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A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL

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00:00It is the 125th birthday of Milan and the mission is fulfilled.

00:07The remains of the founder of Milan go in their place, in the family of the illustrious Milanese, to the Monumental Cemetery of Milan.

00:15For several years there was already the inscription of Herbert Kilpin at the Milanese Pantheon,

00:21but now even his vibrant bones of Rosso Nero go to the right place, at the right time.

00:30For the ninth son of Edward Kilpin and Sarah Smith, there are still pilgrimages to Nottingham,

00:37to Mansfield Road, where he was born, in that subtle boundary between man and legend,

00:42which he investigates with his analysis, the historical lawyer Rosso Nero, Leandro Cantamessa.

00:48I have always wondered if Herbert Kilpin was a person turned legend or a legend turned person.

00:58I prefer this second solution, because its scope in the history of Milan

01:05resembles more to what belongs to the category of legends, rather than to what is human.

01:14It is moving, because this gentleman, who comes from England, from Nottingham,

01:22after having occupied, if it is true what I have read here and there,

01:27from Pizzi and Merletti, comes to work, first in Turin, then in Milan,

01:33and comes to invent football in this city, football that already existed in Genoa and Turin.

01:42This is a symbol, certainly, and seeing Kilpin in the photographs of the time

01:48is also vaguely paradoxical, because the shirt was what it was,

01:55but they played with long trousers and I don't think they had particular tactics when they went out on the pitch.

02:05The thing that makes even more impression is the distinction between that football

02:13and the football that has been played for many years, let's say until the 1960s, and today's football.

02:22I must say that, compared to that, it has lost a lot of romanticism and it is a sin, all considered.

02:30I conclude by saying what I have already said at the beginning, it is a legend, it was very good like that.

02:41Kilpin, on his land, was a footballer belonging to the second category of fans,

02:46but from us, at the end of the eighties, he was considered an ace.

02:51Herbert went down in history for his photo with the English cap,

02:56a red and black shirt with collar and Milan stamp, red cross in white field,

03:01long trousers made of canvas, almost like a screen, and socks supported by an elastic.

03:07Football was his true love, so much so that on the day of his marriage, in 1905,

03:12Kilpin flees to Genoa, where he is scheduled for a meeting between the Grasshoppers of Zurich

03:18and an Italian representative, let's hear the journalist of the Gazzetta dello Sport, Massimo Oriani.

03:26Without Herbert Kilpin, Milan would not exist. He was practically one of the fathers of Italian football.

03:32He started playing for Internazionale Torino, the first two Italian championships,

03:38lost against Genoa to the point that he promised his opponents that he would found a team that would beat them.

03:46So when he moved to Milan, he did, because he founded AC Milan,

03:51Milan Football and Cricket Club, with which he won the first Scudetto in 1901,

03:57and the motto, which is what we still hear today in San Siro before every game, is his.

04:03We will be a team of devils, our colors will be red like fire and black like the fear we will instill in our opponents.

04:11Unfortunately, he died very young, in 1916, his bones are still kept in the Famedio of the Monumental Cemetery of Milan,

04:21where there are the great protagonists of the history, not only clearly sporting, Milanese,

04:27and thanks to some great Milanese supporters, Luigi La Rocca, who is one of the great historic fans of Milan,

04:37a very beautiful documentary has also been shot, which can be found on YouTube, The Lord of Milan,

04:43where the whole history of Kilpin is retraced, and where you can also see how in his apartment,

04:49where he was born, above the butcher shop in Nottingham, there is now a plaque that recalls his birth,

04:56and there is a beautiful emblem of Milan on the window of that shop, which is currently unfortunately abandoned.

05:02However, Kilpin is the history of Milan, it is Milan.

05:07An all-round founder, he expressed himself in all roles, both managerial and sporting,

05:13he was in fact a defender, midfielder, attacker, coach, captain and manager, after being nothing less than the founder.

05:21And here is some analogy with what 87 years after Kilpin would have been the re-founder of Milan, Silvio Berlusconi,

05:30who was the owner, the president, the fan, the father of the players,

05:34and that if he had had a little more time, he would have gladly become the coach.

