Un anno dopo

A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL

6/13/2024

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00:00The president of Brescone, as usual, came to Milanello on Saturday afternoon to say hello

00:07and before the usual chat he told me not to go into the room because he would need to talk to me.

00:14I was already a little worried, thinking that he would criticize me for not playing,

00:19that I had not yet expressed my potential.

00:23In short, I was a little worried.

00:25But in the end he took my side and told me,

00:27I heard that your mother is not well, that this week she went to San Raffaele to take the exams.

00:33Look, I'm here, always available for any emergency, I'm here.

00:38Call me if your mother has something or even if she has any problems,

00:43because there is only one mother and you always have to love her so much.

00:48Welcome, welcome to the world of Silvio.

00:51They called him Cavaliere, but also Il Dottore.

00:54They called him President, but also Sua Emittenza.

00:57Hard news, that of June 12, 2023.

01:00Yet, a year later, he is perhaps even more present,

01:03even more friendly, even more than the door next door.

01:06But do you remember Silvio?

01:08Oh yes, what years those years.

01:10Who knows how many evenings, between ex-Frareduci, between Milanese of yesterday, today and tomorrow,

01:15how many evenings end like this?

01:17With episodes very similar to the one told in the opening by Aldo Serena.

01:21With a sigh and a smile, thinking of how unique, particular, different, fresh, generous and overwhelming he was.

01:28I have an anecdote, a memory, about President Berlusconi.

01:32Surely there are many, but the most beautiful were his phone calls,

01:36which happened after the games or before the games,

01:40or when he scored a goal or made a great performance.

01:45He called me, complimented me, we talked a little about the team.

01:50He always had beautiful words for me.

01:54But the most beautiful was surely the first time he called me,

01:58when I signed for Milan.

02:02He told me, I was informed by my friends in Bergamo,

02:07and they all told me that I have taken a great player.

02:11In addition, I saw that you have neither earrings nor tattoos,

02:16so you are perfect for Milan.

02:19This was our first phone call, a beautiful memory.

02:24He is a special person.

02:27He gave a lot to me, to Milan and to all Milanese.

02:31Surely I will never forget him for everything he did for us.

02:36He received so much, like Jack Bonaventura, but also like many others.

02:40He is happy to tell it, to share it.

02:44You can also feel it in the strings, in the nuances, in the words of Christian Brocchi.

02:50President Berlusconi was a unique, inimitable person.

02:54He was one of those people who, when you were in close contact with him,

03:00you received from a dinner, from a chat, from something different

03:06compared to what could be something public,

03:10he gave you such a great energy, so strong,

03:14that you could really do anything.

03:18He was a gem, he was perhaps the only one

03:24who, whatever he said, then did and managed to do,

03:30he created something incredibly great

03:34and every time he set a goal, he really managed to achieve it.

03:39And all the people who were by his side,

03:42they mentalized and he managed to mentalize them

03:46so that this could happen.

03:49This recognition of Silvio Berlusconi

03:52does not need to be stimulated or heated.

03:55It happens spontaneously, with thoughts that run free,

03:58dissolved, happy to have lived, satisfied to have been there,

04:02with the scent of history that accompanies every consideration.

04:06I often think of August 3, 1986.

04:10On that occasion we played a friendly against Parma

04:13and the coach of Parma was Rigosacchi.

04:16That evening the president fell in love with Rigosacchi and his game

04:21and there is an anecdote that I think never came out.

04:24We seriously risked not going to that game

04:27because we were in Portofino, in the president's villa, L'Olivetta,

04:31and to go to the heliport to see the game

04:34we had to make a journey by motorboat

04:37and we were hit by a terrible tsunami.

04:40We had to go back to the villa, take a shower

04:43and the president lent us clothes to be able to go

04:46because my father and I were completely washed like him.

04:50Many times I ask myself, if I had not had this desire to go to see the game

04:54and if I had taken a little laziness,

04:57probably the history of Milan would have been different.

05:00Gianluca Gagliani's voice refers to that game of almost 40 years ago

05:04at Stadio Tardini in Parma, when Bussi, Bianchi and Bortolazzi,

05:08a row, were still playing for the Emiliani

05:11when Barone Lidholm was a granite institution

05:14and when Arrigo Sacchi was just a possible rampant of the benches of the future.

05:19One evening, that of Parma, that of the lightning strike,

05:22instead, that arrived two weeks later, the Arena di Milano.

05:26For me, President Berlusconi is that president who got off

05:29with a helicopter that July at the Arena di Milano,

05:32took a Milan that had just risen from Serie B

05:35and took it to the top of the world.

05:38There is nothing else to add.

05:40That is the parable that has changed forever the history of the Milanese fans.

05:46It has created for us a memory that will remain forever in our hearts.

05:51Thank you, President.

05:53Franz's voice, the protagonist of the comic duo with Ale,

05:56is a memory still alive, always alive.

05:59At the Casa Milan Museum, strongly wanted by his daughter Barbara,

06:02in the clothes of the administrator delegato Rossonero,

06:05is always present the representation of the helicopter

06:08with which Silvio Berlusconi landed at the Arena di Milano on July 18, 1986

06:13to officially start his presidency of Milan.

06:16In his time, his era, an installation consisting of 50 kg of iron wire

06:22is placed on a reproduction of the arena seen from above,

06:25while on the background, the images of Berlusconi's landing

06:29accompanied in the background, just like then,

06:32by the Valkyrie's ride of Wagner.

06:35A few days ago I was asked to choose between Guardiola and Ancelotti,

06:39and the thing was quite useless.

