Throwback Monza
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00:00 The stories of Rossoneri born in Monza are not even counted.
00:04 Stories of great emotions,
00:06 stories in plain sight in the gallery of club memories.
00:09 Walter De Vecchi was unfortunately absent that June day of 1977 at the Braglia Stadium in Modena.
00:17 He, the midfielder and owner of that Monza,
00:21 metronome and director, source of geometry and organization.
00:25 If his Monza had won against a Modena that had nothing to ask for the league,
00:31 the Bianzoni would have gone straight to Serie A without going through the draw.
00:37 Instead, while at least the draw was safe,
00:41 on the 1-1 a few minutes from the end,
00:43 here is the 2-1 of Modena, ruthless,
00:46 a goal scored by Benito Michelazzi,
00:50 who was a Monza defender,
00:52 who unfortunately for the Biancorossi scored a goal.
00:55 Monza from second to fifth in the virtual.
00:58 All in a moment, no promotion, no draw.
01:02 A fifth place without appeal,
01:04 because on that afternoon of June 1977
01:07 the last day of the championship was played,
01:10 which still today someone calls "Cadet".
01:13 Who knows what would have happened if Monza had won in Modena.
01:17 Maybe if he had gone up to Serie A,
01:19 he would not have reached the goal.
01:21 He, Walter De Vecchi,
01:23 the protagonist of the miracle of the Rossonera star.
01:26 To be precise, the day of the miracle was not even two years after Modena,
01:31 the day of the return derby of the 1978-79 championship,
01:36 a gray afternoon of March,
01:38 Inter Milan, at the Nerazzurri.
01:41 The miracle is done by Milan, but signed by the lawyer, De Vecchi, ex-Monza.
01:46 On 2-0 in favor of the Nerazzurri,
01:48 in a derby that seemed already done and finished, written and sculpted,
01:51 ten minutes from the end, here is Fabio Capello's penalty kick,
01:55 just out of the air.
01:56 A simple touch, without frills.
01:58 A side touch, just for De Vecchi.
02:00 Low shot, angled,
02:02 in goal, of the average Milanista,
02:04 who until then had not even played a great game.
02:07 Goal then.
02:08 2-0 Inter, 2-1.
02:10 Evidently, the beautiful and the unexpected still had to come.
02:13 Milan goes to the dugout, while Inter falls apart.
02:16 At the 89th minute, the draw.
02:19 Ball from Ruben Buriani, who was on the field instead,
02:22 on that June day of 1977 in Modena,
02:25 to Aldo Maldera, then again to Capello,
02:27 then to De Vecchi, who is still out of the air.
02:30 The opponent goalkeeper, Ivano Bordone, is out of breath.
02:33 The Rossoneri go crazy with joy on the field and on the grounds,
02:36 2-2, everyone at the stadium was absolutely, incredibly surprised.
02:41 The star of the 10th Scudetto Rossonero was approaching,
02:44 thanks to the double, coming from Monza.
02:47 The goalkeeper of that beautiful and well-dressed Monza,
02:53 from the destiny in Modena, in June 1977,
02:56 was Giuliano Terraneo.
02:58 The goalkeeper called "the poet of Briosco",
03:01 like a hillbilly, crossed by the Valle dell'Ambro.
03:06 Terraneo was the son of the '70s football,
03:09 when it was also possible that a boy
03:12 who played among the professionals had time to write.
03:15 No novels, no comedies, no posts on social networks,
03:19 no Instagram stories, but poetry.
03:22 At the time there were no smartphones,
03:24 nor social networks, but there could be,
03:27 among a thousand ambitions and a thousand interests,
03:30 also a particularly sharp humanity,
03:32 a particularly deep sensitivity.
03:34 So, Giuliano Terraneo, the poet of Briosco,
03:38 who will end his career on the field
03:40 with over 300 appearances in Serie A.
