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00:00The president of Brescone, as usual, came to Milanello on Saturday afternoon to say hello
00:07and before the usual chat he told me not to go into the room because he would need to talk to me.
00:14I was already a little worried, thinking that he would criticize me for not playing,
00:19that I had not yet expressed my potential.
00:23In short, I was a little worried.
00:25But in the end he took my side and told me,
00:27I heard that your mother is not well, that this week she went to San Raffaele to take the exams.
00:33Look, I'm here, always available for any emergency, I'm here.
00:38Call me if your mother has something or even if she has any problems,
00:43because there is only one mother and you always have to love her so much.
00:48Welcome, welcome to the world of Silvio.
00:51They called him Cavaliere, but also Il Dottore.
00:54They called him President, but also Sua Emittenza.
00:57Hard news, that of June 12, 2023.
01:00Yet, a year later, he is perhaps even more present,
01:03even more friendly, even more than the door next door.
01:06But do you remember Silvio?
01:08Oh yes, what years those years.
01:10Who knows how many evenings, between ex-Frareduci, between Milanese of yesterday, today and tomorrow,
01:15how many evenings end like this?
01:17With episodes very similar to the one told in the opening by Aldo Serena.
01:21With a sigh and a smile, thinking of how unique, particular, different, fresh, generous and overwhelming he was.
01:28I have an anecdote, a memory, about President Berlusconi.
01:32Surely there are many, but the most beautiful were his phone calls,
01:36which happened after the games or before the games,
01:40or when he scored a goal or made a great performance.
01:45He called me, complimented me, we talked a little about the team.
01:50He always had beautiful words for me.
01:54But the most beautiful was surely the first time he called me,
01:58when I signed for Milan.
02:02He told me, I was informed by my friends in Bergamo,
02:07and they all told me that I have taken a great player.
02:11In addition, I saw that you have neither earrings nor tattoos,
02:16so you are perfect for Milan.
02:19This was our first phone call, a beautiful memory.
02:24He is a special person.
02:27He gave a lot to me, to Milan and to all Milanese.
02:31Surely I will never forget him for everything he did for us.
02:36He received so much, like Jack Bonaventura, but also like many others.
02:40He is happy to tell it, to share it.
02:44You can also feel it in the strings, in the nuances, in the words of Christian Brocchi.
02:50President Berlusconi was a unique, inimitable person.
02:54He was one of those people who, when you were in close contact with him,
03:00you received from a dinner, from a chat, from something different
03:06compared to what could be something public,
03:10he gave you such a great energy, so strong,
03:14that you could really do anything.
03:18He was a gem, he was perhaps the only one
03:24who, whatever he said, then did and managed to do,
03:30he created something incredibly great
03:34and every time he set a goal, he really managed to achieve it.
03:39And all the people who were by his side,
03:42they mentalized and he managed to mentalize them
03:46so that this could happen.
03:49This recognition of Silvio Berlusconi
03:52does not need to be stimulated or heated.
03:55It happens spontaneously, with thoughts that run free,
03:58dissolved, happy to have lived, satisfied to have been there,
04:02with the scent of history that accompanies every consideration.
04:06I often think of August 3, 1986.
04:10On that occasion we played a friendly against Parma
04:13and the coach of Parma was Rigosacchi.
04:16That evening the president fell in love with Rigosacchi and his game
04:21and there is an anecdote that I think never came out.
04:24We seriously risked not going to that game
04:27because we were in Portofino, in the president's villa, L'Olivetta,
04:31and to go to the heliport to see the game
04:34we had to make a journey by motorboat
04:37and we were hit by a terrible tsunami.
04:40We had to go back to the villa, take a shower
04:43and the president lent us clothes to be able to go
04:46because my father and I were completely washed like him.
04:50Many times I ask myself, if I had not had this desire to go to see the game
04:54and if I had taken a little laziness,
04:57probably the history of Milan would have been different.
05:00Gianluca Gagliani's voice refers to that game of almost 40 years ago
05:04at Stadio Tardini in Parma, when Bussi, Bianchi and Bortolazzi,
05:08a row, were still playing for the Emiliani
05:11when Barone Lidholm was a granite institution
05:14and when Arrigo Sacchi was just a possible rampant of the benches of the future.
05:19One evening, that of Parma, that of the lightning strike,
05:22instead, that arrived two weeks later, the Arena di Milano.
05:26For me, President Berlusconi is that president who got off
05:29with a helicopter that July at the Arena di Milano,
05:32took a Milan that had just risen from Serie B
05:35and took it to the top of the world.
05:38There is nothing else to add.
05:40That is the parable that has changed forever the history of the Milanese fans.
05:46It has created for us a memory that will remain forever in our hearts.
05:51Thank you, President.
05:53Franz's voice, the protagonist of the comic duo with Ale,
05:56is a memory still alive, always alive.
05:59At the Casa Milan Museum, strongly wanted by his daughter Barbara,
06:02in the clothes of the administrator delegato Rossonero,
06:05is always present the representation of the helicopter
06:08with which Silvio Berlusconi landed at the Arena di Milano on July 18, 1986
06:13to officially start his presidency of Milan.
06:16In his time, his era, an installation consisting of 50 kg of iron wire
06:22is placed on a reproduction of the arena seen from above,
06:25while on the background, the images of Berlusconi's landing
06:29accompanied in the background, just like then,
06:32by the Valkyrie's ride of Wagner.
06:35A few days ago I was asked to choose between Guardiola and Ancelotti,
06:39and the thing was quite useless.
06:41I am opposed to this question,
06:43in the sense that, in my opinion, they are two extraordinary excellences
06:46of two small different categories.
