The glorious football saga of Silvio Berlusconi’s Milan is revived through the unpublished memories of Dario Bonetti, former Rossoneri defender who, in the interview given to today’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport, recounted his Rossoneri experience in the 1986-1987 season. The player, who in Serie A also wore the shirts of illustrious clubs such as Roma, Sampdoria, Verona and Juventus, wanted to celebrate the figure of the mythical President of the Devil on the exact fortieth anniversary of his takeover, revealing a striking anecdote lived on the training fields of Milanello and the details of the historic choreographed presentation staged at the Arena Civica in Milan.

The football season in question represented the true zero year of the red and black club, a period of technical and economic transition managed on the bench by Nils Liedholm before the advent of Arrigo Sacchi’s revolution. Dario Bonetti, born in 1961, was one of the protagonists on the green rectangle of that team, collecting a total of 28 overall appearances, divided between the 24 league matches and the 4 tokens collected in the Coppa Italia.

Milanello prophecy and the helicopter at the Arena Civica

"At Milanello one of the first days he told us we would win in Europe and become the strongest team in the world. Almost everyone took him for a madman, instead he was a visionary". Words that perfectly describe the boundless ambition of a management intent on overturning the old hierarchies of Italian and European football through commercial and image innovation.

The President’s attention to detail and the winners’ carriage

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