Cesare Maldini for Italian football is a picture of 53 years ago. May 22, 1963. A huge man who raises the old European Cup at Wembley. And ‘an explosion of joy and power up, a big smile as well, AC Milan in white vest, a large tricolor shield on the heart, a much smaller cup than today, but certainly no less fascinating, the the stands of a stadium that was already a myth: it is the first time an Italian club win the most prestigious trophy. Some of Milan’s players wearing a raincoat. Immediately below him to his left, there is a Gianni Rivera was not yet twenty, and in that jacket there is three times. It is eleven years younger than his 31 year old captain. Generations that pass between them. the Milan had just beaten with two goals from Altafini none other than the Benfica of Eusebio, the Black Pearl – who in fact had gone ahead – and that was the totem of the best team in the world at that time . Benfica had in fact taken the place of the first irresistible Real Madrid, winning the previous two European Cups. It was Milan’s turn now to Ghezzi, Trapattoni, Dino Sani, Bruno Mora, Gianni Rivera and of course the captain Cesare Maldini. Player of foil and not a club, he wrote. Tall, elegant, fierce in marking, quick and in supporting, “free”, but not only, able to come out of the den the defense and strike first, according to the law of “catenaccio and counterattack.” E ‘him to command the defense, to have sometimes in the game – on Rocco delegation – even the scoring. The entire DNA of this ancient football but already winning it would broadcast in full at the child “Pauline” who would be born five years later, and would become like him one of the greatest footballers of the fifty-year epic of Milan. Paolino his father would first off his face: identical in features, equally impressive physically. Lawyer like his father, Milan player like his father, virtually the same player. Only evolved into a player even stronger, more vibrant and most successful of his father, who won one Champions Cup – probably the most important in the history of Milan – while he went as far as five. in the other photos of that historic night appears next to Maldini obviously Nereo Rocco, with his ever-present hat, the inventor and creator of the Milan. Trieste both. Maldini had started playing football in a youth club, which is called “House of the Table” for a certain period. Rocco had already known at the time of Triestina, but if you would then also found to AC Milan who bought it in 54 to 58 million. Building with him a formidable team and even the coach’s apprendendone canons. She called him “Mr. Rocco”, and when the coach had moments of difficulty is even consulted with Maldini, using it as a reference point. Milan was born and that there is also consolidating and especially “The Murderess”, the well-known restaurant Rossoneri hideout. The European Cup Cesare would have added four league titles and laid the foundation along with other formidable champions, before Inter of Herrera and Mazzola, the success of Italian football. Maldini Maldini or rather, were the old and the new Milan. But not only. We all have an image of Maldini and Bearzot jumping off the bench and hugging each other while Italy won the World Cup in Madrid 82. That white jacket with blue stripes is another piece of football history. Maldini was the second of Bearzot. It was part of the extraordinary mechanism of the federal school blues coaches, for which a transmitting his knowledge to another. And the coach does not offended at being called “breeders”. Bearzot closed the era, neighbors would have national and Maldini ‘s Under-21 that was Vicini. More than the national team at the World Cup in France its flagship were the three European championships won in 90 years as coach of ‘Under 21. Thirty years ago, twenty years ago, the national Under-21 was a great team, popular and seguitissima. Cannavaro, Inzaghi, Albertini, Vieri, Totti just some of those that have passed under his good-natured shouts. numerous family. By his wife Marisa, who fell in love with the bachelor of gold and married him in 62 had six children before the three females, and then the three boys. A close-knit tribes, linked to the rites of the restaurant and the Sunday lunch. Cesare is a legend that remains forever in the Panini stickers of those times, but also a gentleman, shy, cute, light that at the time of the national could find at the table with a bitter taste in his hand. The greatest satisfaction of his life perhaps was to have lifted the European Cup at Wembley that night of May 63, but having trained, when he was in the national, Paolino. And have revised in him.
- Topics:
- Cup
- Starring:
- Cesare Maldini
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