A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL
A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL
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00:00 A law not written by football, but passed from expert to expert, is that on the pitch, in this sport, you win only when there is a group.
00:09 Never close the door to exception, but in a sport structurally devoid of absolute truths like football, this can be one of the few, solid and indisputable.
00:21 In football you win if there is a group and the spark of the group is born.
00:26 This can happen in one place, the dressing room. But what is the dressing room, Alessandro Florenzi?
00:32 I think the dressing room is the basis of everything, it is a second family, both in terms of quality and quantity.
00:44 Besides our families, the dressing room is what we share the most time, of our career and our life. It is certainly a help for anyone who needs it.
00:58 I have been in many important dressing rooms, where I have received a lot of help since I was a child and there were older than me. I try to bring what has been an example for me to the young people of today.
01:18 Just like that, when you lose a derby by scoring many goals, the first contact with the hard reality is to look each other in the eyes with your teammates at the end of the game.
01:27 In the dressing room, of course. And it is always there, in the dressing room, that all the electricity and all the adrenaline that still vibrates is discharged from a victory in a Champions League night, with all San Siro sold out, like that one, against Paris Saint-Germain, of the great Mbappé.
01:43 You can feel the hard kick and you can see the size of the great undertaking. Always in the same place, always in the dressing room. But be careful, it is not a matter of square meters and walls.
01:55 It is certainly something more, in addition to the pre-training, what you see in the game, in the post-match, are also extra-football things that we like to do together.
02:14 Because we all have to have breakfast together, or at least some people who want to do it together. Then, of course, there are many people who do different things, they have different schedules, they have many different things.
02:26 Many family fathers are here very early. This is because we bring our children to school and then we come live.
02:34 Keeping in mind what Alessandro Florenzi says, the dressing room is the young Simic, who does the interview after the goal at Monza in the corridor of the Mix Zone of San Siro, and behind him pass the most experienced teammates who smile and comment on their turn.
02:50 The dressing room is the Eao, who sings with his teammates in Pullman, immediately after the Olympic victory against Rome. The dressing room is the one Mike Mignana tends to, in Udine, after the one-time episode of brutality and intolerance.
03:03 A dressing room in which the whole team was ready to go with him, because when such a low blow comes to one of us, we are all with him. Here is the essence of the dressing room.
03:14 It is the moment when we speak, we look each other in the eyes, in which we clarify everything that needs to be clarified and we share everything, but everything. Without rules, without codes, but with a lot of sporting spirit.
03:25 And with the ability to get naked and to be boys without the allure of the star system of football. People without the screens of TV and the big media.
03:36 The dressing room is a delicate topic. Often we talk about the dressing room, assuming that there are rules of non-nissanism, where who is the oldest, by militancy, determines the behavior.
03:48 No, the dressing room is not this, it is quite the opposite. What I experienced as a player was a dressing room that had an attitude in the unique work, and the example set the line to follow.
03:59 From that experience and then from the subsequent ones, I strengthened the idea that the dressing room must know how to welcome, must know how to accompany, support, especially those who have difficulties, those who are divergent.
04:11 A team, as Marcelo Bielsa says, is stronger the more it understands the importance of defending the table ring. This must be the dressing room.
04:21 The dressing room of the 70s was the interview that the journalists of the press did after the games in all Italian stadiums.
04:29 Today the dressing room is more mediated, more selective, but at the same time it enters the houses of the fans before each game, with the shots, these yes, square meter by square meter.
04:39 What it has in series is the dressing room, which in league is the dressing room, which in Premier League is the locker room. But be careful, that's not the dressing room.
04:50 Yes, of course, in front of the cupboards and on the benches you prepare, you dress for the game, you face each other with teammates, with the coach, the last things to say, to put in place before playing, but that's not the dressing room.
05:04 If you enter the dressing room and you want to change, it's not for the money or for the audience, it's because that group of guys is fine together.
05:12 "To make a dressing room" is much more than a sentence made, it is a project of victory and the direction towards which a group will go without leaving anyone behind.
05:20 And after having done the dressing room, you need to have the strength to be a dressing room.
05:25 If there is a very delicate moment and if a historic bomber in the football of the national teams and in the football of clubs like Olivier Giroud looks for the coach's gaze to tell him that he is with him and that he will come out together, the dressing room is not a fact, a moment of just words.
05:40 It is the example of an exponent of a group of players that carries a mature and constructive feeling, straight to the sensitivity of those who are responsible for the group, but at the same time part of the group.
05:51 That's why the dressing room is the soul of the team. Being inside the team does not mean watching it on TV or commenting on social media, but you have to live before and then know how each player expresses himself in relation to the others.
06:04 Many individual relationships that become the solid network that must protect against possible falls, attacks from the outside world, but not only, but also from those excesses of euphoria that can generate superficiality and approximation.
06:17 The players meet together in a team, in a group, in a dressing room, for the sole reason of having signed a contract with the same company, but if only that remains, it is over.
06:26 The contract, the project, the entrance to a sports center are only the first stone. Then the work starts, technical and professional, but also human and characteristic, to get to the dressing room, the right one, the real one.
06:39 The dressing room is the chat of the team, the dinner all together after training and Florenzi, who acts as an ally of everything he does on the field to get to the goal of the team, without looking too much and without looking only at the box of his goals scored.
06:53 It is the whole group that is happy if he signs the young Ciacca Traoré. The dressing room is what rightly trusts Antonio Mirante, who returns after a long time to play from the first minute in a bubbling bulge like that of Milan Juventus.
07:05 Historically, the dressing room is what brought Paolo Maldini and Zvone Boban both in front of the cameras to clarify a misunderstanding that was evident to everyone on the field of Bergamo, but also what takes place under the curve, the shirt with the name of Simon Kier, just operated on the knee cross after the first goal scored.