03:42 Black moustache and hard look, Terraneo,
03:45 hid a special emotion for the standards
03:48 of the middle footballer of the time.
03:50 The team of his life would have been the Dutch Torino,
03:53 the Torino of the Scudetto di Gigi Radice.
03:55 But the good Giuliano, the former Monza player,
03:58 passed from the minced meat of Modena to the Scudetto Granata,
04:02 would have found the time to cut himself
04:05 an important slice of the huge cake of history in Milan.
04:09 Everyone, in fact, when they think of the 1984 derby,
04:14 they only mention the goal of Mark Hattele.
04:17 They think of the flight of the English bomber
04:20 born at the derby.
04:21 They talk about Hattele's poster,
04:23 which jumps on Fulvio Collovati,
04:25 present in many cases still today in the rooms
04:27 of all the Milanese fans who can still hear the boys
04:30 watching that photo.
04:32 First, Demetrio Albertini,
04:34 who was the ball-catcher on the field,
04:37 as often happened to the boys in the youth sector,
04:40 and who is among the protagonists of the photo of that poster.
04:43 He, sitting next to the side of a full stadium,
04:46 but so full that it couldn't be fuller.
04:49 All history, all emotions, but often
04:51 we forget to remember who defended that goal from Attila,
04:55 who, with his saves, allowed the historic English bomber
04:58 to be and remain the last player to score in that game,
05:02 until the final whistle of the Bergamo referee of Livorno,
05:06 Milan Inter 2-1.
05:08 That goalkeeper of Milan, that afternoon of October 1984,
05:12 was exactly him, Giuliano Terraneo.
05:15 Just like that, a good part of the credit of Milan's success,
05:19 which had also taken advantage of the physical decline of Inter,
05:22 exhausted by the Coppa in Europe,
05:25 had to go to Terraneo.
05:28 Brianzolo di Briosco, forged by Monza and consecrated by Toro,
05:32 decisive in the red-black shirt,
05:34 in at least three interventions against Inter in the derby of Hattalei.
05:38 The poet of Briosco, since he was there that afternoon,
05:41 had also finished to hypnotize Antonio Sabato,
05:45 who, in recovery, had found himself alone in front of him,
05:48 with the equalizer, which was swallowing all the Nerazzurri.
05:52 But he ended up putting the ball high,
05:55 unleashing the scream of Alessandro Altobelli,
05:58 with so much response for the rhymes of the midfielder.
06:01 Red-blacks close to the final exultation,
06:04 Inter opponents who were fighting among themselves.
06:07 Images that will not return in the purest inspiration of the poet of Briosco,
06:11 but that no Red-black fan has forgotten.
06:14 And that even he, ex-Monza and ex-Milan, Giuliano Terraneo, has forgotten.
06:19 The memory I have of having played in Monza and Milan,
06:24 professionally and humanly, is very overwhelming.
06:27 And having been part of the history of the two societies,
06:31 for me personally, is very important and I think it is overwhelming.
06:36 Monza, with a team of young people,
06:40 who wanted to achieve successes that in their history they had never achieved,
06:45 identified themselves in the city, in the structures,
06:51 so quite usual, I remember my training at the little church,
06:57 behind the campus, where in the sunny days there was mud.
07:02 So this was ... and everything led to identify ourselves,
07:09 and identify ourselves, and give everything for this team, for this society.
07:13 What in Milan, the identification was given,
07:17 especially by these young guys, built in the youth sector,
07:22 the Baresi, the Filippo Galli, the Ricchi, Coevani, Maldini, etc.,
07:30 which then were artificial in the years,
07:34 lasting a thousand years,
07:36 precisely because it was the identification of the society,
07:39 and above all they were excellent players, real men and very serious people.
07:46 The thing is similar to the Monza group I had,
07:50 in that period where I had the opportunity to play,
07:54 and all this led me to be honored to have been part of these two teams,
08:00 and the history of these two teams.
