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{{Short description|English footballer (1870–1916)}}
{{Short description|English footballer (1870–1916)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
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| name = Herbert Kilpin
| name = Herbert Kilpin
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1870|01|24|df=y}}
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| death_place = [[Milan]], Italy
| death_place = [[Milan]], Italy
| height =
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| position = [[Utility player#Association football|Utility player]]
| position = [[Utility player (association football)|Utility player]]
| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Garibaldi Nottingham
| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Garibaldi Nottingham
| years1 = | clubs1 = Notts Olympic | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years1 = | clubs1 = [[Notts Olympic F.C.|Notts Olympic]] | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years2 = | clubs2 = Saint Andrews | caps2 = | goals2 =
| years2 = | clubs2 = Saint Andrews | caps2 = | goals2 =
| years3 = 1891–1899 | clubs3 = [[Internazionale F.C. Torino|Internazionale Torino]] | caps3 = | goals3 =
| years3 = | clubs3 = {{ill|Torino Football & Cricket Club|it}} | caps3 = | goals3 =
| years4 = 1899–1908 | clubs4 = [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]] | caps4 = 23 | goals4 = 7
| years4 = 1891–1899 | clubs4 = [[Internazionale F.C. Torino|Internazionale Torino]] | caps4 = | goals4 =
| years5 = 1899–1908 | clubs5 = [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]] | caps5 = 23 | goals5 = 7
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| manageryears1 = 1899–1906 | managerclubs1 = [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]]
| manageryears1 = 1899–1906 | managerclubs1 = [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]]
}}
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'''Herbert Kilpin''' (24 January 1870 – 22 October 1916) was an English [[Association football|football]] player and [[Manager (association football)|manager]], best known as the main founding father of [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]]. After playing as an amateur in his native city of [[Nottingham]], in the early 1890s he moved to Italy to work in the textile industry and he became one of the pioneers of football in the country, first as a player for [[Internazionale F.C. Torino|Internazionale Torino]] and then as player, manager, and charter member of Milan.
'''Herbert Kilpin''' (24 January 1870 – 22 October 1916) was an English [[association football|football]] player and [[manager (association football)|manager]], best known as the main founding father of [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]]. After playing as an amateur in his native city of [[Nottingham]], in the early 1890s he moved to Italy to work in the textile industry and he became one of the pioneers of football in the country, first as a player for [[Internazionale F.C. Torino|Internazionale Torino]] and then as player, manager, and charter member of Milan.


==Early years==
==Early years==
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Kilpin's footballing career went on with the recently re-established Notts Olympic and then for St. Andrews, a church team based near the Forest Recreation Ground on Gregory Boulevard, where he played as a [[Defender (association football)|defender]] and [[midfielder]].<ref name="bbc"/>
Kilpin's footballing career went on with the recently re-established Notts Olympic and then for St. Andrews, a church team based near the Forest Recreation Ground on Gregory Boulevard, where he played as a [[Defender (association football)|defender]] and [[midfielder]].<ref name="bbc"/>


In 1891, Kilpin moved to [[Turin]], in Italy, in order to work for [[Edoardo Bosio]], an Italian-Swiss textile merchant with links to a Nottingham lace manufacturer. In the same year Bosio founded [[Internazionale F.C. Torino|Internazionale Torino]], believed to be the first full fledged Italian football club. Kilpin played for the team, becoming the first-ever Englishman to play football abroad.<ref name="bbc"/> During this time, he also took part in the first two editions of the [[Italian Football Championship]], losing both times in the final against [[Genoa C.F.C.|Genoa]].<ref name="magliarossonera"/>
In 1891, Kilpin moved to [[Turin]], in Italy, in order to work for [[Edoardo Bosio]], an Italian-Swiss textile merchant with links to a Nottingham lace manufacturer. In the same year Bosio founded [[Internazionale F.C. Torino|Internazionale Torino]], believed to be the first full-fledged Italian football club. Kilpin played for the team, as well as {{ill|Torino Football & Cricket Club|it}},<ref>{{cite web |url=http://faccedatoro.altervista.org/campionato-calcio/1906-fondazione-torino-football-club.html|title=Dicembre 1906 - Fondazione Torino Football Club
|website=Facce da Toro|accessdate=10 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614021357/http://faccedatoro.altervista.org/campionato-calcio/1906-fondazione-torino-football-club.html|archive-date=14 June 2018|url-status=dead|language=it}}</ref> becoming the first-ever Englishman to play football abroad.<ref name="bbc"/> During this time, he also took part in the first two editions of the [[Italian Football Championship]], losing both times in the final against [[Genoa C.F.C.|Genoa]].<ref name="magliarossonera"/>


