AC Milan defender Paolo Maldini lifts the 1994 European Cup after victory over B

The AC Milan side of the early 1990s wrote themselves into world soccer's history books as one of European club football's most effective and successful club sides ever and their 1994 European Cup final demolition of 1992 European champions Barcelona is perhaps their most explosive display of footballing power. To think that left back Paolo Maldini would still be playing at the top level for AC Milan fourteen years later at the age of 39 would have been unimaginable at the time but true class always shows through.