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00:00 The Blues in Rouge et Noir, the Reds in Blue, are there and they are strong.
00:04 They score, they score, they are proud of their belonging and sometimes they wear the captain's belt.
00:09 They are one world champion, the other vice, and then the goalkeeper who is hungry for European and World Cup and the metronome in constant growth.
00:18 When Yassin Hadli, Olivier Giroud and Theo Hernandez scored, they among all the French, against Rome at the beginning of 2024, the team also won.
00:28 Here is France that wins and smiles, that celebrates and marks in Italy.
00:33 A France with the Milan jersey.
00:35 Two destinies declined and synthesized by Jean-Pierre Papin, who won a lot with Milan and has the stem of the roosters in his heart.
00:42 He, Jean-Pepin, knows well that the French are many and strong and that, as demonstrated by the performance of the Blues in Rouge et Noir,
00:49 with all the talents of his country, they can do even more than a competitive national team, so much so that he tries to count and imagine them.
00:58 Two, even three, in my opinion, because we have young players, under 21, who are very strong, who could also play in national team A.
01:07 So we have very strong players.
01:10 All our players play abroad, almost, and they have been successful everywhere.
01:18 So for Didier Deschamps it is an incredible award and in my opinion he does it very well.
01:26 But the teams, both national and club, always start from there, from the base, from the foundations.
01:31 A stalwart who is fatally embodied by number one, the goalkeeper, the poles, the lighthouse.
01:39 The goalkeeper is not only the first name that is declared in a formation, especially if, as in the case of Mike Maignan,
01:45 the goalkeeper is part of the team's soul.
01:49 He embodies it, protects it, sublimates it, highlights it.
01:52 Mike Maignan, the icon goalkeeper, the character goalkeeper, the champion who always lights up great comparisons in his best moments of form
02:00 and discussions lit up in the physiological, condition and inspiration moments, not at the top.
02:06 But the sentence of Giovanni Galli, the "black-red of the immortals", is clear.
02:12 A goalkeeper like Maignan can be analyzed in moments, but never discuss the essence,
02:18 the essence of the player, the forge of his talent, the solidity of his performance.
02:24 He probably went through a moment of flexion, but you can't argue with what he's done so far.
02:35 What he did in France, what he did in Italy, what he did with his national team.
02:40 If it was a concentration error, you have to understand that you can't give up for a moment.
02:46 If it was a technical error, you have to improve it with training.
02:51 I think he's in a position, just as much, without going to touch the immensity of this goalkeeper.
03:03 Giovanni Galli knows how the delicate, technical, psychological mechanisms of the understanding of the base between a goalkeeper and his teammates in defence work.
03:12 They live on symbiosis, on glances, on perceptions.
03:16 And everything must be looked at and understood at best in all the training sessions, in the single moments of the matches.
03:23 Milan, 2023/2024, has often changed defensive assets.
03:28 Many players have been fired up, there have been several regrets for the injured defenders.
03:35 And this is part of the moments.
03:37 Even for a goalkeeper who managed to make a great save at the end of November 2023 against Fiorentina, in San Siro.
03:44 Also with a high fever, also with his face swollen.
03:48 Offered to the trajectory of an opponent who could hurt Milan, but to whom?
03:52 He thought, and only he, how more effectively he could not really do it.
03:58 Face injury, major injury.
04:00 When you have a feeling with your central defenders, this certainly helps in a context.
04:07 Because you know what the strengths of your teammate are.
04:13 You know what the aspects are where he suffers a little more.
04:18 In communication, which is what I think is fundamental between goalkeepers and central defenders.
04:26 If the two central defenders are always the same, it is not enough.
04:35 Instead, if you change, you have to change communication, you have to change attitudes.
04:41 If you have a team-mate, this can be a cause for these things.
04:49 But I start from another assumption.
04:52 In my opinion, we had it right.
04:58 Elevated to a goalkeeper who never made mistakes and who scored a few goals.
05:08 To be a goalkeeper who scores goals and says, "Maybe last year he wouldn't have scored this goal."
05:15 "Maybe two years ago he wouldn't have scored this goal."
05:18 There are moments when you are in great shape, they shoot you a goal, they put it at the crossbar.
05:24 And you eat your liver because you know you're in great shape.
05:28 But unfortunately that ball is unpredictable.
05:31 There are moments when you have a physiological drop, tension, anything.
05:38 And maybe you take the abandonment in your face and they tell you that you were the best on the field.
05:43 You also need to do some assessments on what the progress of the game is.
05:52 I think Maignan is one of the three best goalkeepers in the world.
05:57 When the team needs it, Maignan puts his face on it.
06:03 Physically, technically, in the game.
06:06 But metaphorically, Theo Hernandez did the same.
06:09 He put his face on it, raising his hand.
