published an article from "The Well Padova.
This photo is a piece of history ... That picture is the helicopter of Silvio Berlusconi, about to land in the Arena of Milan. E 'February 20, 1986, exactly five years ago: Berlusconi, owner of Fininvest, the company that controlled Rete 4, Canale 5 and Italy 1 (now called Mediaset), acquires Milan. It comes in its own way, with great effect. At that time few people know, but it will change everything.
In 1986, the Milan is a society very different from today, we could call it a fallen nobleman: he won the last championship in 1979 with Gianni Rivera still in camp, then he knew the match-fixing, el'onta of two years of series B, a desk and an "earned" in the field. That season was eliminated in the third round of the UEFA Cup by Belgian Waregem, complete with a hard challenge and the final accident that will cost at the San Siro two-match ban in Europe. At the end of the championship will not be able even to reach a position in UEFA and in that moment is also on the verge of bankruptcy. The President is Giuseppe Farina, another old-style pork Viganò at the end of the 70 had sunk to the C2 Padova, sacrificing in "honor" to his Vicenza, vice president of Gianni Rivera that Milan was the flag ... The Nerazzurri cousins \u200b\u200bin those years are just a little better, and Juventus badges is splitting with the rest of Italy: a year for me, one year to the various Roma / Verona / Naples on duty! The football is very different, although the billions already tadpole and sponsors: foreigners can not exceed two per team, the only television stations broadcast the matches in European Cups and a summary of a Sunday night game of the league and a B A league, all matches are played on Sunday at the same hours (14.30 in winter, 16 in summer) and no one even goes to his head to speak of early or late to avoid disturbing the regularity of the championship. Buying the most expensive in history was to be part of Maradona's Napoli, paid 14 billion lire. And he caused a scandal. Fans who do not go to the stadium heard the parties on "All the soccer minute by minute," and at a time when there are no ear is perfectly normal to see couples that run on Sunday with her and he huffs glue that holds the radio ear in the same manner in which we would hold the phone ... Those who go to the stadium, however, are not few, and often fill the stadium. Tickets are free but are not for everyone. The ultras are menano, much more than now, but there is more than someone who brings children to the stage: at the time the common thought is that "if one does not go to seek it's not going nowhere", and so do fathers with their children (even now believes so, but the case of Stephen Gugliotta is there just to show otherwise ...). In short, football is a sport still "for all". And in those years the Italian league championship is more than ever the most beautiful in the world. Silvio But already the bearer of revolutionary ideas: the early years began to speak of a "European Supercampione club ". E 'on at least ten years.
She talks a lot. Talk of tactics, of triangulations of the area. Nils Liedholm teases him: "He's a great coach, he coached the Edilnord", others as Tacconi (Juventus goalkeeper) laugh heartily. Underestimate it. On the other hand slowly began to emerge of its ability, for example the manipulation of the media, once used very little (nell'itaGlia piduista Democrat and was preferred by the cover-up ... And Silvio Arcore had the merit of bringing a breath of renewal within the P2!), now in common use ... it's a different way of presenting news that is perceived unlike the general public depending on how shows. I remember for example, even though I was a little more than a little boy, the title of the Gazzetta dello Sport that he spoke of the friendly held in Milan from Sterzing summer: a nine-column headline on the front page, those who were usually devoted to team that wins the championship or world champion Italy, which says "Incredible Milan." One course was to read the subtitle of the news and immediately noticed that: "The Rossoneri trimmed six goals to Sterzing - At the end of game fans and players huddle around a party in Berlusconi." Of course I was puzzled: AC Milan had not given six goals for Real Madrid, he had given them at Sterzing, which I think was the level of Voltaroncaglia! But the Journal celebrated what was a friendly in August as a Champions League final, and probably the securities in the following years he went to work for "Free". But anyhow, I could not figure it out once a decade, we have come later ...
