Football: I carry forward Shaolin Kung Fu

Gazidis was still chattering:

"... To sum up, as long as we beat Inter Milan in the 33rd round, we can continue to save the hope of winning the championship, otherwise, we can all take early vacation, Pioli can go to the beach to bask in the sun, you can also go to Qatar to accompany your wife to buy LV bags!

Maldini trembled!

Grandma's, what are you talking about?

When my dad played for Milan, you didn't know where it was!

However, time has changed.

AC Milan is no longer an Italian team, it was sold to the Americans.

Gazidis, the CEO and Maldini's superior, has a lot of power and can fire him at any time.

Maldini endured the anger in his heart, and said in a cold tone:

"We lost too many points in the early stage of the league, after the efforts of the whole team, there are only five points left to chase and the top of the table, and the Milan derby at the weekend, even if the team does not mobilize, we understand that we must give it our all, after all, this is a six-point battle, our only chance to turn over."

Gazidis snorted through his nose, put his legs on the table, folded his hands around his chest, and said to Maldini:

"I am the CEO of the Premier League, and I came to Italy to change your backward management mechanism and cultivate your business thinking."

"Maldini, don't learn from Inter's Zanetti, don't keep running to orphanages, schools, hospitals, engage in these useless charities and public welfare, for Milan at this stage, you do this, in addition to creating your personal image of a good person, there will be no improvement in the club's competitive rankings!"

"Only by winning the Serie A championship will our traffic and exposure rise, and the revenue links such as TV broadcast sharing, commercial sponsorship, advertising, ticket and season ticket sales can make a qualitative leap, do you understand, Maldini?"

The more Gazidis spoke, the more his saliva whizzed like a watering can.

"Also, my dear old captain, I don't agree with your statement, what does it mean that the team does not need to be mobilized?"

"You look at their exhausted energy in the first few games, especially the few Italians in the team, running a lot less than last year, I've seen the data, I know it."

"As the technical director, you have to go to the training ground, go to the dressing room and reiterate to the players the importance of the Milan derby! It's about the club's operating income and valuation, and how the club can keep its income and expenditure intact without being penalized under Europe's increasingly tightening fiscal fairness law!

"First of all, you have to pay attention to yourself, the sporting director does not pay attention to it, do I expect the players to pay attention, is that true, Mr. Maldini..."

He suddenly got up, walked to the glass curtain wall, and pulled the curtains.

Click!

I dragged it a few times, but I couldn't pull it away.

"What are you doing?" Gazidis was surprised.

"It's noisy, Lao Tzu wants to pull the curtains!" It's so dark that I want to see some sunshine to feel comfortable! Maldini yelled at him.

Gazidis did not expect Maldini to lose his temper.

He was a little frightened.

"What are you doing yelling so loudly?"

"I'm electric, I'm going to use the remote control!"

Gazidis pressed the electric curtain remote control, and after two beeps, the curtain slowly opened from the middle to the sides.

The bright Mediterranean sun and the tide flood into the office.

The carpet is covered with golden light, and you can see the dust flying in the pillar of light.

Everything in the interior is metal and glass, crystal trophies, pen cases, door handles, ashtrays, and aluminum decorations of tables, all shimmering in the sunlight.

Even Gazidis's big bald head is shiny.

"Mr. Gazidis, although you and I know that Milan is no longer the Milan of the nineties, Serie A, now not comparable to the Premier League and the West, but you have to understand that Milan's players, as long as they wear this shirt, will be endowed with an innate sense of honor and mission!"

"In our first-round clash with Inter, we were pitted by our own fans and were sentenced 0-3, but our players, the fighting spirit shown on the field, are fully worthy of Milan's red and black shirt!"

"I say no mobilization because the whole team, including you and me, understands what this Milan derby means for the team and what it means to this shirt."

Maldini looked unusually angry, his long hair swaying from side to side with his voice.

He leaned over the wide desk of Daugazidis and hammered two punches.

"Don't tell me what broadcast shares, advertising revenue, sponsors, tickets, I'm an old Milanese, my dad is in Milan, I'm in Milan, my eldest son has also played in Milan, three generations of our grandchildren are Milanese, I love Milan more than anyone, no one knows this team better than me, even my blood, it's red and black!"



Paolo Maldini, AC Milan's spiritual totem

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You businessmen have your businessmen's way, we Milanese have our Milanese way, this is not a contradiction, you can be your CEO, but don't be on your toes and point fingers at our traditional Italian football culture!"

Gazidis put his legs down, touched his shiny forehead, spread his hands towards Maldini, and said with an innocent face:

"I'm here for the good of the team, you and I are both the management of AC Milan, it's not easy to achieve this position, not to mention we are all doing things for the Americans, and we are responsible for the Elliott Group, aren't we?"

Maldini sneered, turned away, turned his back to Gazidis, and waved his hand disdainfully.

"I'm not like you, I'm only responsible for the Milan team, for the Milan fans."

"I'm telling you, Gazidis, I retired in 2009 and I could have gone back to Milan then, but do you know why I came back after 10 years? Think about it! "

Maldini has indeed been a bit resentful over the years.

He is highly respected at the club and was invited to management as soon as he retired in 2009.

But Maldini never agreed, because AC Milan's conditions for dismissal could not meet him.

This condition is not a salary, Maldini's deep love for Milan allows him to work for the club for free for the whole of his playing career.

The only point of disagreement is that Maldini is not satisfied with being a mascot, he wants real power, the right to do things for Milan!

So, it wasn't until 2018 that Maldini returned to AC Milan as the club's sporting director.

Not enough, after Milan was acquired by the Americans, the contradictions and conflicts between foreign self-recognition and Italian local forces became more and more intense!

Some people of the older generation don't understand how such a big club in our country was bought by an American capitalist?

In the process of competing for core power, Americans and Italians also looked at each other incorrectly, and even suspected each other, secretly making each other.

Maldini flicked his sleeves away, snapped, and slammed the door shut, shaking Gazidis all over.

The South African stayed quiet for a while, pressed the remote control, and closed the electric curtain again.

"Hmph, the ability is not big, the tone is not small, a gang style, Italians are this stinky temper, untidy!"



AC Milan CEO, South African Gazidis

closed with blackout curtains on either side.

Darkness once again shrouded the Milan CEO's office, and the shining of Gazidis's bald head gradually dimmed.