===Founding of AC Milan===
===Founding of AC Milan===
[[File:Herbert Kilpin - Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club.jpg|thumb|right|Kilpin wearing the characteristic Milan shirt of the early 1900s.]]
By 1898, Kilpin had already left Turin and settled in [[Milan]] with fellow Englishman [[Samuel Richard Davies]]. The following year, the duo were among the charter members of [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]], under the original name of ''Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club''. The first elected president was [[Alfred Edwards (football executive)|Alfred Edwards]]; while Kilpin, who was arguably their most experienced man, would serve as [[player-manager]]. However, he decided to let his oldest teammate [[David Allison (footballer)|David Allison]] be the [[Captain (association football)|captain]] for the first season.<ref>{{cite web |title=La nascita di una mito |url=http://www.magliarossonera.it/189900_storia.html |work=magliarossonera.it |access-date=18 June 2010 |language=it}}</ref>
By 1898, Kilpin had already left Turin and settled in [[Milan]] with fellow Englishman [[Samuel Richard Davies]]. The following year, the duo were among the charter members of [[A.C. Milan|AC Milan]], under the original name of ''Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club''. The first elected president was [[Alfred Edwards (football executive)|Alfred Edwards]]; while Kilpin, who was arguably their most experienced man, would serve as [[player-manager]]. However, he decided to let his oldest teammate [[David Allison (footballer)|David Allison]] be the [[Captain (association football)|captain]] for the first season.<ref>{{cite web |title=La nascita di una mito |url=http://www.magliarossonera.it/189900_storia.html |work=magliarossonera.it |access-date=18 June 2010 |language=it}}</ref>


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==Retirement and death==
==Retirement and death==
Kilpin married Maria Capua, a woman from [[Lodi, Lombardy|Lodi]], in 1905.<ref name="magliarossonera"/> Little is known about his life after he retired from football. He died on 22 October 1916, aged 46, probably due to his drinking and smoking habits.<ref name="magliarossonera"/> During the 1990s, an amateur historian named Luigi La Rocca tracked down Kilpin's grave, which was long believed to have been lost, in the Municipal Cemetery in Milan. It had no reference to his name and was located in a part of the cemetery reserved for Protestants. Therefore, in 1999, the club's centenary year, AC Milan paid for a new tombstone in the [[Cimitero Monumentale di Milano|Monumental Graveyard]].<ref name="bbc"/> Following a petition, on 2 November 2010, Kilpin was inducted into the ''Famedio'', the main building of the graveyard, where the tombs of the city's most illustrious personalities are located.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kilpin in the Famedio today |url=http://www.acmilan.com/en/news/show/130495 |work=acmilan.com |publisher={{Lang|it|[[A.C. Milan|Associazione Calcio Milan]]|italic=no}} |date=2 November 2010 |access-date=6 February 2011}}</ref>
Kilpin married Maria Capua, a woman from [[Lodi, Lombardy|Lodi]], in 1905.<ref name="magliarossonera"/> Little is known about his life after he retired from football. He died in [[Milan]] on 22 October 1916, aged 46, probably due to his drinking and smoking habits.<ref name="magliarossonera"/> During the 1990s, an amateur historian named Luigi La Rocca tracked down Kilpin's grave, which was long believed to have been lost, in the Municipal Cemetery in Milan. It had no reference to his name and was located in a part of the cemetery reserved for Protestants. Therefore, in 1999, the club's centenary year, AC Milan paid for a new tombstone in the [[Cimitero Monumentale di Milano|Monumental Graveyard]].<ref name="bbc"/> Following a petition, on 2 November 2010, Kilpin was inducted into the ''Famedio'', the main building of the graveyard, where the tombs of the city's most illustrious personalities are located.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kilpin in the Famedio today |url=http://www.acmilan.com/en/news/show/130495 |work=acmilan.com |publisher={{Lang|it|[[A.C. Milan|Associazione Calcio Milan]]|italic=no}} |date=2 November 2010 |access-date=6 February 2011}}</ref>


