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00:00Blues and Rossoneri, history, feeling, reliability in the negotiations, great structure.
00:07He played for Chelsea, Olivier Giroud, who at the time when Milan won a derby against Inter,
00:13shouted and cheered, making the video call in the San Siro dressing room to party with his former teammates for the goal of Matteo Gabbia.
00:23Oli is approved in Milanello directly via Cobham, the great sports centre of Chelsea.
00:29Cobham, avant-garde in England. Milanello, avant-garde in Italy.
00:34Milanello, which has recently evolved with the Sports Centre, a small building,
00:39born for the spring and subsequently dedicated to Milan Futuro.
00:44Two dressing rooms with 27 seats each, which allow in power to host two teams,
00:49especially for friendly challenges.
00:51A gym with all the essential equipment.
00:54A room dedicated to swimming pools for activation and muscle recovery, but not only.
00:59A room dedicated to physiotherapy and some left available to the staff,
01:03including a media room and a video room.
01:06The historical Milanello and the Milanello of today,
01:09compared to the exhausted spaces available by the Chelsea FC Cobham Training Ground.
01:15A comparison that is made with emotion by Carlo Cudicini,
01:19the son of the historic goalkeeper Fabio Cudicini.
01:22Carlo grew up in the Milanese youth.
01:25He played for Chelsea and still works for Chelsea.
01:29The last time I visited Milanello, in Carnago, was more than 30 years ago.
01:35A historical training centre, if I remember correctly, founded in the 60s.
01:44I imagine that over the years it has undergone periods of restructuring.
01:50Cobham was built closer to what it is today.
01:58In 2007, Cobham was considered super avant-garde.
02:03A modern training ground, built under the watchful eye of José Mourinho,
02:09who at the time was our coach.
02:12A similar thing is that the two are more or less at a distance of 40-45 minutes by car
02:21from the two main cities, Milan and London.
02:25An important difference is that Cobham hosts all the football activities of the club.
02:34There is the first team, there is the whole youth team,
02:37which, as you know, has shown innumerable talents.
02:41Then there is the women's team, which still follows with many trophies,
02:48now from the men's team.
02:50Given the number of teams, it is a huge ground,
02:54which boasts, if I'm not mistaken, around 20-25 football fields.
03:01When you often talk about the football market between two major metropolitan clubs,
03:05you shake hands and conclude negotiations.
03:09This is also because their historical memories are of a high level.
03:13The first hints of the feeling Milan-Chelsea and Chelsea-Milan
03:16during the 2018-2019 season.
03:20In the summer of 2018, in fact, the French midfielder Timoé Bakayoko
03:24took over Milan for the first time.
03:28A loan market operation for an athlete who, a year earlier,
03:31had gone from Monaco to Stamford Bridge for 40 million euros.
03:36In January 2019, however, it is Gonzalo Higuaín
03:41who is still in loan from Milan to Chelsea via Juventus.
03:46Asmir Begovic, former Chelsea goalkeeper,
03:49was then among the reinforcements of the Milan market in January 2020,
03:53when the team Rossonera was no longer coached by Arino Gattuso,
03:56but by Stefano Pioli.
03:58The pieces of the puzzle are getting heavier and heavier.
04:02Ficaioto Mori leaves Cobham, the great training center for the Blues,
04:06in January 2021 to join Milanello.
04:09A few months pass, Tomori is rescued in the summer of 2021
04:13and the ski race continues.
04:15Here are the Viegirur Rossonero, after three and a half seasons,
04:18scored 119 games and 39 goals with the Chelsea shirt.
04:23But it was at Milan that Oli turned around and won the Scudetto,
04:27writing another page of that story that Carlo Cudicini knows well.
04:32There is certainly one thing in common,
04:35and it is that all the two clubs have seen and hosted
04:40some of the best players in the world,
04:43both on the national and international field.
04:46They celebrated with these players a considerable number,
04:52an important number of trophies.
04:55Just think about it, almost 50 trophies for Milan from the 60s onwards
05:00and for Chelsea in the last 15 years,
05:03which was when he moved from Harlington to Cobham.
