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#5 Alberto Brignoli wins Benevento's first ever Serie A point

Alberto Brignoli celebrates the greatest moment of his footballing career

Benevento Calcio have been around as a football club, under different guises, for 88 years. They've been a top-division club for only 6 months of that time, though.

And it's not been a happy time.

They lost their first 14 matches - a record in the top-flight for Europe's top five leagues - and it looked very much like that most unwanted of records would continue growing when they welcomed the might of AC Milan. Sure, the Rossoneri are a shadow of their former selves and are in the middle of one of the toughest rebuilding jobs in history - but come on, this is Milan.

With 94 minutes having been played, Milan were on course for a routine 2-1 win when the worst top-division club Europe has ever seen (statistically, of course) won a free-kick on the left flank. I'll let Benevento's keeper take it from here:

“The boss didn’t want me to go up,” said Alberto Brignoli afterwards. “He can be stubborn but I’m even more so. I said: ‘I’m going. I’m going, and that’s that.’ I leapt like a goalkeeper, not an attacker. They tell me that I looked like Aldo in the scene from [the movie] ‘Tre uomini e una gamba’ (Three men and one leg), and they are right. I was a bit crooked. I closed my eyes.”.... and he scored.

Benevento's first ever Serie A point, and it came with a cracking goal from their goalkeeper.

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