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00:00That result on Lake Como, almost always the same.
00:04In the last 40 years, Milan has not often played on the edge of the air,
00:09but every time it has been presented, one of these results has always come out.
00:13Draws, 0-0 as in 1985 and 1-1 as in 1986 and as in 1989,
00:22or even in the year of the Scudetto in 1988,
00:26or 1-0 wins for Milan as in 1987,
00:30but also 2-1 for Milan as in 2002 and 2025.
00:35Very far results, for example from that 5-0 in 10 Rossoneri against 11 Comanschi,
00:43obtained by Milan di Sacchi,
00:45or very far from that 4-0 in the fog of January 1989,
00:50which saved the bench of the same Arrigo,
00:52a few days after the individual meetings in the Camper,
00:55held in Milanello.
00:56Como is always Como, always history.
00:59In 1986, Milan played, and of course tied 1-1,
01:04the last game before becoming the property of Silvio Berlusconi himself.
01:08Without half-terms, therefore, the stadium crumbles,
01:12either nightmare or dawn of a new day.
01:14The dawn would have been the Scudetto of 1988,
01:18but six years earlier, only nightmare.
01:21It was March 1982,
01:24and on 2-0 in favor of Como after 50 minutes of play,
01:28the Rossoneri tried to reopen the game,
01:31but Milan also ended up wasting a penalty,
01:34kicked out by Roberto Dustin Antonelli.
01:38The fans went on all furies,
01:40unleashing a very hard contestation,
01:43which took shape in a launch of objects on the field.
01:46The door of the Rossoneri goalkeeper Piotti was literally targeted.
01:50A rock hit the Rossoneri defender with his head.
01:54The defender fell to the ground,
01:56the national stopper considered one of the pillars of the Rossoneri team.
02:00It was he who began that day to think of saying goodbye to Milan.
02:04The aftermath was even more tense in Como.
02:07The forces of the order clashed with the ultra-Rossoneri,
02:10while the players were forced to stay in the changing rooms for over an hour.
02:14Near the Lariano stadium, there were scenes of urban guerrilla.
02:19For the Rossoneri club, the disqualification of the field in San Siro took place for two rounds.
02:24At the end of that Sunday, Milan remained in the penultimate place in the table.
02:30For Como, the victory against the Rossoneri in 1982
02:34was the only satisfaction,
02:36together with the draw in the first leg against the Rossoneri,
02:39in a last-of-the-class season.
02:42Como, dawn and nightmare,
02:44it's all in the memory of Filippo Galli.
02:48The Stadio Sinigaglia, on the banks of Lake Como,
02:51for me, are bivalent memories.
02:54The first one was in 1981-82,
02:56when, unfortunately, with the mistake from Roberto Antonelli's disc,
03:00the fury of our fans was unleashed against Fulvio Collovati,
03:05who was hit by a rock.
03:07I was a little boy then, I was only on the bench,
03:09but that moment was really something incredible.
03:12Another moment, however, much more beautiful,
03:15refers to the goals that we, as Milan, scored in that stadium.
03:20There are many memorable goals,
03:22but certainly it remains in my heart, in my memories,
03:26the one scored by Pietro Paolo Virdis.
03:28Because, although he didn't allow us to win that game,
03:31because he then drew Salvatore Giunta, the attacker of Como,
03:35that game practically gave us the scudetto.
03:39The eleventh scudetto, the Razzacchi,
03:41and something really extraordinary started for us.
03:44So, certainly, the Stadio Sinigaglia is something
03:47that, in short, always recalls good moments for the Rossoneri fans.
03:51In Como, Paolo Maldini scored his first Serie A goal.
03:55It was January 4, 1987.
03:58Milan were on the pitch with the Rossoneri shirt
04:00with very, very wide stripes.
04:03At the Stadio Sinigaglia, with a view of the lake,
04:06Franco Baresi scored one of his rare Serie A goals.
04:09In the first game in Italy played by Milan,
04:12he came back from Barcelona,
04:14from that 4-0 against Steaua Bucarest in the Champions League final.
04:19Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi, and Teo Hernandez in Como.
04:23In Paolo's first goal, his idol,
04:25he scored his 30th goal as a Rossoneri defender.
04:28A record, on a podium,
04:30that shows the flying thirds of two great Rossoneri families,
04:33the Maldini, but also the Maldera.
04:35Aldo, the fantastic Rossoneri goalkeeper,
04:38of the Scudetto della Stella.
04:40A good man, Aldo.
