From VHS dreams to San Siro glory: Amorim’s Milan surge puts rivals on notice | Nicky Bandini
“I remember watching tapes of that Milan team with [Paolo] Maldini, [Franco] Baresi, [Ruud] Gullit, [Frank] Rijkaard, [Dejan] Savicevic,” Amorim told Portuguese newspaper Expresso back in 2017.
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- As a kid growing up in Lisbon, he supported two football teams.
Inspired by the legendary Milan sides of his youth, the manager gave his side a lift with a tactical victory over Inter Ruben Amorim had waited a lifetime for his first Milan derby.
There was the local one, Benfica, whose games he attended so early in life that his father has recalled changing nappies in the stands of the old Estádio da Luz.
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