the trophy is said to be a jinx, as whoever wins it that year will fail out to reach out the Scudetto the same year. At first this just seems a strange quirk, but it becomes even more remarkable when you consider that in the last 16 years Milan or Juventus have won the Scudetto ten times if we include the Bianconeri’s revoked titles. Take Inter’s recent winning run into account and it gets stranger still.
Indeed between 1995 and 1999 the loser went on to lift the Scudetto each season, the run being broken by Lazio’s title win in 2001.
The curse is so embedded in Italian footballing lore that in 2002, when the game went to penalties, Ciro Ferrara intentionally missed a penalty that led to Milan winning. Paolo Maldini buried his head in his hands upon realising they had won. The myth was further reinforced last season, when Marco Motta scored the winning penalty for Juve and Milan went on to lift the 2010-11 Scudetto.