At San Siro before the match against Genoa the anniversary celebration: from the founder Kilpin to the entry of the two legends into the Rossoneri Hall of Fame, chills (not just from the cold) and many old friends. The banner of the curve: “A Milan that no longer exists”
All the old friends came: Van Basten, Gullit and Rijkaard, the cold and even the fog, which was once at home and now rarely shows up. Then Franco Baresi, Pirlo, Pippo Inzaghi, the legends of the 80s and 90s Donadoni, Albertini, Virdis, Giovanni and Filippo Galli, Tassotti, Evani, captain Ambrosini, Pato, Abbiati, Montolivo, Simic, Brocchi, Oddo, Borriello, Jankulovski, also some – let’s say – niche names, almost forgotten old classmates like Martin Laursen. And then the old devils, present in spirit: the founder Kilpin with the mustache and the flask of whiskey leaning on the pole, Piero Pirelli who built San Siro, Paron Rocco who in the difficult situation, if he were Fonseca, would say one of his : “Whoever is not a man, stay on the bus”.
COMPLAINT TO IBRA AND CLUB
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Milan celebrated its 125th anniversary, which it will turn tomorrow, with a ceremony at San Siro before the match against Genoa. How did it go? Well, fine. The champions were celebrated by San Siro, but the curve displayed a critical banner Let’s honor our champions, symbol of a Milan that no longer exists! Then, in the three seconds in which he was framed on the giant screen, he booed Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who a year and a half ago was applauded by everyone here. We are like that, like those who are suspended between a past that is too beautiful and a present that is too unambitious.
MARCO AND PIPPO
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Inzaghi and Van Basten entered the Rossoneri Hall of Fame and received the dedicated award, created by Tiffany because Milan remains chic, fashionable. They entered the pitch, a little excited, with Van Basten touching his lip as if in a nervous gesture: he was walking, looking up like that day in 1995, only his pink shirt and reindeer jacket were missing. Same thrills, just a little less. They greeted the curve and the curve sang to them, like it used to. “Marcovanbasten, marcovanbasten”. “Pippo Inzaghi scores for us”. It’s easy to feel younger.
THE LEGENDS
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Fifteen minutes before the start of the match, the lights are down, the Meduza music is on and the emotions are on. Behind the advertising billboards and in midfield the red LEDs lit up, Luca Ward’s voice guided the narration, with a child crossing the pitch with ball in hand and step by step growing up: he entered large red and black cubes and came out as a teenager, then boy, then man. The most beautiful find. Then inside the flags, inside the trophies and above all the legends, announced by the speaker Gegio Lanzoni. The Dutch trio brought the Champions League (the Champions Cup, please), Daniele Massaro the European Super Cup, Abbiati the Scudetto trophy, Evani and Seedorf the Intercontinental. Chicco Evani won it with his left foot, Seedorf… well, Seedorf is noble by definition: under the Intercontinental, he doesn’t go down.
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