June 12, 2023, 8:42 AM
June 12, 2023, 8:42 AM
AC Milan, led for more than 30 years by Silvio Berlusconi (1986-2017), He was “deeply saddened” for the death of its “unforgettable” former president, who died this Monday at the age of 86.
AC Monza also showed their regreta club that Berlusconi had owned since 2018, and Italian football as a whole.
“AC Milan, deeply saddened, lmourns the disappearance of the unforgettable Silvio Berlusconi”, said the rossonero club, which lived one of its most glorious times when the former Italian prime minister was its president, in a message on its website.
“Thank you president, always with us”, added the club which, under the command of the ‘Cavaliere’, won 29 titles, including five Champions Leagues, and eight Italian league titles, and which attracted some of the biggest stars of the time (Maldini, Van Basten, Gullit , Papin, Weah, Shevchenko, Ronaldinho, Ibrahimovic).
AC Monza, a football club owned by Silvio Berlusconi since 2018, and Adriano Galliani, right arm of the businessman and former Italian Prime Ministerthey also honored the memory of Berlusconi.
“This is a void that can never be filled., forever with us. Thank you for everything, president,” said the Lombard club, whose management, as in Milan, was entrusted by Berlusconi to Adriano Galliani.
The club, whose stadium is ten minutes from the city of Berlusconi, in Arcorewas climbing steps to move from the third division to Serie A last European summer.
– “Infinite gratitude” –
The Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, expressed this Monday your “infinite gratitude” towards Silvio Berlusconi, who was “fundamental” in his career as a player and as a coach.
“Today’s sadness does not erase the happy moments of the past. together”, the former player (1987-1992) and coach (2001-2009) of the rossonero club wrote on his Twitter account.
“There remains infinite gratitude to the presidentbut above all to an ironic, loyal, intelligent, sincere man, fundamental in my adventure as a footballer first, and then as a coach”, he added, concluding with a ‘Thank you, president’.
Another iconic former coach of AC Milan, Arrigo Sacchi, honored the memory of a “fabulous friend, to whom I owe everything”, according to the Italian agency Ansa.
Other Italian football clubs and personalities paid tribute to Berlusconi, such as the brand new ‘Scudetto’ championNapoli, who expressed “condolences” of its president Aurelio De Laurentiis and of the club.
“Silvio Berlusconi changed the history of Italian football”, the president of the Italian Football Federation, Gabriele Gravina, estimated in a statement.
“He made history of this sport (…) taking Italian football to the top of Europe and the world”, valued for his part Lorenzo Casini, president of Serie A.
