Herbert Kilpin History

Herbert Kilpin History

  Herbert Kilpin (Born in Nottingham, England, January 24, 1870 - died October 22, 1916 at age 46) is an English football pioneer, player and manager. He is famous as the founder of the Italian club AC Milan. He began his career in his hometown, playing for Nottingham and Notts Olympic. Subsequently, he played for the Saint Andrews, before he moved to Italy in 1891 and became a member of Internazionale Torino. In 1898, he moved to Milan. There, he and his friend, Alfred Edwards founded the Milan Cricket and Football Club, the forerunner to the Italian giants, AC Milan.

Herbert Kilpin

   Herbert Kilpin, became the first captain Rosoneri, as well as the first coach. He played for eight seasons in Milan and won three local titles (1901, 1906, 1907). He quit his career with Milan when non-Italian players banned from playing in the league. When World War II raging, he remained in Italy, until he died in 1916. He was cremated in Milan Muncipal Cemetery, Milan. In 1990 he was back in the Monumental Graveyard cremated, and AC Milan accounted for a tombstone as a mark of respect.

   Herbert Kilpin was born in Nottingham on January 24, 1870, the son of a butcher, and grow by nine older brothers and sisters in 129 Mansfield Road. After leaving school he worked as an assistant lace warehouse in the city. He was a keen soccer player and, aged only 13; he has taken part in the bottom of a small amateur club named after the Italian national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, the players wearing distinctive red shirts. Kilpin's football career that continued with the now-defunct Notts Olympic and then to St Andrews, a church team based near the Forest Recreation Ground on Gregory Boulevard, where he played as a defender and midfielder.

    In the year 1891, Kilpin moved to Turin, in Italy, in order to work for Edoardo Bosio, an Italian-Swiss textile merchant with links to the Nottingham lace manufacturer. In the same year Bosio founded Internazionale Torino, believed to be the first Italian football club. Kilpin played for the team, becoming the first ever to play English football abroad. During this time, he was to take part in the first two editions of the Italian Football Championship, losing twice in the final against Genoa.

  By 1898, Kilpin has left Turin and settled in Milan with fellow England Samuel Richard Davies. The following year, they are one of the charter members of AC Milan, which was originally named Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club. The first elected president was Alfred Edwards, while Kilpin, who said their most experienced men, will serve as player-manager. However, he decided to let the oldest team-mate David Allison became the first captain for the season.

 The newly established club proved immediately successful, since they won the national title in 1901, only the second season of their history. Kilpin spent nine seasons at the club, making a total of 23 appearances and scored 7 goals, and led the Rossoneri two more titles in 1906 and 1907.

 Herbert Kilpin pension in 1908 and little is known about the life Kilpin thereafter. He died on October 22, 1916, aged only 46, probably because of drinking and smoking habits. During the 1990s an amateur historian named Luigi La Rocca track grave Kilpin, who had long believed to have been lost, in the City Cemetery in Milan. It has no reference to the name and is located in the cemetery reserved for Protestants. Therefore, in 1999, the centenary club, AC Milan paid for a new headstone at the grave Monumental. After the petition, on November 2, 2010, inducted into Famedio Kilpin, the main building of the cemetery, where tombs of the city're most famous personalities located.