ME Gireno I BALL: A TEAM OF PAGLIACCI

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If Juve is unquestionably the team Thieves par excellence, the second team in Milan, with whom Juve is now twinned in fact, (just look at the messages of Tuttosport humpbacks fans hoping for a victory cousins \u200b\u200bin the championship) is the comic-grotesque aspect of Italian football, the Circus Medrano, the Neapolitan comedy, in short, Milan is a team of clowns and clowning .

In the early eighties AC Milan stands for a double relegation to Serie B, first and then paying for free, and the dual presidency Colombo - Meal full of curious and financial aspects of leaks in Kenya (maybe Diego can clarification on).

But in 1986, Silvio Berlusconi, the king of TV and AC Milan comes in two decades of triumph, however, fouled by ongoing antics and Figures homeless, whose director-protagonist is almost always Geom. Adriano Galliani.

It's time to dive into a rich overview of the antics of our cousins, a Top-Ten-Trash , recalling the best of the past 20 years, the gems of greater thickness, all with a background in music fairytale an environment similar to the chocolate factory of Willy Wonka and known to most as the ethereal "White Milanello.

10 - "Do not sell Kaka"

unforgettable this farce that has the athlete of Christ as a hero, without spending too much time trying to stress the most grotesque ( and therefore worthy of Milan) of the story:

The alleged revelations Mauro Suma Cruel and sadly announce that: " unfortunately this time there is nothing to do " in various sports programs
Newspapers Italian and every day increases the supply of the Sheikh of about 10 million euro, reaching a monumental 130 million for Kaka "of Corsport. This strategy is for the benefit of all: every day that journalists have a new dance to tell the public Boeotian, of Manchester City that leaps to the headlines as an ambitious team standings despite indecent, and of course AC Milan, which sells His gem despite the offer was stellar. Of course, the real figure would be divided by two, and Kaka is not the idea of \u200b\u200bgoing to the City does not pass even from the antechamber of the brain, but the City fans also end up horned and clubs, in particular that that you foolishly tattooed on his back in a moment of euphoria alcohol, number 22 with the name Kaka .
intervention in closing process Biscardi's none other than Silvio Berlusconi that came down from the white horse (as widely expected by Stefano Olivari) announces that the bon vivant's Son of Kaka to remain at Milan .
Even before it opens the summer market, Kaka is announced as a super buy from Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.

9 - "The last game"

One of the tricks in which Milan is special and lose unworthily the last game, whether league or the Champions League group, if this game has little meaning. We recall, in no particular order, Milan losing the last of the Invincibles of the 1994 championship at home with Reggiana and order to the B Piacenza Gigi Cagni , distort relegation fight in more than one occasion losing the last ( or penultimate) v Reggina, the last of these situations (2007) AC Milan's website, which contains the last match played, made a curious exception, not bringing the game against Reggina, but won the final with Liverpool in the words "last game important place". Probably the regular season Italian, and the struggle to avoid relegation, is not as important . However, for a level playing field, the great AC Milan has honored the last futile effort in Europe (2004) losing at home with Celta Vigo 1-2 (goals from Jesuli and Jose Ignacio) and eliminating the Bruges, because they have a European mentality.

8 - Move the games? Already seen in Belgrade

How well we remember Fiorentina - AC Milan was not played last December because, although the field was in better condition than at San Siro (where he played Inter - Lazio), AC Milan did not enjoy playing because of too many absences. Twenty years ago a similar situation occurred in Belgrade, Milan got the ball from the Red Star and the suspended game in half an hour from the end with the Yugoslavs in a benefit to zero with goals from Savicevic (first leg had ended 1-1); no surprise that Baresi and companions begin to press the referee complaining Pauli visibility and pressing for the suspension of the match, which is repeated from scratch the next day (not 1 -0 and not with only thirty minutes left to play). In repeating his cousins \u200b\u200bqualify on penalties (it must be said that Van Basten was annulled a goal set) and with great fortune are on track to win his first Champions Berlusconi.

7 - bassist settevie

What behind the scenes there is a strong pressure on journalists Galliani - sport or not - is an overt fact: just remember how several years ago, before Ligabue a concert in San Siro, the opening service Open Studio, was dedicated not to the rocker Emilia that on that occasion did you rob the apartment, but the opening act: the "settevie. And why, you say, this group of strangers has been awarded a service at Studio Open ended with a memorable " settevie are strong, they will road? But certain: the bassist settevie, the mix of Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones, is he, the son of that Galliani Milan fans have repeatedly asked to sell to Real Madrid in place of Ricardo Kaka. But the pressures on journalists are not always discrete and elegant: the threat to remember Aldo Serena "You do not set foot in San Siro, Milan will play when" the brawl with Abatantuono, and planing Alciato who had dared to criticize the number of paying during the memorable Milan - Zurich.