05:39But if Silvio was born in Milan, the city of Alessandro Manzoni, Herbert was born in Nottingham, the city of Robin Hood,

05:47as the historic black and red speaker, Gegio Lanzoni, recalls.

05:52We love Herbert Kilpin all his life.

05:55The wonderful origin, he was born in Nottingham, the city of Robin Hood,

06:00grandson and son of a butcher and a tailor, so a humble origin, but he does not stop,

06:06he begins to live his life as a worker.

06:09Nottingham was famous for Tessile, Pizzi and Merletti, and then he leaves his land to pursue his passion.

06:18This is, I think, the great strength that Herbert Kilpin gave to the history of Milan,

06:26without borders, where your passion takes you to the top.

06:31And Pizzi and Merletti, the details, the style, the search for beauty.

06:38I think his story is our DNA.

06:44His mythology is made by the flask that, according to some, he also carried on board,

06:50while the other Kilpinian icons are the mustache, the good whiskey and the cigarette.

06:56If you think of Herbert, passion, spontaneity, humanity come to mind.

07:02A sort of black and red baron in British style, a black and red thread of fate

07:07that makes it seem absolutely normal and consequential, then over the decades,

07:13that Mr. Paron could only become a Milanese.

07:17The thoughts and feelings of the famous journalist Andrea Vianello.

07:21For us Milanese Romans, who live a strange feeling, to love the team from our heart from afar,

07:29and here in this city, instead, to be, how to say, surrounded by the madness of Romanists and Laziari,

07:36the roots are important.

07:38And if they arrive at the end of the 20th century, it's another city, Milan.

07:43But when I chose to become a Milaner at the age of eight,

07:47I certainly did it because there were great players like Rivera, Prati, a wonderful team,

07:51but also for the colors.

07:53And who chose the colors? Our founder.

07:56With that wonderful phrase in which he said that we would become a team of devils,

08:03red like fire, black like the fear that we should instill in our opponents.

08:11That phrase is our passion.

08:16The remains of Herbert Kielpin, for years hidden, unknown to everyone,

08:21at the Major Cemetery in Milan, in the field reserved for the deceased Protestants,

08:25were found after careful research by a collector and historical memory of Milan,

08:31Luigi Larocca.

08:32And thanks to him, they were deposited, for the interest of the Rossoneri Society itself,

08:38in a tomb more consonant to his fame, in a column of the Monumental Cemetery of Milan.

08:44What remains today of all this?

08:47He tells it with his fresh and sparkling voice.

08:50The Milanese influencer, Alessandro Jacobone.

08:53Herbert Kielpin was not just a footballer, a dreamer, a revolutionary, as they say.

08:59With few friends and a passion for football, he founded AC Milan.

09:03Not for fun, but for love.

09:06Kielpin carried with him not only the English football technique,

09:10but also an idea of a team that would have united the whole city under one flag,

09:14obviously that of the Rossoneri.

09:16Thanks to him, Milan finds a sporting identity.

09:19And that small company, almost by chance, then becomes a legend.

09:24The legend that we all know.

09:26Herbert Kielpin is the beating heart of Milan,

09:28the first beat of a story destined to never end.

09:32This is his legacy, this is all the magic that accompanies him.

09:39In 1908, marred by ostracism for the contrariety of football faith to foreigners,

09:47and for the latest corporate affairs that had led to the foundation of Inter,

09:51Herbert played his last game with Milan on April 12, 1908.

09:57Leaving Milan, Kielpin remained for some time near the football he could not do without,

10:03coaching the boys of Enotria, a minor Milanese team.

10:07But health betrayed him and Herbert Kielpin disappeared prematurely on October 22, 1916.

10:15The place of the foundation, of the respect for the founder,

10:19was often occupied also by toasting every midnight of December 16 in the center of Milan,

10:25the historic Rossonero, Stefano Pozzoni.

10:28Herbert Kielpin represents one of the most selfless pioneers of Italian football,

10:32of which he widely imposed the elementary rules, both in the game and in the discipline of training.

10:37For Milan he represents the founding father of his first city sports company,

10:42born precisely for the game of football,

10:44which will immediately collect its first successes in the national field,

10:48and then become, in its 125 years of history,

10:51one of the most glorious and titled football companies in the world.

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