==''The Lord of Milan'' book and film==
==''The Lord of Milan'' book and film==
Kilpin's story was forgotten after his death, but in 2016, author Robert Nieri released a book about his life called ''The Lord of Milan''. It was part biography and part fiction. The author has admitted that details about Kilpin life were so scarce that he could not complete a full biography.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nottinghamcityofliterature.com/blog/the-lord-of-milan |title=The Lord of Milan |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 24 March 2017 |website=[[Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature]] }}</ref> The same year, a team from [[LeftLion]] began filming a documentary about Herbert Kilpin's life in both the UK and Italy. The film features commentary from Robert Nieri, Luigi La Rocca, [[Mark Hateley]], [[Luther Blissett]], [[Daniele Massaro]], [[Giovanni Lodetti]], [[John Foot (historian)|John Foot]] and many others. The film was shown at cinemas and film festivals across Europe in 2017 and 2018 and eventually released online and on DVD in January 2019. It won two awards at the Olympic-accredited FICTS Film Festival in Milan in October 2017 and has since toured China.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2018/august/lord-of-milan-beijing-international-sports-film-week |title= LeftLion's Feature-Length Documentary The Lord of Milan Goes To China |date=31 August 2018 |website=[[LeftLion]] }}</ref>
Kilpin's story was forgotten after his death, but in 2016, author Robert Nieri released a book about his life called ''The Lord of Milan''. It was part biography and part fiction. The author has admitted that details about Kilpin's life were so scarce that he could not complete a full biography.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nottinghamcityofliterature.com/blog/the-lord-of-milan |title=The Lord of Milan |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 24 March 2017 |website=[[Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature]] }}</ref> The same year, a team from [[LeftLion]] began filming a documentary about Herbert Kilpin's life in both the UK and Italy. The film features commentary from Robert Nieri, Luigi La Rocca, [[Mark Hateley]], [[Luther Blissett]], [[Daniele Massaro]], [[Giovanni Lodetti]], [[John Foot (historian)|John Foot]] and many others. The film was shown at cinemas and film festivals across Europe in 2017 and 2018 and eventually released online and on DVD in January 2019. It won two awards at the Olympic-accredited FICTS Film Festival in Milan in October 2017 and has since toured China.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2018/august/lord-of-milan-beijing-international-sports-film-week |title= LeftLion's Feature-Length Documentary The Lord of Milan Goes To China |date=31 August 2018 |website=[[LeftLion]] }}</ref>


==Honours==
==Honours==

===Player===
*'''Milan FBCC'''
**[[Italian Football Championship]]: [[1901 Italian Football Championship|1901]],<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.acmilan.com/it/club/palmares/scudetto-1901l|title=Scudetto 1901|publisher=acmilan.com|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref> [[1906 Prima Categoria|1906]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acmilan.com/it/club/palmares/scudetto-1906|title=Scudetto 1906|publisher=acmilan.com|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref> [[1907 Prima Categoria|1907]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acmilan.com/it/club/palmares/scudetto-1907|title=Scudetto 1907|publisher=acmilan.com|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref>
===Manager===
*'''Milan FBCC'''
**[[Italian Football Championship]]: 1901<ref name="auto"/>


