Kilpin left his homeland at the age of 21 and moved to Turin, Italy, where he followed the textile maker Bosio who, unlike Turin, founded the Torino International team the same year while working in Nottingham, England. Kilpin also joined the Turin International team, becoming its first English player and the first English player to play abroad.
Kilpin left the Turin international in 1898 and with fellow Davies (Samuel Davies) AC Milan was founded in 1899 as Milan Football and Cricket Club Milann. Foot-ball and Cricket Club, and subsequently won the fourth Italian Championship in 1901, breaking what was then a treble king Genoa's record of sole dominance. Kilpin flag, image from bbc
With the rise of Torino, Genoa, AC Milan, Juventus and other soccer teams, soccer grew to become the most popular sport in Italy.In 1919, the name of the Red and Black Army was changed to Milan FC, and AC Milan Associazione became AC Milan Calcio Milan again in 1939.In contrast to Milano, which has always retained the English name Milan, mainly in honor of the founder being English.
Inter Milan Inter Milan, image from bleacherreport
Inter Milan was founded in 1908, breaking away from AC Milan, who won the championship in three seasons in 1901, 1906, and 1907, when they faced the Italian Football Federation with a strange rule that prohibited teams from signing new foreign players.AC Milan was quite unhappy with this rule and refused to play in the tournament, but the decision to refuse to play in the tournament didn't please everyone on the team everyone was happy.
As a result, 40 members left AC Milan as the painter Muggiani On March 9, 1908, they announced the formation of Inter Milan Internazionale. Milano, the team's name was clearly a response to the policy of the Yishu Federation, who wanted to accept foreign players.
Inter Milan was founded and also won the First Division title in the 1909-10 season. Interestingly, the original AC Milan seemed to have a lot of energy, and after winning the title in 1907, it experienced internal divisions. The next time it won the title was the 1950-51 season after World War II.
Jerseys and logos
AC Milan (football club)
"We will be a bunch of demons. Our colors will be red and black like fire so that we can frighten our opponents! Milan legend Maldini. Image from sportsnet
Kilpin, the founder of AC Milan, said this when he started the team. The Red and Black also became the symbol of the AC Milan jersey, and after winning the title in 1901, Italy called them Rossoneri, which means red and black in Italian.
Starting with the 1899 jersey, we can see that AC Milan's red and black striped garments have come very close to the modern style. With this photo of jersey styles over the years, we can also see that the AC Milan jersey has changed very little, namely the thickness of the stripes and the neckline. The jerseys have remained a solid white color over the years. For a team with 100 years of history, the changes on the jerseys are so small, which is very rare in the soccer world.AC Milan Logo Evolution, image from Milan official website
In the emblem section, as you can see from the original jerseys, there is a red cross + white background, a bit like the English flag. This is not a team crest and has nothing to do with the founder's English nationality.AC Milan's official website states that the cross is a very old red cross on a white background, born in Italy. The red color represents the nobility and the white color represents the people. The unity of these emblems symbolizes unity.
This style is at the same time the iconography visible on the Milan coat of arms.AC Milan's real first crest was square, with the red cross and the stripes of the red and black jerseys on a white background, and underneath it read Mini Foot-ball and Cricket Club Milan Football and Cricket Club.
In the 1920 season, taking down the English characters of the last game, the name of the team was already Milan. FC, so the team badge above had become abbreviated to MFC. This style is not very different from the team badge we see today.In 1974 the red and black army known as AC Milan changed the text above to ACM, which is almost equivalent to the look of the team badge we see today. Over the next few years we could only change the font.
In 1961-72, the team also put the Devils' style on the logo, but such a sample of the logo is not placed on the team history on the official website. Only in 1980-87 did a distinctly red Devils and yellow stars emblem appear, then it was removed and changed back to what we see now.
Inter legend Daniele Sanetti. Image from eurosport
FC Internazionale Milano (football club)
Giorgio Gianni was one of the founders of Inter Milan. (Giorgio Muggiani) A painter by trade, he designed an Inter Milan crest after 1908, abbreviating the team's English name. (Foot-Ball Club Internazionale Milano) As a concept, FCIM placed it in a blue-black and gold circle, and it can be seen that this crest was still in use until 115 years later.