6 - Buying Nesta

In December 2001 the nice Chievo won 1-2 at San Siro against a beautiful game Cuper's Inter row that unfortunately the duo Gresko - Sorondo to cover raids Eriberto. Just Eriberto not yet Luciano, with the other colored Manfredini, is the most interesting technical novelties of 4-4-2 Del Blacks. The two external attack are real lightning, two players from the physicality and overflowing from the devastating progression. Lazio Cragnotti (then apparently rich) had decided to make sure the services for the modest sum of € 24 million, but unfortunately just after Christmas performance of the two axes collapses for reasons more or less mysterious (something, it seems, that the physician has received a Chievo warning ) and that is Eriberto Manfredini again becoming scarce as ever. Campedelli however, conscious of having trimmed a blatant rip-off at Lazio, requires the 48 billion promised by Cragnotti, while the latter tries to throw in the air already signed the contract with Chievo also because the bluff of the Cirio is coming to the surface. How to fix the situation? Speakers Galliani, president of the League, and in fact manages to annul the contract signed : Lazio will buy only Manfredini for a figure much lower than the evaluation dopata "(it's appropriate to say) in December. Of course you can buy AC Milan Nesta from Lazio to a figure lower than that offered by the interaction of Moratti, which unfortunately fall back on professional Cannavaro. Also in the category "acquistoni" Galliani told we have a curious event: the night of August 26, 2006 between Sevilla and Malaga, we were in the car listening to Cadena Ser: after midnight operates a English journalist announcing a crazy scoop: Galliani would have been seen in the city Ruiz de Lopera to deal with the transfer to AC Milan's Ricardo Oliveira ... the host of the radio broadcast interrupted the reporter by saying the decision "not : Galliani can not be in Seville to treat because Oliveira is disqualified for Calciopoli" . Indeed.

5 - Calendar Amended

last gag in the time frame has been modified to allow the Gregorian calendar in the Milan derby to get fresh, perhaps to win the championship to re-open to the delight of all journalists. Even for the Cup next week in Italy, Milan has kindly offered to draw the team that will play first, knowing that Inter - Juve would not have been able to play on Wednesday due to Memorial Day (though honestly I did not understand what fool the Jewish community). Curiously though, when in recent years there has been found to decide which team had the right to play the eighth for the return of Champions home dates in the "classic", Milan has kindly offered a draw, but also claimed it to be relied on Uefa ranking, in which stood before him. Result? Inter - Porto and Inter Milan - Liverpool have been played one week after another round of European return. But in this context also is worth noting another idea I guess from the Father of LSD yellow tie: after the draw "unlucky" with Manchester United, Galliani officially calls for the year following the Uefa ranking is taken into account to compile mates for the Champions instead of the traditional lottery. In Milan, the first in the standings, would have to happen to the 16th ranking and so on, on the lines of a tennis backboard "as he calls it. Needless to say that the dramatic proposal was shelved a year later when it happened to AC Milan a favorable draw with Celtic.

4 - Didate

Nearly two decades after fleeing to Marseille Nelson Dida, just back from injury more incredible that in history, a shot of the witch sitting on the bench in Parma, decides that it is time to give another demonstration of the clownish heritage Rossoneri. AC Milan is located in a goal at Celtic Park and 93 minutes into a Celtic fan and a top fifteen drunk (it's appropriate to say) of joy comes into play and touches the Brazilian goalkeeper with a gentle pat. Dida, who is six feet tall slumps to the ground writhing in pain as if he had been attacked by a swarm of bees of Maranhao, and is carried out emergency .. This time the game resumed with the arrival of the second while goalkeeper Dida, now motionless on a stretcher, possibly sedated to tolerate the pain unbearable, precaution is applied to the special collar for whiplash

3 - Wild Card, you make my heart sing

Summer 1998: AC Milan Jimmy Maini and Tyson Bogarde did not qualify for the Champions League, the UEFA Cup and even for because it is the Intertoto finished tenth. It is the second consecutive year that lies outside Europe, but after a sparkling market but expensive (Lehmann arrived, N'Gotty, Ayala and Helveg) you can not give up the fat revenue guaranteed by UEFA. Hence the idea that birth year Galliani: Milan to be given a wild card allowing to participate in the Uefa Cup despite not being classified well in the league the previous year. This right should be granted because Milan has won a European Cup in 10 years earlier, and not to make the law seem designed to deliberately Squadramia , Galliani suggested that a wild card is also assigned to Borussia Dortmund, the Germans of course are hidden. But Milan is not new to sends itself international in 1993 because it puts pressure on Milan to Marseille in debt, but the holder of the Champions Cup, is revoked the opportunity to participate in the Toyota Cup in Tokyo. This time the Uefa gives green light to Milan, but unfortunately the Sao Paulo of Sympathy Cafu and Toninho Cerezo them lie down 3-2 at Tokyo ... San Giuanni ago minga deceiving ...

