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AC Milan about themselves: the first headquarters were established at the 'Fiaschetteria Toscana' on Via Berchet in Milan, back in 1899. From that moment on the glorious history of Milan was born as the club went on to write its name in football's record books to become, especially over the last 15 years, one of the most famous and successful teams in the world.
The Rossoneri history is studded with legendary names of men who have made a major contribution to the club's development, be they presidents, coaches or players. The first president was a British expatriate, Alfred Edwards, who oversaw the club's first title - a mere two years after its foundation. The president with the most victories is Silvio Berlusconi who has taken Milan to the pinnacle of the world game since taking control in 1986.
A great team needs a great coach and Milan have certainly had their fair share of the richest talent around. The likes of Gipo Viani, Nereo Rocco and Nils Liedholm were the early masters and they were followed by Arrigo Sacchi and Fabio Capello who took tactics and team strategy to a new level, which heralded much of what we can term as the modern approach to the game. Along the way, each and everyone of them also made sure their teams played spectacular football.
The ushering in of the Berlusconi era first saw Sacchi and then Capello win numerous trophies. Sacchi won back to back European Cups with a team considered to have been one of the greatest teams in history, also claiming a Serie A title, two Intercontinental and European Super Cups. Capello followed that with four league titles, one European Cup and one European Super Cup. Alberto Zaccheroni kept the rich tradition going as he led the team to a league title in his first year before Fatih Terim took over for a short time and then passed the reins on to Carlo Ancelotti whose management skills have brought Milan back to top spot in Italy and throughout Europe.

First team
As of September 2, 2007 (UTC).

1 GK Dida
2 DF Cafu
3 DF Paolo Maldini (captain)
4 DF Kakha Kaladze
5 MF Emerson
7 FW Alexandre Pato
8 MF Gennaro Gattuso (vice-captain)
9 FW Filippo Inzaghi
10 MF Clarence Seedorf
11 FW Alberto Gilardino
13 DF Alessandro Nesta
16 GK Željko Kalac
17 DF Dario Šimić
18 DF Marek Jankulovski
19 DF Giuseppe Favalli

20 MF Yoann Gourcuff
21 MF Andrea Pirlo
22 FW Kaká
23 MF Massimo Ambrosini (vice-captain)
25 DF Daniele Bonera
27 MF Serginho
29 GK Valerio Fiori
31 DF Digão
32 MF Cristian Brocchi
34 MF Ibrahim Ba
36 DF Matteo Darmian
44 DF Massimo Oddo
94 FW Willy Aubameyang
99 FW Ronaldo

Honours: Milan is one of the most successful clubs in the world, having won a total of 27 trophies in Italy and 17 in international competitions, including a record 14 European trophies. Milan have earned the distinction of being allowed to wear a star on their jersey representing the fact that they have won more than 10 Scudetti. Added to this Milan are allowed to wear the UEFA Badge of Honour on their jersey during Champions League matches as they have won more than 5 European Cups.

Domestic titles
Serie A (Italian League Championship)
Winners (17): 1901, 1906, 1907, 1950-51, 1954-55, 1956-57, 1958-59, 1961-62, 1967-68, 1978-79, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1998-99, 2003-04
Runners-up (14): 1902, 1947-48, 1949-50, 1951-52, 1955-56, 1960-61, 1964-65, 1968-69, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1989-90, 1990-91, 2004-05

Serie B (Italian Second Division)
Winners (2): 1980-81, 1982-83 Coppa Italia

Italian Cup
Winners (5): 1966-67, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1976-77, 2002-03
Runners-up (7): 1941-42, 1967-68, 1970-71, 1974-75, 1984-85, 1989-90, 1997-98

Super Coppa di Lega (Italian Super Cup)
Winners (5): 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2005
Runners-up (3): 1996, 1999, 2003

European titles
UEFA Champions League (former European Cup)
Winners (7): 1962-63, 1968-69, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1993-94, 2002-03, 2006-07
Runners-up (4): 1957-58, 1992-93, 1994-95, 2004-05

