The Roma defender, after a long battle won by Aic, was the first to free himself, moving from Roma to Berlusconi’s Milan. The lawyer Prisco prophesied: “From now on the mediators will have the upper hand.” And then it happened that…
Forty years ago Italian football changed its skin profoundly. On 1 March 1986, a new regulation came into force: that day the release broke the chains of the players, opening up unprecedented transfer market scenarios. And therefore the transfers of a player from one club to another – until that day limited to two time bubbles and prohibited for the rest of the year – became lawful and legitimate all year round. Having pushed the hypocrisy to the limit, since the buying and selling of centre-forwards and full-backs was done even before but not in broad daylight, a new era opened up, the consequences of which – and we have confirmation of this every day – were not at all conceivable. It was the victory of the battle of the AIC, the Italian Footballers’ Association chaired by Sergio Campana. Law 91 of 1981 regulated the rules regarding relations between players and clubs: the power of the card no longer belonged to the club, but became the asset of the player himself. “It is an achievement – said Campana – which formalizes an already existing state of affairs”.