06:41I am opposed to this question,

06:43in the sense that, in my opinion, they are two extraordinary excellences

06:46of two small different categories.

06:48On the one hand, a coach who continues to win with his empathy,

06:51with his knowledge of football, obviously,

06:53with his good sense throughout Milan, and he is a legendary figure.

06:56On the other hand, there is a coach who has won a lot, Guardiola,

06:59who has innovated.

07:00I tell you this because not always in the history of football

07:03innovation goes hand in hand with success.

07:05In the case of Silvio Berlusconi, these two elements come together,

07:09because Berlusconi is one who has won a lot, a lot in his career,

07:12but he has won by innovating, he has won by completely changing football.

07:16He has changed everything, he has changed the conception of a football club,

07:19he has made it modern, he has dragged football into a new era,

07:23he has dragged the market of television rights and the relationship

07:26between football and television in a completely new way,

07:29in a completely new era.

07:32I can only tell you that I have seen that charisma

07:37in the few times I have met him, in the times I have interviewed him,

07:40in the times I have seen him at Mediaset.

07:43We are talking about an absolutely brilliant figure

07:46who has made that Milan something completely new,

07:49completely different from everything that was there before.

07:53A perfect mix of family on one side and business on the other.

07:58The maximum professionalism and therefore the maximum search for excellence,

08:02but united by a sense of identity, of belonging that is truly unique.

08:06He is an extraordinary figure who has made the history of football

08:09and who must be remembered as a great innovator, as a great winner.

08:13That overpowering find of the Arena di Milano

08:16had divided and made the journalists jump too,

08:19but today, as the narration of Pierluigi Pardo has just confirmed,

08:23everything has solidified, everything is univocal.

08:26Silvio Berlusconi's sporting reinterpretation is pacified,

08:29serene, tends to beauty, as it is right for those who have had a new vision

08:35and who then had the strength to pursue it, beyond any reasonable doubt.

08:39I have a beautiful memory of President Berlusconi

08:42since the first day I met him in Milanello,

08:45the day of my presentation together with other teammates,

08:49when he said that he wanted me for my way of being

08:54a winner, a goalkeeper who also went to score in attack,

08:58it was beautiful.

09:00Then, in all the years I've been in Milan,

09:04he always had great words for me,

09:07but then you also saw the thickness of a man

09:10who has done so much, has given so much to so many people,

09:14above all he has given a great mentality,

09:18together with Dr. Gagliani,

09:20to a club that has become the most beautiful club in the world.

09:26The others don't want it bad,

09:29but I think that Berlusconi's Milan has also been

09:32the verdict of many champions who have played in the great clubs,

09:35the most beautiful club in the world.

09:39The man of sparkles, Silvio, of idyll.

09:42Each of us, each of you, thinking about ours,

09:45about your own life, remember where you were

09:47when something important had happened.

09:49In his own existence, or in the history of human events,

09:52for those who have known him, it is very clear

09:55the memory of what he did and where he was,

09:58when he met Silvio Berlusconi for the first time.

10:01As one of his goalkeepers, one of his lighthouse keepers,

10:05Marco Ameglia, just confirmed, but not only.

10:08My first meeting, quite by chance,

10:11with Silvio Berlusconi, at the time,

10:15already its publication in the newspapers

10:18and a cry for Italian entrepreneurship,

10:23took place in December 1985

10:27in the austere salons of the Savini restaurant

10:30in the heart of Milan, Vittorio Emanuele's gallery.

10:34In that circumstance,

10:36at the time I was working for Il Corriere dello Sport,

10:40I was called for the press conference

10:43at the end of the year, promoted by Milan,

10:46with the presence of Giussi Farina, the president,

10:50and Cardillo, who was the general director of Milan.

10:54At the same time, in another room of the Savini restaurant,

10:59a meeting of the Rotary Club was taking place.

11:04And in this meeting of the Rotary Club

11:07there was, among others, Peppino Prisco,

11:09who, as soon as he was informed by the waiters

11:13of the presence of journalists and Giussi Farina,

11:16came to greet us and above all he came to inform us

11:20that at his own table there was Silvio Berlusconi,

11:24also a Rotarian.

11:26While he was about to finish his breakfast with Farina,

11:29at a certain point Silvio Berlusconi appeared.

11:32And I gave a very long and very detailed interview

11:38in which, for the first time, Silvio Berlusconi

11:41openly declared his interest in Milan

11:46and, above all, in Farina,

11:49to quickly close the deal.

11:52When I reread that interview today,

11:55I remember exactly the masterful film

12:00that Silvio Berlusconi made

12:03at the helm of Milan for 30 very long years.

12:07Among the many memories of Silvio Berlusconi,

12:10certainly my first meeting at Arcone,

12:13the presentation of his first Milan,

12:16with coach Lidholm,

12:18lunch with all the players,

12:20then the team leaves for the retreat of Pipiteno

12:24and Berlusconi signs with all the journalists,

12:27there were no more than a dozen of us.

12:30He takes off his jacket, takes us to the garden

12:33and starts talking about his ideas of a revolutionary football,

12:37of economy, of finance, incredible works

12:40in which I met his charisma

12:43and his great ability as a visionary

12:46to convince his interlocutors.

12:50The voices of the journalists Franco Ordine and Luca Serafini

12:52are those of those years,

12:54when the phrase came up,

12:55we are Milan,

12:56which for decades it was impossible not only to pronounce,

12:58but also to conceive.

13:00The years of transfers, flights,

13:02the absence of borders and the discovery of the new.

13:04A smiling aggression,

13:06intense and convincing,

13:08that of Silvio,

13:09a man who has always smelled of goals and work,

13:11of family and goals.

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