===Other competitions===
===Other competitions===
*'''[[A.C. Milan|Milan FBCC]]'''
*'''Milan FBCC'''
**Medaglia del Re<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/ital-medagliadire.html|title=Italy - Medaglia di Re|publisher=rsssf.org|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref>: 1900, 1901, 1902
**Medaglia del Re:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/ital-medagliadire.html|title=Italy - Medaglia di Re|publisher=rsssf.org|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref> 1900, 1901, 1902
**FGNI tournament<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/27519528/I_DIAVOLI_FANNO_GINNASTICA._STORIA_DEL_MILAN_CAMPIONE_DELLA_FGI|title=I diavoli fanno ginnastica|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref>: 1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907
**FGNI tournament:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/27519528/I_DIAVOLI_FANNO_GINNASTICA._STORIA_DEL_MILAN_CAMPIONE_DELLA_FGI|title=I diavoli fanno ginnastica|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref> 1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907
** Palla Dapples<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.magliarossonera.it/Rubr-Dapples.html|title=Palla d'argento Henry Dapples|publisher=magliarossonera.it|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref>: 23 times, from 1905 to 1908
** Palla Dapples:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.magliarossonera.it/Rubr-Dapples.html|title=Palla d'argento Henry Dapples|publisher=magliarossonera.it|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref> 23 times, from 1905 to 1908


===Individual===
===Individual===
*A.C. Milan Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acmilan.com/en/herbert-kilpin|title=A.C. Milan Hall of Fame: Herbert Kilpin|publisher=A.C. Milan|access-date=12 May 2017}}</ref>
*AC Milan Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.acmilan.com/en/herbert-kilpin|title=A.C. Milan Hall of Fame: Herbert Kilpin|publisher=A.C. Milan|access-date=12 May 2017}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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*[http://www.magliarossonera.it/protagonisti/Gioc-Kilpin.html Profile] at magliarossonera.it {{in lang|it}}
*[http://www.magliarossonera.it/protagonisti/Gioc-Kilpin.html Profile] at magliarossonera.it {{in lang|it}}
*[http://lordofmilan.com The Lord of Milan: The Herbert Kilpin Story]
*[http://lordofmilan.com The Lord of Milan: The Herbert Kilpin Story]

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Herbert Kilpin
Personal information
Date of birth (1870-01-24)24 January 1870
Place of birth Nottingham, England
Date of death 22 October 1916(1916-10-22) (aged 46)
Place of death Milan, Italy
Position(s) Utility player
Youth career
Garibaldi Nottingham
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Notts Olympic
Saint Andrews
Torino Football & Cricket Club [it]
1891–1899 Internazionale Torino
1899–1908 AC Milan 23 (7)
Managerial career
1899–1906 AC Milan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Herbert Kilpin (24 January 1870 – 22 October 1916) was an English football player and manager, best known as the main founding father of AC Milan. After playing as an amateur in his native city of Nottingham, in the early 1890s he moved to Italy to work in the textile industry and he became one of the pioneers of football in the country, first as a player for Internazionale Torino and then as player, manager, and charter member of Milan.

Early years

Kilpin was born in Nottingham on 24 January 1870. The son of a butcher, he grew up with nine older siblings at 129 Mansfield Road — though the place has been renumbered to 191 Mansfield Road since 1895.[1] After leaving school, he worked as a lace warehouse assistant in the city.[2] He was a keen footballer and, aged only 13, he had taken part at the foundation of a small amateur club named after Italian national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, whose players wore the typical red shirts.[3]

Club career

From England to Italy

Kilpin's footballing career went on with the recently re-established Notts Olympic and then for St. Andrews, a church team based near the Forest Recreation Ground on Gregory Boulevard, where he played as a defender and midfielder.[2]

In 1891, Kilpin moved to Turin, in Italy, in order to work for Edoardo Bosio, an Italian-Swiss textile merchant with links to a Nottingham lace manufacturer. In the same year Bosio founded Internazionale Torino, believed to be the first full-fledged Italian football club. Kilpin played for the team, as well as Torino Football & Cricket Club [it],[4] becoming the first-ever Englishman to play football abroad.[2] During this time, he also took part in the first two editions of the Italian Football Championship, losing both times in the final against Genoa.[3]

Founding of AC Milan

Kilpin wearing the characteristic Milan shirt of the early 1900s.