06:12 A few days before Christmas 2023, Fik Tomori was injured in Milan.
06:17 He was in Salerno and the Reds were watching each other on the pitch.
06:23 What do we do now?
06:25 Many central defenders injured, only one available.
06:28 The experienced and unyielding Simon Kier with the young Jean-Carlo Simic ready to kick.
06:34 At that point, Theo gets up and proposes.
06:38 There is a problem and he thinks about it.
06:40 I play central, I'm there, the French national is available.
06:44 The wins against Sassuolo and Empoli and the following games
06:47 show how this new role has certainly increased Theo's experience.
06:53 So much so that social discussion was born
06:57 about whether it was better to have the total left-wing Theo
07:00 or the new-entry Theo, a central defender.
07:03 A theme that was also addressed by a Milanese who wore the Red-Black shirt
07:07 both in the youth teams and in the first team,
07:10 in the 80s and 90s, Giuseppe Cardone.
07:14 More ability in a defensive package.
07:17 It's an advantage because I think you can do both in a 4-man defence
07:21 and in a 3-man defence.
07:24 I think for a boy his age, with the maturity he's gaining, it's fundamental.
07:30 He was a real captain Theo.
07:32 The one who, in the final minutes of Milan-Napoli in February 2024 at San Siro,
07:37 decided to attack every ball that was in his vicinity.
07:41 Worlds, intensity and categories that were different for him
07:45 from the routine, from the comfort zone.
07:47 Worlds he crossed, listening to his dressing room,
07:50 accepting the advice of those who love him,
07:53 doing it first with his eyebrows raised,
07:56 then with a mix of perplexity and uncertainty,
07:58 but in the end, looking inside, Milan, his Milan, his group, his family,
08:03 no longer asked him to just shoot and shoot, shoot and assist,
08:07 but above all, he asked him to take responsibility.
08:10 He first had to metabolise, then understand, but without saying yes or no.
08:14 And then, here he is, in the centre of the defence,
08:17 like in the movies when you hear Rocky's music, when Rocky changes his mood.
08:21 Let's say he's always been a player of great personality.
08:26 This year it seems to me that he has taken another step
08:30 towards complete maturity, where he has become 100% aware of himself.
08:37 And you probably feel this responsibility,
08:41 and I think it can only be a positive thing for the team.
08:45 Welcome among us, you are a leader like us,
08:47 you seem to welcome Theo into the vein of the team,
08:50 not only Simon Kier and Alessandro Florenzi,
08:53 but also Mike Magnana and Olivier Giroud.
08:56 Being a leader is not just a technical fact, but above all a human one,
09:00 so much so that all the fans of the Red-Blacks are used to recognising
09:03 the moment of Milan between the folds of Olivier's face.
09:06 Smiling and relaxed when things are going well,
09:09 serious and corrupted when things are not going well.
09:12 A contribution, that of Giroud, not only of goals and performance,
09:16 of passing to teammates and useful movements to the team,
09:19 but also emotional, mature, sensitive and shared.
09:23 Olivier Giroud arrived in Milan in July 2021,
09:26 but already during the negotiation, on 8 July 2021,
09:30 the day of the meeting of what would become the Milan champion of Italy
09:34 in the following months, Jean-Pierre Papin invited the entire Red-Black people
09:38 to rely on him. And after so many important and heavy goals,
09:42 Che Pepe remembers well that moment when he anticipated in full
09:46 the birth of the era of Oli.
09:48 I know him perfectly, I knew he could score so many goals,
09:54 he went everywhere and scored goals.
09:58 I was sure that Milan would succeed too.
10:02 Great champions, great nationals, and there is someone
10:05 among the French stars of Milan who can still become one.
10:09 Yacine Adli was born in the Marne Valley,
10:12 Île-de-France, in the regions of the Seine,
10:15 he knows how to be patient on the riverbed, he knows how to improve step by step,
10:19 meter by meter, going through his experiences and his ambitions,
10:23 through his emotions and his ability to get excited.
10:27 Even on Yacine Adli, Jean-Pierre Papin was a good prophet,
10:31 he said he was not ready when he arrived in Milan
10:34 and that he should have improved. What did he do?
10:37 Brilliantly and inexorably, Yass, as he is called in Milan,
10:41 is not the Cirque du Soleil Breton, already represented in Milan years ago
10:46 by the ballers at the intermittence of Johan Gorkyf.
10:50 Maybe with less kicks, less height, but more constancy,
10:53 more regularity with his step and his method.
10:56 When he arrived in Milan he was not ready,
10:59 because I had seen him play in Bordeaux and in my opinion
11:03 something was missing. And in my opinion, he has also learned a lot
11:08 in recent years. I think he will have a good surprise for Milan today.
11:18 For more information on the Yass, visit www.marcoparet.com/contact
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