Milan, because Maldini and Massara are the ideal couple

Paolo and Ricky have never played together, they started to team up for just three years, yet they shared the glory even in an afternoon thirty years ago: Pescara-Milan, one goal each. And then who knows, maybe it was destiny: since Maldini returned to the Rossoneri he has worked alongside Leonardo, Boban and Gattuso himself, people with whom he won everything, yet he found perfect alchemy with the former striker of province. Together they built a Scudetto AC Milan, they embraced, framed in the stands and then on the Reggio Emilia pitch. Together they waited, in the longest June in the history of the Devil, for the happy ending that arrived on the gong.

JOINT

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The couple was born in silence, behind the spotlight: Massara arrived with his style, on tiptoe. A few words and a lot, a lot of work behind the scenes, ideal for achieving balance in the starting trident with two giants like the former captain and Boban. The mix turned out to be spot on right from the start: the ds born in Turin but with the French r (the Parisian mother was an official at the Louvre) boasts a great talent scout flair and a first level diplomatic ability (he has traveled the world and speaks five languages). Even if, in terms of diplomacy and history, few can boast Maldini’s curriculum: it is the legend in front of which today’s champions (see Sergio Ramos) bow, a phone call is enough to change the trajectories of the market.

FROM THEO TO GIROUD

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The symbolic blows? Bah, it depends on taste. Some choices, however, are indisputable, choices of vision, chosen by people who understand football. Theo Hernandez, whom Maldini went to pick up in Ibiza. Ibrahimovic, taken in the Boban era, to give strength to the locker room. Maignan, for whom Massara spent heavy words yesterday: “It is extraordinary, he will make the history of Milan”. Tonali snatched from Inter. Giroud underestimated and then scudetto man. The harmony was born day after day, between common difficulties and successes, and became friendship, if it is true that the summer of 2022 also told of a journey together, Paolo, Ricky and their wives. Ibiza has become a reference place and the couple, the M&M of Milan, is now a trademark, between dozens of appointments with agents and some reckless negotiations, the dt known all over the world and the ds who prefers to work in the shadows. They are different in character but they work and perhaps they work because they are different. At Milan, that’s okay.