barcelona)
- 2000 Luis Figo (Real Madrid)
From a decade of that period there were 6 players representing Italian football winning the most prestigious individual awards.
Not only in terms of individual titles, the bandana period also brought its own romanticism at club level, because at that time the Italian team won in European competition. Let's look at the list of Cup finalists / Champions League 1989-1999.
- 1989/1990 AC Milan 1 - 0 Benfica
- 1990/1991 Red Star 0 - 0 Marseille (pen: 5-3)
- 1991/1992 Barcelona 1 - 0 Sampdoria
- 1992/1993 Marseille 1 - 0 AC Milan
- 1993/1994 AC Milan 4 - 0 Barcelona
- 1994/1995 Ajax 1 - 0 AC Milan
- 1995/1996 Juventus 1 - 1 Ajax (pen: 4-2)
- 1996/1997 Dortmund 3 - 1 Juventus
- 1997/1998 Real Madrid 1 - 0 Juventus
- 1998/1999 Manchester United 2 - 1 Bayern Munich
In the 10 years of the Champions League final, the 1989/1990 to 1998/1999 season, eight Spaghetti Country teams competed in the top party, even consecutively from the 1991/1992 season to 1997/1998. In Serie A at that time we were familiar with a term called The Magnificent Seven, a team that regularly filled at least a third of the league league table.
Above is a glimpse of the league's glamor that was once glamorous in its time and the mecca for the world's best soccer players competing, is certainly a sweet memory when we look back on that time. At this time the prestige of Serie A faded with the financial condition of the club which began to struggle to exist.
Maybe only four of the first-mentioned teams can survive with the current financial conditions, the rest must be knocked out of the league's highest caste competition. Sadly the last team called, AC Parma, was declared bankrupt in 2014/2015 so it had to compete from series D which is an amateur league.