04:42A great Milanista,
04:43in whose smile the entire generation of Rossoneri fans recognized themselves.
04:48Those very fans who lived Como 1988
04:52and the Scudetto Tricolore Berlusconi-Sacchi as a liberation.
04:56That Sunday, May 1988, at the Stadio Sinigaglia in Como,
05:00there was a very long queue for tickets for the decisive game.
05:04A queue that was resolved in a series of
05:07no, I'm sorry, the tickets are over.
05:10Almost 70,000 requests for a 22,000-ticket availability,
05:15of which 15,000 had already been assigned to Milan.
05:19However, the crowd did not stop,
05:22who had organized a grand caravan following Milan,
05:26with a tour of Lake Como on Sunday morning,
05:29and a bath, of course, dressed at the end of the game,
05:32to remember all this, the journalist Luca Serafini.
05:36On May 15, 1988, the last day of the season,
05:40a draw was enough for Milan to win the Scudetto.
05:44I worked in the Milan newsroom,
05:46and with photographer Gianni Buzzi,
05:48we went to Como already at 10 in the morning,
05:51to go and take pictures of the high road that goes to Switzerland,
05:56of the caravans of the Milan fans who were arriving at the stadium,
06:00and to do, as they said in slang, a little bit of color.
06:04I came back to Como this year, in 2025,
06:08for the victory of Milan signed by Teo Hernandez and Aleao.
06:13I found in the stands, in the hospitality,
06:16more foreigners than Italians.
06:18The property is very ambitious.
06:20The hospitality is even organized in a wonderful villa,
06:25next to the stadium, 300 meters,
06:27because the structures are still small.
06:30The environment is very warm, the stadium is suggestive,
06:33it is certainly one of the most beautiful in Italy for lodging,
06:36and I understand that a property like this has ambitions
06:40not only in football, but also throughout the territory.
06:44Many years later, in 2025, still in Como.
06:47In practice, Milan had just finished the game with Cagliari in San Siro,
06:51which was already starting, the next one, a few days later, in Como.
06:55Few hours of recovery, few hours of rest, and also few hours of work.
07:00Between one game and the other, between the end of Milan-Cagliari
07:02at 10.40 p.m. on Saturday, January 11,
07:04and the start of Como-Milan at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14, 2025.
07:09Tour de force, absolutely.
07:12But it was certainly not the first time.
07:14The last time that Milan had played at the Sinigaglia,
07:17in Riva All'Ario, more or less the same thing had happened,
07:20indeed, more.
07:22It was Wednesday, December 11, 2002,
07:25and Milan played at Dortmund,
07:27against Borussia in the Champions League,
07:29evening at minus 10 degrees, a very cold night.
07:34The evening after, on December 12,
07:36Milan was on the pitch at the Caldo di Doha,
07:39for a friendly against the National of Qatar,
07:42departure directly from Dortmund.
07:44Then, from Qatar to Milanello, on December 15, 2002, Como-Milan.
07:50Carlo Ancelotti, the coach of the time,
07:53defined it as the most tiring week of the year,
07:55from the under-zero of Westphalia,
07:57to the 30 degrees of Doha,
07:59for the friendly won 6-0 by the Rossoneri,
08:01against the National of Qatar,
08:03up to the humidity of Milanello and Como.
08:06Humidity felt on the way home,
08:08Saturday, December 14,
08:10just one day before the 2-1 win on the Lariani pitch,
08:14with goals before Massimo Ambrosini and then Andriy Shevchenko.
08:18The third game of the week,
08:20at Como, after Dortmund and Doha,
08:23was not a brilliant performance by the Rossoneri,
08:26a mistake of Dida on the momentary draw of Como,
08:29who was last in the table,
08:31and a conspicuous complete defeat in the final of the race.
08:34But the final win, 2-1 for Milan,
08:36made everything go in second order.
08:38Not enough, however, to darken the prudence of Massimo Ambrosini,
08:42who, in that December 2002 at Como,
08:44was on the pitch among a thousand fears,
08:46fever, many injuries.
08:48At the time of his goal, Ambro,
08:50he dedicated his joy to the then-historical
08:52athletic coach of Milan, Daniele Tognaccini,
08:55who tells everything here.
08:57That day when Massimo scored the 2-1 goal against Como,
09:02he had a fever,
09:04and he didn't feel like playing.
09:06Then I talked to him,
09:08and I explained to him many different things
09:11about what could happen with a fever,
09:13among many other things, but this is true.