The 1986/87 season is his first year as president, Milan and engages the Uefa Cup by a whisker, winning the tiebreaker with the Sampdoria Torino. It was just a play-off-UEFA, but it was too important for that Milan will not stay out of Europe again. In summer Silvio had redesigned the corporate structure carry him in his men was Galliani, younger and possibly more ugly, but above all there next summer ... and Dell'Utri Confalonieri, 1987, complete the revolution in street and Nils Liedholm Arrigo Sacchi, a another visionary who had obtained modest results at Parma. Came the first two Dutch, Van Basten and Gullit, and further that they will become true pillars as Donadoni and Ancellotti ... also comes some "package" as the Argentine Borghi (sent on loan to Como and never redeemed), Stefano arrives Borgonovo now recalls with pleasure his past in professional football ... The beginning is not the most simple, leaving the Rossoneri in the Uefa Cup second round against Espanol Barcelona in the return game at the stadium Sarrià the Guardia Civil office hard fans of Milan and Berlusconi spoke in person to calm the situation down to act as peacemaker among agents and fans: we always put his face, and if necessary also my ass, it only remains to look into any of the things that directly or indirectly relating to it. Should be given about him ... In the championship moves to Fiorentina at San Siro thanks to the magic of a young Roberto Baggio, the purple trigger throwing things in the fields below and Berlusconi launches a revolutionary proposal: AC Milan will not give more tickets to fans the away team, giving up at the same proportion of tickets allocated to the Rossoneri fans when they are away from San Siro! And 'the Berlusconi found to combat the violence, which is the strong opposition of the curve (which is expressed in a banner: "Years of travel thrown for a company infamous!"), It seems incredible, but in twenty years not were able to do anything but repeat an idea rejected in starting in the 80s! The idea of \u200b\u200bSilvio fall, but in Fininvest began a series of commercials against hooliganism (for example, you see a guy who comes into the race to defuse a bomb-shaped balloon ... if at least it happened today would have been warned to invasion of the pitch!). It also rewrote the hymn of Milan, it seems that initially the idea had been entrusted to the boys the den, but then their composition has been set aside ... Not everyone took it well of course ... In March, the Milan is the second six lengths by Napoli of Maradona, who seems to running at their second championship in a row: in the championship final of the Neapolitan's collapse, are joined from AC Milan, then passed in direct conflict on May 1 at the San Paolo. At the last championship in Como celebrates the eleventh Scudetto Rossoneri, the first-Berlusconi era, Milan fans from all over Italy party, after years of breathing extremely difficult. A few years after Maradona will say that the title sold it to the Naples Camorra, who had not the slightest intention of paying all those who had staked everything on the underground betting blue. The fact remains that that Milan was very strong. And in the San Siro over the 1988/89 season record of subscriptions: 75,000 against 72,000 in the San Paolo in Naples! Today if they make 35,000 people in Milan and then, but does not ask anyone how they did it to ruin our football ... Berlusconi is credited, but already in the AC Milan in B there were 60,000 people at the San Siro, and then things take a different perspective ...
year Next you open the borders to the third foreigner, and also comes Rijkaard. The adventure begins in the European Cup, and in the second round comes the dreaded Red Star Belgrade, which draw in San Siro, only to be lead to a zero to twenty minutes remaining in the second leg in Serbian land. Arrives, however, a sudden and unexpected ally: the thick fog, forcing the referee to suspend the game! Is repeated throughout the day, ends one by one and go to the rigors of the Rossoneri. Sigh of relief. In the final of the Milan season turns into a real car: five goals in the semifinals at Real Madrid, four in the final in Barcelona against Steaua Bucharest. This game will be remembered for the impressive number of Milan fans in tow, about one hundred thousand people (!!!), undertaking was possible thanks to the "good offices" of the Uefa Berlusconi: in the Eastern countries it was still in force the "communist bloc" (the Berlin Wall would fall only in October of that year), Steaua fans who had obtained a visa were few (which almost everyone asked for political asylum in Spain) and not to play playing in a stadium half-empty Berlusconi won by UEFA to distribute unsold tickets among the Milan fans. It was a triumph. In three years, AC Milan had reached the very top of the world, sealing vintage triumph won the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo against Nacional Medellin in December. In the 1989/90 season is now returning the favor to Naples: the Rossoneri had a bad start, then go back, beyond the Napoli of Maradona and Careca and final championship experience a downturn. On April 15, third last in the league, AC Milan draw in Bologna, Napoli draw in Bergamo, but a coin hits the Brazilian midfielder Alemao who would be ready to resume play. Comes in a gallop, the masseur Carmando (for he is also coming in a future National "sporting merit" I assume ...) and ordered to stand-down Alemao, officially the Brazilian can not resume the game: the court applied the regulation of the time by assigning the table to 2-0 in Naples, the two contenders are level on points with two days of the end is looming and a playoff ... But it is the year of the world, you play in Italy and we have to win at all costs: no playoff, no distractions ... So the next Sunday in Verona AC Milan lost for the second time in its history already won a championship! Who was on that day can not fail to have noticed Bentegodi arbitrage blatantly part of Lo Bello: Sacchi expelled from the bench, expelled Rijkaard, Van Basten expelled, expelled after the ninetieth Evani the winning goal gialloblù. The Milan fans are present angry, as if they needed to be further "teased" in a trip to Verona in those years: the Bentegodi, renovated for the World Cup, suffered extensive damage, outside the stadium everything is destroyed gialloblù: cars, shop windows, even signs bright ... A week after celebrating their second championship in Naples, Maradona said that justice is done, Berlusconi has yet to take the path of victimhood and simply says that Milan will stay in Europe and there will be Champion. Three days later, still shocked by the end of the season, the Rossoneri also lose the Italian Cup against Juventus, but it comes in a European Cup against Benfica in Vienna Rijkaard's goal. It is the culmination of a triumphant season for Italian football: Milan come in addition to the triumphs of Sampdoria and Juventus respectively, also in the Cup Winners Cup and Uefa Cup. At that time, before the world Berlusconi is a winner, and is on the cock. Meanwhile
