Filippo Inzaghi refuses to relent — neither to injuries nor a late-game deficit. The striker scored two goals, including an 88th-minute winner, to advance AC Milan to the Champions League semifinals with a 3-1 win over Lyon on Tuesday. In October, Inzaghi returned from a slow-healing left ankle injury, which has required two operations.
Dejan Stankovic scored in the 57th minute and Inter Milan beat Ajax 1-0 on Tuesday to take the last spot in the Champions League quarterfinals. Inter advanced on 3-2 aggregate and will face Spain’s Villarreal in the last eight. ”I’m pleased with the way we played,” Inter coach Roberto Mancini said.
The rising star of Italian football, Alberto Gilardino, was due to undergo routine medical tests in Milanello on Tuesday before joining his new teammates at AC Milan. ”This is a dream come true,” the striker told reporters after signing a five-year contract with the Italian giants.
The second leg of the Champions League quarterfinal between AC Milan and Inter Milan was abandoned when Inter fans behind the goal threw scores of flares on to the pitch, one of them striking AC Milan goalkeeper Nelson Dida. German referee Markus Merk stopped the game with Milan leading 1-0 on the night and 3-0 on aggregate.
Brazilian striker Adriano scored a stunning hat-trick as Inter Milan beat holders Porto 3-1 in Milan on Tuesday in their Champions League first knockout round second-leg match to dump them out of the competition and become the third Italian team to reach the quarterfinals.
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/ 9 December 2004
It is the oddest offer ever made available in shoe shops: ”Buy two, get a third for free.” Yet, this is precisely what two Milan-based entrepreneurs have come up with as they seek to break the monopoly of pairs and revolutionise a fashion principle that has resisted bravely for several thousand years.
Milan prosecutors moved last week to bring charges against Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi, other members of his family and an inner circle of company executives for their alleged part in one of Europe’s biggest corporate fraud scandals.
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/ 12 February 2004
Italian prosecutors have formally notified 14 officials of eight international and local banks that they are under investigation in the €14,3-billion collapse of the dairy group Parmalat, the daily La Repubblica reported on Tuesday. Formal notification is the first step in a judicial process leading to charges being laid.
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/ 12 January 2004
Former Parmalat chairperson Calisto Tanzi, being investigated for alleged fraud at the food giant, has implicated the head of a leading Italian bank in several acquisitions, a newspaper alleged on Monday. Tanzi had alleged that he paid too much for a company under pressure from Capitalia because he owed the bank money, the report said.