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Winners (2): 1967-68, 1972-73
Runners-up (1): 1973-74

UEFA Super Cup
Winners (5): 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007
Runners-up (2): 1973, 1993

Mitropa Cup
Winners (1): 1981-82

Latin Cup (unofficial)
Winners (2): 1950-51, 1955-56
Runners-up (1): 1952-53

World-wide titles
FIFA Club World Cup (former Intercontinental Cup)
Winners (3): 1969, 1989, 1990
Runners-up (4): 1963, 1993, 1994, 2003

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Milan Lab
Science and Technology: MilanLab is the High Tech Scientific Research Centre set up by A.C. Milan with strong motivation, operating since July 2002, and is based inside the Milanello Sporting Centre. The purpose is to optimise the psycho-physical management of the athletes by entrusting this task to MilanLab, which represents the ideal combination of science, technology, IT, cybernetics and psychology..

Objectives: MilanLab contributes strongly to optimising the team's results. The objectives of the studies and the research are to enable athletes to achieve the most optimum performance possible, to reduce the risks of injury and to act in the decision making to support the technical staff and club hierarchy in the management of human resources.

The health of the players: the better the more valuable
The primary object of MilanLab is the protection of each player. Psycho-physical well-being of players is a more valuable asset than that of a football team as a whole, in that those who take the pitch are more important from a sporting point of view than from an economic point of view.

The systematic approach: the organisation as the sum of its components
MilanLab takes its work forward through the development of the concept of the 'systematic vision' of a football team. Whatever the organisation, be it a company or a football team, it can be considered an 'entity' composed of various sub-systems which work in conjunction to determine the overall result of the primary system. The overall productivity of the system is provided from the input of each single sub-system that comprises it: to maximise results as a whole it is necessary therefore to optimise the productivity of every related sub-system, collecting the greatest amount of information from all the areas involved in the process.

The functional levels: At the base of Milanlab there is a dominating vision of understanding health as a total state of physical, mental and social well-being that is dependent on the balancing of three principal functional levels: (neuro)structural, biochemical and mental that together all represent the area of participation.
(Neuro)structural area: is based on the chiropractor approach that emphasizes the intrinsic ability of the body to recover without drugs or surgical intervention.
Biochemical area: the body is considered to be a physio-chemical-biological entity, with focus on the bio-chemical changes occurring in the body during exercise.
Mental area: the study and monitoring of the psychological state of the athlete taking advantage of the Mind Room, a glassed-in facility that helps players relax and relieve stress. The mental training lasts 20 minutes and takes place after every training session. The programme enables up to eight players at a time to make use of comfortable ergonomic seats to view relaxing images while psychologists monitor their mental state via miniature electrodes fitted to the players' head which send out a signal from the scalp to a computer. Head psychologist of the Mind Room is Doctor Bruno Demichelis, the Milan psychologist who uses the facility to improve the recovery rate of the players between matches and to provide scope for them to overcome negative stress.

Artificial intelligence in the service of sport: MilanLab takes advantage of the latest advanced and sophisticated software technologies available in order to collect and to process information. The system of artificial intelligence collects and processes the information, a self-taught mechanism with the ability 'to learn' through the process of memorised data which can determine which factors will cause a player to suffer an injury. The psycho-physical information regarding every player is gathered through a sophisticated system of wiring connected to the Unysis output point and supported by hardware installation supplied by AMD. At this point, a sophisticated software programme developed by Computer Associates performs neural analysis and uses artificial intelligence to transform vast amounts of numeric medical statistics into meaningful predictions through the PAS technology (Predictive Analysis Server), a system that works to predict the possible risks to the players.

Research partnership: MilanLab is a multi-disciplinary research and development project which looks to the future, taking advantage of data gained from past experience. Within this, Milanlab has developed research partnerships with the most prestigious international research centres: SENSEable City Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston (USA); The Department of Bioengineering of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and the Centre of Research in Epistemology Knowledge and Application (CRESA) of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele.

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