spend the World Cup, which should have been a triumph but instead end with a disappointing third place, and we are in effect in the '90s. The 1990/91 season programs Silvio would have to give AC Milan's third European Cup in a row, but instead comes to a grinding halt in the quarter by dell'Olimpyque Marseille, complete with a "final yellow": in fact, full recovery go out the spotlight the Velodrome, the referee suspended the game, Galliani is furious and leaves from the Milan area. The "Cup of lamp posts, as will be mockingly renamed Inter cousins. Berlusconi still remembers being a gentleman, and waiving all the action, admitting that the trust Galliani has a great bullshit, but the Uefa feels there and over the table to reach a 0-3 score Sting: a year of excluded from European competitions. Never mind: "AC Milan will return to Europe, and will come back through the front door." Galliani meanwhile is punished with a promotion to vice-president: It's time to create a replacement! It 's time to renew, Via Sacchi, Capello arrives, considered by many the "Yes-man" of Silvio. It will demonstrate to everyone to be a winner. His Milan, less spectacular than that of Sacks, is considerably more concrete and triumphs at the championship without even losing a game. Juve look to hold his pace, but at some point gives way to the crash. For much of the season is a constant reproach among the leadership of AC Milan and the Advocate Agnelli, a whole accuse each other of stealing. E 'says that the ox horned donkey, or if you like Toto Riina that the mafia in Happy Manor. The reality is that football has changed and are unlikely to happen again that an outsider could win the flag: for all the 90s will be a "carve up the titles" between Juventus and AC Milan teams such as Parma won everything in Europe in Italy will never arrive at the flag ... In this context, the Rossoneri will win two more titles of Champion of Italy, will lose (from superfavoriti) the Champions League against Marseille dell'Olimpyque black beast to have it taken back to the table by UEFA after Bernard Tapie, considered "The Berlusconi of France" and a close friend of Silvio Arcore, tried to bribe an referee during the semifinals. The real triumph came in 1994, in Athens Crujiff against Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbut in the meantime is also changing the political landscape: the scandal Tangentopoli swept away the old political class and leadership, including his friend Craxi, who Berlusconi has done the greatest favor ... Then Silvio must enter politics, if you do not want to go to jail for 500 billion debt of his company.
I am convinced that is exactly what happened: he was not interested in politics Silvio good, at least not directly. He wanted to do "the situation of the Lambs," which had never been in politics but commanding and moving his checkers from the outside, while in the gallery he experienced his Juve, but unfortunately the pressure of events' s forced to move. And March 26, 1994, Forza Italy (the party he founded, with the exposures and Confalonieri Dell'Utri which he joined in Milan, to which was added even after) wins the election. The Milan fans do not appreciate, they fear a sacrifice of Milan on the throne of the nation, but the Rossoneri are still protagonists ... The fact remains that it is an important date March 26, 1994: the derby with calming Vicenza is marred by serious accidents, and beyond 90 boys will be warned after that game. The HAG is dissolved, an entire generation of ultras was swept away and at the end of the season he moved to Padua dall'Appiani all'Euganeo. All this the day that Berlusconi was elected first President of the Council: Obviously, it's a coincidence, but it is a sign of changing times, inexorably ...
The political career of Silvio from Arcore is well known, as is known his troubles with the law and his cry to "communist plot". Perhaps it is clear that its role is not political, but the entrepreneur. The fact remains that it has a certain charisma and is a very strong figure, a leader: will eventually affect the world of Italian politics in an inexorable. Because almost no one says it, but when he's no "right" and "left" in parliament, but only "Berlusconi" and "antiberlusconiani. Sure, you keep talking about fascism and communism for the morons who believe the words of these clowns, but the truth is that there are right people (Travaglio) that against Berlusconi, and people, "former communist" (Bondi? Not only that, even Liguori, Ferrara ...) that is among his most trusted henchmen ... And unfortunately, the antiberlusconiani are not what they see in Silvio damage to the country, but they are envious of his success, those who want to be like him and did not make the cut. Since 1994 have failed to make a serious law on conflict of interest, but Berlusconi managed to trap only for partying with Ruby: of all the other stories for which is under investigation (for example, crimes of criminal association or the bombings of 1993 in Rome and Florence) magically does not mention anyone ... It's not that we really are all in the middle?
The fact remains that the commitment to football Berlusconi has drastically decreased, and the Milan fans have the same issue (but then renege on the challenges) since the Milan Milan is no longer the star of the '90s. Soon collapse, on the other hand is inevitable, and I fear he will fall even Milan. But perhaps this is the least: you've wondered what happened to Italy will fall when the only one in the likes and dislikes of the people can to truly unite the various areas of the country?
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