Kilpin, whose family business was selling meat, left his hometown at the age of 21 and moved to Turin, Italy, where he worked with textile maker Bosio. In the same year, Bosio, who had been working in Nottingham, England, founded the Turin International team, which was not the same team as the present-day Turin of the Italian First Division, and Kilpin joined the Turin International team, becoming the team's first English player and the first English player to play abroad. English player to play abroad.
Kilpin left Turin International in 1898 and, with compatriot Samuel Davies, founded in 1899 the
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The Milan Foot-ball and Cricket Club, then known as the Milan Foot-ball and Cricket Club, later won the fourth Italian Championship in 1901, breaking the record of Genoa, then king of the treble.
With Turin, Genoa,
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Juventus, Italian football team
Soccer became the hottest sport in Italy with the rise of soccer teams such as Milan FC in 1919 and Milan FC in 1939.
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Associazione Calcio Milan has maintained the name Milan rather than Milano, in honor of the English identity of its founder.
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Founded in 1908
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is from
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The breakaway, three championship-winning seasons in 1901, 1906, and 1907
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They faced the Italians at the time.
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One of the strange rules being offered up is that teams are prohibited from signing new foreign players, the
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Quite dissatisfied with this rule, he refused to participate in the competition, but the decision to refuse to participate did not satisfy everyone in the team.
So 40 members left.
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The first of these, led by the painter Muggiani, announced on March 9, 1908 the creation of
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Internazionale Milano, the name of the team, is clearly a tribute to the meaning of the word
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policy response to their desire to accommodate foreign players.
Post-creation
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also won the Boxer League title in the 1909-10 season, and it is interesting to note that the original team
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As if wounded, the 1907 championship was followed by internal divisions, and the next championship was the 1950-51 season after World War II.
Jerseys and logos
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We will be a group of demons. Our colors will be red and black like fire, which can cut opponents to fear!
Milan founder Kilpin, who said this when he founded the team.
The Red and Blacks also became
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The symbolic colors of the jerseys, after winning the championship in 1901, were known in Italy as Rossoneri, which means red and black in Italian.
As you can see from the original jerseys back in 1899
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The red and black striped jerseys are close to recent styles, as can be seen in this photo of jersey styles through the years.
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The jerseys have not changed much, just the thickness of the stripes and the neckline, and the pants have maintained the pure white color for many years. It is quite rare in the football world for a team that has been in existence for a hundred years to have such a small change in its jerseys.
The emblem of the team, which can be seen on the original jersey, has a red cross on a white background, somewhat resembling the flag of England, which is not the emblem of the team and has nothing to do with the British nationality of the founders.
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The official website writes that the cross is a very ancient red cross on a white background born in Italy, the red represents the nobility, the white represents the people, and such symbols are united together to symbolize unity.
This style is also visible on the coat of arms of the city of Milan. The real
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The first emblem is square, with a red cross on a white background and the stripes of the red and black jerseys at the top, and Milan Foot-ball and Cricket Club written at the bottom.
In the 1920 season the English lettering was taken out of the furlongs and the team name was already Milan FC, which became abbreviated MFC above the crest, a style that is no longer too different from the crests we see today, and which in 1974 had been called
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The Red and Blacks changed the upper text to ACM, which is almost equivalent to the current logo, and only changed the font in subsequent years.
Between 1961-72, the team also put the style of the Devil into the logo, but in the official website does not put such a logo sample is in the team's history, only in 1980-87, a conspicuous red Devil and yellow star logo appeared, and then in the removal, changed back to the current shape we see now.
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Giorgio Muggiani, one of the founders of the company, was a painter who, in 1908, designed the
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The team logo, based on the concept of the team's acronym (Foot-Ball Club Internazionale Milano) FCIM, is placed in a blue, black and gold circle, and it can be seen that this logo is still in use even now, 115 years later.