06:48On the one hand, a coach who continues to win with his empathy,
06:51with his knowledge of football, obviously,
06:53with his good sense throughout Milan, and he is a legendary figure.
06:56On the other hand, there is a coach who has won a lot, Guardiola,
06:59who has innovated.
07:00I tell you this because not always in the history of football
07:03innovation goes hand in hand with success.
07:05In the case of Silvio Berlusconi, these two elements come together,
07:09because Berlusconi is one who has won a lot, a lot in his career,
07:12but he has won by innovating, he has won by completely changing football.
07:16He has changed everything, he has changed the conception of a football club,
07:19he has made it modern, he has dragged football into a new era,
07:23he has dragged the market of television rights and the relationship
07:26between football and television in a completely new way,
07:29in a completely new era.
07:32I can only tell you that I have seen that charisma
07:37in the few times I have met him, in the times I have interviewed him,
07:40in the times I have seen him at Mediaset.
07:43We are talking about an absolutely brilliant figure
07:46who has made that Milan something completely new,
07:49completely different from everything that was there before.
07:53A perfect mix of family on one side and business on the other.
07:58The maximum professionalism and therefore the maximum search for excellence,
08:02but united by a sense of identity, of belonging that is truly unique.
08:06He is an extraordinary figure who has made the history of football
08:09and who must be remembered as a great innovator, as a great winner.
08:13That overpowering find of the Arena di Milano
08:16had divided and made the journalists jump too,
08:19but today, as the narration of Pierluigi Pardo has just confirmed,
08:23everything has solidified, everything is univocal.
08:26Silvio Berlusconi's sporting reinterpretation is pacified,
08:29serene, tends to beauty, as it is right for those who have had a new vision
08:35and who then had the strength to pursue it, beyond any reasonable doubt.
08:39I have a beautiful memory of President Berlusconi
08:42since the first day I met him in Milanello,
08:45the day of my presentation together with other teammates,
08:49when he said that he wanted me for my way of being
08:54a winner, a goalkeeper who also went to score in attack,
08:58it was beautiful.
09:00Then, in all the years I've been in Milan,
09:04he always had great words for me,
09:07but then you also saw the thickness of a man
09:10who has done so much, has given so much to so many people,
09:14above all he has given a great mentality,
09:18together with Dr. Gagliani,
09:20to a club that has become the most beautiful club in the world.
09:26The others don't want it bad,
09:29but I think that Berlusconi's Milan has also been
09:32the verdict of many champions who have played in the great clubs,
09:35the most beautiful club in the world.
09:39The man of sparkles, Silvio, of idyll.
09:42Each of us, each of you, thinking about ours,
09:45about your own life, remember where you were
09:47when something important had happened.
09:49In his own existence, or in the history of human events,
09:52for those who have known him, it is very clear
09:55the memory of what he did and where he was,
09:58when he met Silvio Berlusconi for the first time.
10:01As one of his goalkeepers, one of his lighthouse keepers,
10:05Marco Ameglia, just confirmed, but not only.
10:08My first meeting, quite by chance,
10:11with Silvio Berlusconi, at the time,
10:15already its publication in the newspapers
10:18and a cry for Italian entrepreneurship,
10:23took place in December 1985
10:27in the austere salons of the Savini restaurant
10:30in the heart of Milan, Vittorio Emanuele's gallery.
10:34In that circumstance,
10:36at the time I was working for Il Corriere dello Sport,
10:40I was called for the press conference
10:43at the end of the year, promoted by Milan,
10:46with the presence of Giussi Farina, the president,
10:50and Cardillo, who was the general director of Milan.
10:54At the same time, in another room of the Savini restaurant,
10:59a meeting of the Rotary Club was taking place.
11:04And in this meeting of the Rotary Club
11:07there was, among others, Peppino Prisco,
11:09who, as soon as he was informed by the waiters
11:13of the presence of journalists and Giussi Farina,
11:16came to greet us and above all he came to inform us
11:20that at his own table there was Silvio Berlusconi,
11:24also a Rotarian.
11:26While he was about to finish his breakfast with Farina,
11:29at a certain point Silvio Berlusconi appeared.
11:32And I gave a very long and very detailed interview
11:38in which, for the first time, Silvio Berlusconi
11:41openly declared his interest in Milan
11:46and, above all, in Farina,
11:49to quickly close the deal.
11:52When I reread that interview today,
11:55I remember exactly the masterful film
12:00that Silvio Berlusconi made
12:03at the helm of Milan for 30 very long years.
12:07Among the many memories of Silvio Berlusconi,
12:10certainly my first meeting at Arcone,
12:13the presentation of his first Milan,
12:16with coach Lidholm,
12:18lunch with all the players,
12:20then the team leaves for the retreat of Pipiteno
12:24and Berlusconi signs with all the journalists,
12:27there were no more than a dozen of us.
12:30He takes off his jacket, takes us to the garden
12:33and starts talking about his ideas of a revolutionary football,
12:37of economy, of finance, incredible works
12:40in which I met his charisma
12:43and his great ability as a visionary
12:46to convince his interlocutors.
12:50The voices of the journalists Franco Ordine and Luca Serafini
12:52are those of those years,
12:54when the phrase came up,
12:55we are Milan,
12:56which for decades it was impossible not only to pronounce,
12:58but also to conceive.
13:00The years of transfers, flights,
13:02the absence of borders and the discovery of the new.
13:04A smiling aggression,
13:06intense and convincing,
13:08that of Silvio,
13:09a man who has always smelled of goals and work,
13:11of family and goals.