05:06Chelsea still has more than 20 trophies in the sky.
05:10And then, in short, linked to this last anecdote,
05:14it is useless to deny it, there is an interesting link between these two companies,
05:18especially in the last 20 years of Rossonero.
05:21You have a lot of players and coaches,
05:24obviously Carletto, Ancelotti and Ruud Gullit,
05:28who at Chelsea was the player manager,
05:31who wore the shirts of these two clubs.
05:35Now, if I'm not mistaken, I checked a month ago,
05:39there were almost 30, from Desailly and Panucci to Ruud Gullit,
05:45to Crespo, Sepp Cenko, even Giorgione Weah,
05:49from my time, when I played at Chelsea,
05:52to those who are a little more recent,
05:55from Tiago Silva, Giroud, Tomori, Loftus-Chi,
06:00and from this year, Tammy Abrams.
06:03I would say that these are the similarities and differences
06:06between the two sports centres and between Milan and Chelsea.
06:12After the 2022-2023 season,
06:15without transfers to confirm the feeling between London and Rossoneri,
06:18here is the summer of 2023.
06:20Ruben Loftus-Chi and Christian Pulisic
06:23move from Chelsea to Milan for good.
06:26And it's not over, because in the last weeks of the market of 2024,
06:32Alvaro Morata and Tammy Abrams also arrived in Milan.
06:36There were no direct negotiations between the two clubs,
06:39but the captain of Spain, European champion,
06:41played at Chelsea from the summer of 2017 to January 2019,
06:46with 72 games and 24 goals,
06:49while Abrams was not yet seven years old
06:52when he set foot in the youth team of the Blues.
06:55Contributions of quality and experience are important,
06:58those that come from the top clubs of the Premier League, like Chelsea,
07:01to the Italian Serie A, as the journalist Luca Serafini found out.
07:06What determines the success of a foreigner in Italy?
07:11The culture, the habits, the context.
07:14And for an English player, it is frankly much more difficult
07:18than, for example, a Spaniard, who is more similar to our habits,
07:23or a German, who is more rigid,
07:26who therefore maintains his rules even when he goes to live abroad,
07:31or the same French, who does not move away from our habits.
07:35For the English, this is very different.
07:37The English have always struggled to go abroad
07:41to be successful in football,
07:44because their context, their environment, their culture, their traditions,
07:50their way of living, of training, is different from the Italian one.
07:54We have had many talents, Italian football was born thanks to the English,
07:59but after the war, compared to the number of players who have arrived,
08:03the successes are frankly very few.
08:06In Juventus, we remember John Charles,
08:10one of the greatest players in black and white history,
08:13and in Milan, with great affection, Wilkie Seaclair.
08:17London Experience, but not only.
08:20There are the towers, the new ones, those of the EUR,
08:22which made the journey from home to the yellow-red sports centre of Trigoria particularly short,
08:28for Ebram.
08:29Trigoria, the modern structure of Rome,
08:32from which, on the last day of the market, in August 2024,
08:35Tammy moved to Milan.
08:38The telechronist of AS Roma, Alessandro Spartà,
08:41describes and remembers Tammy Ebram in this way,
08:44especially from a human point of view.
08:46A good boy, a sensitive boy,
08:48and it is true that you see him on the pitch too,
08:50he always tries to support the public,
08:52he tries to involve the public.
08:53He is a particular and sunny boy,
08:55with his teammates, always smiling, in training.
08:58So a good and sensitive boy.
09:01As for, for example, life here in Rome,
09:04he lived a quarter of an hour from Trigoria,
09:06so from the residential part of Rome to the EUR,
09:09where you are very comfortable,
09:11the neighbourhood is very green,
09:12where there are these two towers that they built,
09:14he lived there,
09:15so it took him 15 minutes to come to Trigoria.
09:19He was a beautiful one-year-old boy,
09:22I know he had a personal taste,
09:25and very, very, let's say, attracted by high fashion.
09:31He came to Trigoria always when there was a lot of fashion,
09:34with very particular suits,
09:37so he was very attracted to high fashion.