85000 people standing ovation - the story of a legend

Paolo Maldini

25 years for a single club

Although I was moving from a place to another, and having no internet I wasn't able to see the game of my favorite club, AC Milan, but still, YouTube is our friend and you can see in the second video the game and the final two minutes, when Maldini says goodbye to the football pitch.

He is 40, and he retires, nothing new for a player that age, but is new (for our football-era anyway) is that he played 25 years for the same club as a professional, at the highest level and also before that he played at the youth teams of the same club for another 6. So, if my math is right he played 31 years for the same team.... And that is something that says it all. So why am I still babbling, because this is my way of saying Thank You and Goodbye to a truly amazing player and personality of the football pitch and of this world.

Bellow you have his Honours - there are teams in this world that don't have so many as he does

Honours

Milan

• Serie A
  
  
  
  • Winner:1987-88, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1998-99, 2003-04
  
  
  • Runner-up:1989-90, 1990-91
  
  
  
  


• Coppa Italia
  
  
  
  • Winner: 2002-03
  
  
  
  • Runner-up: 1984-85, 1989-90, 1997-98
  
  
  
  


• Supercoppa Italiana
  
  
  
  • Winner: 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004
  
  
  • Runner-up: 1996, 1999, 2003
  
  
  
  


• UEFA Champions League
  
  
  
  • Winner:1988-89, 1989-90, 1993-94, 2002-03, 2006-07
  
  
  • Runner-up:1992-93, 1994-95, 2004-05
  
  
  
  


• UEFA Super Cup
  
  
  
  • Winner:1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007
  
  
  • Runner-up:1993
  
  
  
  


• Intercontinental Cup
  
  
  
  • Winner:1989, 1990
  
  
  • Runner-up: 1993, 1994, 2003
  
  
  
  


• FIFA Club World Cup
  
  
  
  • Winner: 2007
  
  
  
  

National team - Italy

• FIFA World Cup 1990: 3rd Place


• FIFA World Cup 1994: Runner-up


• UEFA Euro 1988: 3rd Place


• UEFA Euro 2000: Runner-up

Individual

• Under-21 European Footballer of the Year: 1989


• FIFA World Cup Team of the Tournament: 1994


• UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1996, 2000


• UEFA Champions League Final Man of the Match: 2003


• Serie A Defender of the Year: 2004


• FIFA 100


• UEFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2005


• FIFPro World XI: 2005


• UEFA Champions League Best Defender: 2007


• Italy captain: 1994-2002


• Italy - all-time caps: 126

Listen 85000 screaming his name before his last match on San Siro

See Milan 2 - 3 Roma Match Highlights

A great clip about the legend of AC MILAN

We will always remember you, as the Captain that you were and the Gentleman that you will always remain