By 1898, Kilpin had already left Turin and settled in Milan with fellow Englishman Samuel Richard Davies. The following year, the duo were among the charter members of AC Milan, under the original name of Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club. The first elected president was Alfred Edwards; while Kilpin, who was arguably their most experienced man, would serve as player-manager. However, he decided to let his oldest teammate David Allison be the captain for the first season.[5]

The newly founded club proved immediately successful, as 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 scoring 7 goals, and led the Rossoneri to two more titles in 1906 and 1907.[3]

Retirement and death

Kilpin married Maria Capua, a woman from Lodi, in 1905.[3] Little is known about his life after he retired from football. He died in Milan on 22 October 1916, aged 46, probably due to his drinking and smoking habits.[3] During the 1990s, an amateur historian named Luigi La Rocca tracked down Kilpin's grave, which was long believed to have been lost, in the Municipal Cemetery in Milan. It had no reference to his name and was located in a part of the cemetery reserved for Protestants. Therefore, in 1999, the club's centenary year, AC Milan paid for a new tombstone in the Monumental Graveyard.[2] Following a petition, on 2 November 2010, Kilpin was inducted into the Famedio, the main building of the graveyard, where the tombs of the city's most illustrious personalities are located.[6]

The Lord of Milan book and film

Kilpin's story was forgotten after his death, but in 2016, author Robert Nieri released a book about his life called The Lord of Milan. It was part biography and part fiction. The author has admitted that details about Kilpin's life were so scarce that he could not complete a full biography.[7] The same year, a team from LeftLion began filming a documentary about Herbert Kilpin's life in both the UK and Italy. The film features commentary from Robert Nieri, Luigi La Rocca, Mark Hateley, Luther Blissett, Daniele Massaro, Giovanni Lodetti, John Foot and many others. The film was shown at cinemas and film festivals across Europe in 2017 and 2018 and eventually released online and on DVD in January 2019. It won two awards at the Olympic-accredited FICTS Film Festival in Milan in October 2017 and has since toured China.[8]

Honours

Player

Manager

Other competitions

  • Milan FBCC
    • Medaglia del Re:[12] 1900, 1901, 1902
    • FGNI tournament:[13] 1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907
    • Palla Dapples:[14] 23 times, from 1905 to 1908

Individual

  • AC Milan Hall of Fame[15]

References

  1. ^ "Desperately seeking football legend Kilpin's birthplace? Better check that address!". Nottingham Post. Local World. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d Neil Heath (17 November 2009). "AC Milan's Nottingham-born hero". BBC Nottingham. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Herbert Kilpin". magliarossonera.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  4. ^ "Dicembre 1906 - Fondazione Torino Football Club". Facce da Toro (in Italian). Archived from the original on 14 June 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  5. ^ "La nascita di una mito". magliarossonera.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  6. ^ "Kilpin in the Famedio today". acmilan.com. Associazione Calcio Milan. 2 November 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  7. ^ "The Lord of Milan". Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature. 24 March 2017.
  8. ^ "LeftLion's Feature-Length Documentary The Lord of Milan Goes To China". LeftLion. 31 August 2018.
  9. ^ a b "Scudetto 1901". acmilan.com. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Scudetto 1906". acmilan.com. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Scudetto 1907". acmilan.com. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  12. ^ "Italy - Medaglia di Re". rsssf.org. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  13. ^ "I diavoli fanno ginnastica". Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  14. ^ "Palla d'argento Henry Dapples". magliarossonera.it. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  15. ^ "A.C. Milan Hall of Fame: Herbert Kilpin". A.C. Milan. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
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