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Milan 1-1 Real Madrid

Source: The Guardian

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

The two glittering but troubled aristocrats of European football went to war last night on one of the great battlegrounds of the game. Karim Benzema crowned Real Madrid's opening assault with the club's first goal at San Siro for 53 years, only for their chances of beating their opponents for the first time in their history to be pegged back almost immediately by Ronaldinho's penalty.

Earlier in the day Silvio Berlusconi's willingness to sell Milan to the right bidder, almost 30 years after acquiring the club, was made plain in an interview given to the author of a book to be published in Italy this week. "I would make the sacrifice to sell Milan only to someone who would benefit the club," Berlusconi told the writer, the television journalist Bruno Vespa. "Up to now, no one has come forward who fits the bill."

The sale of Kaká to Real Madrid in the summer signalled the intention to make no further investments of the sort that brought Marco Van Basten, Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard to the club in the 1980s. So did the decision to replace the departing Carlo An

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