2 - The honesty of Stromberg

January 24, 1990 The city of Bergamo to play in the decisive game of the Cup quarter-minigirone Italy, the formula of the competition is Boeotian, but in fact Atalanta must win - and he is succeeding with goals from Bresciani - to delete the Milan and the semi-finals. 88 Borgonovo, center of Milan, is ground to a painful contrast with Progno, and Glenn-Peter Stromberg, vichinghissimo Inter captain, throws the ball out casually on the edge of his area to allow the entry of relief: it is not therefore a waste of time because Borgonovo played for Milan who had to recover the result. Rijkaard, however, instead of returning the ball to Orobica, Massaro puts on in that bowl area; the Atalantini are surprised and naively Costanzo Barcella ditching Borgonovo: impeccable rigor. The Atalantini are stunned, could not understand the poor sportsmanship European Champion in office, but Franco Baresi can redeem the fool out of kicking the penalty . But the rigor Baresi turns it completely eliminates the Atalanta Cup. Ramaccioni will say after the game: " voluntarily mistakes that could result in a penalty sporting fraud" legitimizing the first doubts on the fact that Milan was a team of clowns. Gianni Mura will say on the Republic a couple of days later "What to many, ever, like to win more than lose like gentlemen bums is taken for granted . We are so used to hearing people say that only the result. But I declare myself disappointed by Baresi, in fact, the captain of AC Milan, from the rock, the person most loved by the young Italian according to a recent survey (before and Arbore Pertini) and disappointed by Arrigo Sacchi, coach who has a moral depth , a believer, we do not march. " It's true: they are poodles.

1 - The lights of Marseilles

On 20 March 1991 were at the Meazza to see one goal Crazy Lothar Matthaus that break down the door dell'Atalanta from 40 meters.

At the same time, however, to the delight of Inter fans in the stadium, was taking place at the Velodrome in Marseille one of the most colossal figures in history that Palta, Milan already had avoided the previous year in the final Olympique Marseille a (very strong but blatantly robbed by the referee in Lisbon Van Langenhove Belgium in the semifinals, scoring a resounding hand of Vata), had finally faced the strongest team in Europe that had failed to take especially with the ball 'English wing Chris Waddle, seen in 180 minutes from Maldini. The ninetieth minute, with Milan as a goal and virtually eliminated, a spotlight is turned off suddenly to a power outage, and the game is temporarily suspended. The problem is solved in a few moments but Galliani Baresi orders to refuse to return to play two minutes remaining, retreating from Europe made the team. The UEFA decided to punish this pathetic melodrama with a year ban from Europe, because dignity is priceless.

Carlo Maerna

Auckland, Pennetta in the final derby Schiavone overwhelmed

The Brindisi beat the other blue 6-3 6-0. Tomorrow, Flavia meet for the title of the Belgian Yanina Wickmayer. A Brisbane-final Clijsters Henin

: Flavia Pennetta beat Francesca Schiavone. Ap

AUCKLAND, January 8, 2010 - - The Italian derby in the semi-finals of the tournament in Auckland ($ 220,000 in prize money on the cement) ends to reward excellent been shaped by Flavia Pennetta, who beat Francesca Schiavone 6-3 6-0. The nervous tension between the two protagonists of the Italian queens recent success in the Fed Cup has prevented the game was balanced and spectacular. The first break of the meeting early as the third game, when Frank finished off a straight, 3-1 Flavia saliva with difficulty, saving a ball of smooth controbreak and then flew up to the final 6-3 the first set.

: Francesca Schiavone, too foul in the semifinals. Ap

triumphant - Zero emotions during the second set but dominated by Pennetta through the avalanche of unforced errors committed by Schiavone. Flavia arrives way to its 18th final of his career, becoming the first Italian ever along with Sandra Cecchini. And it does so with triumphant march, as in four matches has given just 16 games (6-2, 6-4 to American Jill Carybas, 6-2 6-2 to Spain Carla Suarez Navarro, 6-1 6-2 to Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova 6-3 6-0 and now to Schiavone).

Belgian threat - the next night Flavia Pennetta, currently ranked number 12 in the WTA top ten but from 17 August to 11 October, will play the final against Yanina Wickmayer, seeded third and the last U.S. Open semifinalist. The twenty-year old Belgian beat in the other semifinal the isrealiana Shahar Peer 6-4 7-5. There is a only the previous year between the two and won the tournament in Linz Wickmayer of last year, when he passed the blue 7-6 6-3.

the litmus test - Flavia is therefore searching for the ninth career title after victories in Sopot in 2004, Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005, Bangkok in 2007, Vina del Mar and Acapulco in 2008, and Palermo in Los Angeles 2009. The only Italian player ever to win a WTA tournament in Oceania was the Neapolitan Rita Grande, who won the title in Hobart, Tasmania, in January of 2001, defeating Jennifer Hopkins 0-6 6-3 6-3 .

: In Brisbane the wren Henin Ivanovic eliminated. Ap

the endless challenge - Meanwhile in Brisbane, in the approach of the Australian Open tournament, it was packed as expected the final between Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin. Kim beat Andrea Petkovic 6-4 6-2 to Justine and took out the former top ten Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-2. It will be the 23rd match between two queens worldwide, with the balance slightly in favor of Henin that controls for 12 to 10. The last challenge goes back to the semifinals of Wimbledon 2006, when Henin overcame her rival 6-4 7-6. The last challenge on the concrete dates back to 2005 when Toronto won Kim beating Justine in the final 7-5 6-1.

Luca Marianantoni