Cevenini brothers

The five Cevenini brothers all played top class football, their collective careers spanning the years 1907- 1939, winning 8 league titles between them.

Cevenini I: Aldo- combined 200 games with Milan and Internazionale. Won 2 national championships, represented Italy 11 times (including the first international in 1910), scoring 3 goals.

 Cevenini II:Mario- a defender who represented both Milan giants and won 2 league titles.

 Cevenini III:Luigi -played for Internazionale 190 times in 3 spells and scored 156 goals, winning the Italian Prima Divisione title in 1920. He also represented Novese and Juventus. For Italy
 he scored 11 goals in 29 matches between 1915 and 1929, was captain on 7 occasions, and a  Central European International Cup winner.

Cevenini IV: Cesare - a defender, he won the Prima Divisione with Inter in 1919-20.

Cevenini V: Carlo- enjoyed success at Milan, Internazonale, Lazio and Novese, where he won the title in  1921-22.


 Aldo, Mario Luigi and Carlo all featuered in Novese's championship success of 1921-22.

Men v Boys

A remarkable photograph.
Internazionale claimed their first championship title on 24-04-1910. They did so with a 10-3 victory over a Pro Vercelli reserve team made up of youths reportedly aged 11-15. The 2 had finished level on points at the end of the league programme. F.I.G.C.had refused to reschedule the play off, which clashed with Pro Vercelli's prior arrangement to play in a tournament. Pro Vercelli's response was to field the youth side, who reportedly indulged in some dirty play.
 In the regular season Pro Vercelli had beaten Inter 4-1 in Milan, whilst Inter had won the return 2-1.

Internazionale v Juventus, 1910

A scene from one of the Juventus v Internazionale matches in 1910.
The goalposts appear to be far from perpendicular.

Giuseppe Meazza

Meazza's career as a player spanned 20 years (1927-47) and he won 53 international caps between 1930-39.
For Internazionale (Ambrosiana) Meazza scored 242 goals in 365 games. He was Capocannoniere on 3 occasions and scored 33 international goals in his 53 appearances, winning 2 World Cups.
Let's look at the early phase of Meazza's career:  

Season 1927-28:  2 goals on his first team debut age 17. 12 goals in 33 games. 
Season  1928-29:  Top scorer in the national championships with 38 goals in 29 matches.  This included 2 5 goal matches and 6 goals in 1 match (against Venezia). 
Season 1929-30:The first season of Serie A- Capocannoniere with 31 goals.

Not bad considering that Milan rejected him as a 14 year old for being undersized,
 and his first coach at Internazionale's youth side played him as a defender! 

Derby della Madonnina

The first meeting of the two Milan clubs cannot really be counted in any official list, as football matches should be 90 minutes, not 50 minutes in length. 3 months later, however, the rivalry commenced in earnest. 3 Milan teams contested the Lombardy regional section of the Italian championship. Interestingly neither Milan or Inter progressed, but rather Unione Sportiva Milanese. in  1928 the Fascists imposed a merger on Unione Sportiva and Internazionale, forming Ambrosiana.

Club captains Virgilio Fossati and Renzo De Vecchi

10-01-09	AC Milan	3	2	Internazionale		Prima Categoria
06-02-10	AC Milan	0	5	Internazionale
17-02-10	Internazionale	5	1	AC Milan
05-02-11	Internazionale	0	2	AC Milan
03-04-11	AC Milan	6	3	Internazionale
05-11-11	AC Milan	2	1	Internazionale
21-01-12	Internazionale	0	3	AC Milan
17-11-12	Internazionale	1	2	AC Milan
09-02-13	AC Milan	1	0	Internazionale
30-11-13	AC Milan	0	1	Internazionale
22-02-14	Internazionale	5	2	AC Milan
02-05-15	Internazionale	3	1	AC Milan
04-11- 17	Internazionale	1	0	AC Milan		Coppa Mauro
23-12-17	AC Milan	1	0	Internazionale
03-03-18	AC Milan	8	1	Internazionale
19-12-20	AC Milan	0	0	Internazionale			Prima Divisione
30-01-21	Internazionale	1	1	AC Milan
03-04-27	Internazionale	1	2	AC Milan		Divisione Nazionale
06-06-27	Internazionale	1	1	AC Milan
30-04-28	AC Milan	1	2	Internazionale
09-07-28	Internazionale	2	3	AC Milan
10-11-29	AC Milan	1	2	Ambrosiana Inter		Serie A
13-04-30	Ambrosiana Inter	2	0	AC Milan
26-10-30	Ambrosiana Inter	1	1	AC Milan
19-03-31	AC Milan	1	4	Ambrosiana Inter
18-10-31	AC Milan	2	3	Ambrosiana Inter
06-03-32	Ambrosiana Inter	0	0	AC Milan
06-11-32	Ambrosiana Inter	5	4	AC Milan
09-04-33	AC Milan	1	3	Ambrosiana Inter
01-11-33	Ambrosiana Inter	3	0	AC Milan
11-03-34	AC Milan	1	2	Ambrosiana Inter
02-12-34	AC Milan	2	2	Ambrosiana Inter
14-04-35	Ambrosiana Inter	2	0	AC Milan
29-09-35	Ambrosiana Inter	1	1	AC Milan
02-02-36	AC Milan	2	2	Ambrosiana Inter
04-10-36	Ambrosiana Inter	1	1	AC Milan
07-02-37	Ambrosiana Inter	1	1	AC Milan

Milan had been National champions 3 times before the advent of Internazionale. Now they endured a barren spell, whereas Inter (Ambrosiana) won the scudetto 3 times during this period. (Interestingly, up until the 2012-13 season this balance remains, with each club having 14 titles to its name).

 AC Milan wins: 11 goals: 58

Internazionale/ Ambrosiana Inter wins: 16  goals: 69

Drawn: 10