The teams · in memory
In the summer of 2026 the stadium’s two flag-bearers died: Franco Baresi on 31 July, Sandro Mazzola on 19 September, the day of San Siro’s hundred years. One club shirt each, one end each. Here the two careers and the two profiles compared, with the sources beside every fact.
The two captains
Mazzola leaves Inter in 1977; in the same year Baresi joins Milan’s first team. The two bars touch without overlapping: for thirty-seven years, from 1960 to 1997, at least one of the two always plays at San Siro.
The comparison
Only data found in at least two sources.
Chart
The two club careers on the same timeline. Mazzola leaves Inter in 1977; Baresi joins Milan’s first team that same year and makes his Serie A debut on 23 April 1978.
Diagram
The titles won with the club, from the table «Two careers, line by line». Red for Baresi at Milan, blue for Mazzola at Inter.
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At San Siro
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In order
Sources for the profile
No portrait: no photograph of the two with a verified licence was found. The birth dates of all the other players of the two clubs are in Anniversaries; the day of 19 September, hour by hour, in A hundred years.
At the stadium
At the first home match after his death, a giant shirt with the number 6 is spread in the centre of the pitch. The announcer calls his name after the line-ups and the stadium repeats it three times. His son places a number 6 shirt on the stand seat where his father watched matches. Milan play the season with the «6 per sempre» patch.
ANSA · Corriere dello Sport · MilanNews24 · Gazzetta del Sud
Mazzola dies on the night of the stadium’s hundredth birthday. The next day, before Milan–Lecce, San Siro observes a minute’s silence that ends in long applause. Outside the stadium the Milan Curva Sud fans display a banner for him: «Legends have no colours».
Pianeta Milan · MilanNews · Milan Press · Sky Sport
Video
The two farewell videos published on YouTube after the deaths of Franco Baresi, on 31 July 2026, and Sandro Mazzola, on 19 September 2026. They load only when you press play.
From the photo collection
All records in the photo collection.
Where it continues
Sources for this page
What this page rests on
Two independent sources
Dates, measurements and names go through at least two sources that do not copy each other. Where it exists, we go to the original: the deed, the archive, the body that owns it. What appears in only one place waits.
One version only
If two sources disagree, the original document prevails. If even that is not enough, only the part they agree on is written: the year, for example, instead of the day.
Updated every day
The press review and calendar are updated every day. Everything else changes when a new document turns up, and then it changes everywhere at once.
From the community
Many memories, family photographs and tips come from people who live here, writing to the Facebook page. They are published only if the sender agrees. How to take part: Community.
Everything traceable
Sources are listed above and on the page Sources, with archive, shelfmark and terms of use.
No interpretation passed off as fact
An approximate figure stays approximate, a project stays a project until construction starts, and whatever does not add up stays out. The criteria are in Method.