Ruben Amorim Aims for Historic Start with Milan
Ruben Amorim walks into Turin with history at his shoulder.
Two games, two wins, six points. Milan have started the 2026-27 Serie A campaign with a sharpness that suggests their new coach has wasted no time imposing his ideas: a gritty 2-1 victory away to Torino, then a controlled 2-0 win over Venezia at San Siro. Promising, yes. But now comes the first real measurement of what this new Milan might be.
Juventus away. Sunday night. A fixture that strips away illusions.
Chasing ghosts of greatness
The numbers are simple, the context anything but. If Amorim wins in Turin, he will become the first Milan coach since 1958 to win his first three league matches in charge. Not even the giants whose shadows still loom over Milanello managed that.
Arrigo Sacchi. Fabio Capello. Carlo Ancelotti. Three names that defined eras, reshaped the club, and stacked the trophy cabinet. None of them opened their Serie A reign with three straight victories.
Sacchi stumbled in his second league game. Fiorentina beat his Milan thanks to goals from Ramon Diaz and a young Roberto Baggio, long before the ponytail became a national icon. It was a reminder that revolutions, even Sacchi’s, rarely run in straight lines.
Capello started more briskly in 1991. Two wins from his first two Serie A outings, Milan already looking like a machine being rebuilt rather than reinvented. Then came his third match. Juventus away. A 1-1 draw. Solid, respectable, but not perfection.
Ancelotti’s beginning was slower still. His first Serie A match in charge of Milan, in 2001, finished 0-0 against Piacenza. No disaster, no drama, just a quiet start for a man who would later bring the club some of its most cherished nights.
Amorim now stands on the brink of bettering all three.
A record frozen in time
Only three coaches in Milan’s history have won their first three league games in charge, and the last of them did so when the world – and the sport – looked very different.
Mario Sperone achieved it in 1952. Gipo Viani repeated the trick in 1956. Cina Bonizzoni followed in 1958, the most recent man to launch a Milan tenure with three straight Serie A victories. Since then, almost seven decades of managers, philosophies, and projects have come and gone without anyone matching that start.
The list is short. The gap is enormous.
That is what awaits Amorim on Sunday: not just Juventus, not just the tension of a heavyweight clash early in the season, but a chance to write his name alongside coaches whose achievements sit in dusty record books rather than fresh memory.
A different kind of early-season test
This is not a title decider. It will not define Milan’s season in May. Yet it carries a weight that goes beyond the table.
Win, and Amorim does something Sacchi, Capello and Ancelotti never did. He would walk back into Milanello not only with nine points from nine, but with a marker laid down – to his squad, to the league, to the club’s own history.
Lose, or even draw, and the numbers simply fold back into the usual rhythm of a long campaign. Still a good start, still encouraging, but no line in the record books, no echo of 1958.
For now, the equation is clear. Ninety minutes in Turin separate Ruben Amorim from a piece of Milan history that has been locked away for 68 years.