08:05 Today everything is different, the intertwined stories of Rossoneri and Biancorossi,
08:09 of Milanisti and Monzesi have grown and multiplied.
08:12 Like the Antonelli father and son, Roberto Dustin and Luca,
08:16 the first protagonist of the Milan star team,
08:19 the second, present as a kid,
08:21 in that retreat of the first team Rossonera in Malta,
08:24 which preceded the Champions Cup final won in 2007 in Athens against Liverpool.
08:29 But in different times between them, they played with Milan and Monza,
08:32 also with Buriani, we remembered him before in Modena in 1977,
08:37 and Tosetto, also Michele De Nadai,
08:39 not to mention the top of the top, Daniele Massaro.
08:43 So, goalkeepers, young people arrived in Milan,
08:46 like Francesco Antonioli and Davide Pinato,
08:48 until arriving in even more recent times to Kevin Prince Boateng and Mario Balotelli.
08:52 What stories, also those of the bench, with Christian Brocchi and Giovanni Stroppa,
08:57 who won the cup and the trophies in Rossonero,
08:59 and then trained the Brianzola team.
09:01 But at the beginning of the year of Grazia 2024,
09:04 there is also a present, very young, very fascinating.
09:07 In Monza 2023-24, one of the top strikers is him, Lorenzo Colombo,
09:13 the young Rossonero who, on a European night,
09:16 replaced Ibra at the start with the Covid,
09:18 and who, with his goal, allowed Milan to overcome a European League round
09:22 against the Norwegian hosts of Bordeaux and Glimt.
09:26 In Monza 2023-24, the present is also and above all Daniel Maldini,
09:31 Paolo's son, who brought together, with the same colours,
09:35 from the same part of the barricade, the Maldini, the Berlusconi and the Gagliani.
09:39 The family of the boss Silvio, owner of the club,
09:42 Paolo Berlusconi, president, Adriano Gagliani, head of the company and soul of the company.
09:46 Daniel Maldini, approved in the team trained by Raffaele Palladino,
09:50 in the heart of the January market of 2024.
09:53 A window of contact and negotiations, the winter one,
09:56 which also concerned Lorenzo Colombo,
09:58 young striker who is followed with great interest by multi club of Serie A.
10:03 A "lollo" boy who was able to grow up in the spring of Milan,
10:07 even in the comeback, compared to painful and harmful events such as injuries.
10:11 Events of field and life that his former coach Federico Giunti has not forgotten.
10:17 I was lucky enough to train Lorenzo for two seasons, in 2018-19 and 2019-2020,
10:25 when he was still 17 years old and was already facing opponents 4 years older than him.
10:33 From the outset, the result was to be one of the most interesting profiles of that period for the youth sector.
10:39 At the end of the season, in 2019-2020, the next one,
10:47 he was placed in the first team of Stefano Pioli,
10:51 where he played in the top league and in the preliminary of the Europa League,
10:57 he scored the first goal with the red and black jersey.
11:03 Lorenzo is a boy who is always welcome by everyone,
11:09 for his positive and smiling attitude.
11:13 I can say that he was a young boy compared to the boys of his age,
11:19 I think primarily under the profile of personality,
11:23 but also in the approach to work.
11:29 I think that in these years he has grown a lot,
11:33 he has shown to have undoubted qualities, both technical and physical,
11:39 and to be an attacker who plays a modern role.
11:43 On the one hand, I saw a constant growth,
11:47 being a forward who for his team manages to link both the game with the back of the goal,
11:54 and the attack of the spaces and the depth when it is required.
12:00 If I have to give a piece of advice to Lorenzo,
12:04 I think there is no need, he knows very well that he has to continue to work to improve the realization phase,
12:11 because for an attacker it is absolutely a priority.
12:15 I hope he does it, because then he will probably have the doors open
12:21 to join the first team of Milan and show his worth with the red and black jersey.
12:27 Lorenzo Colombo was 8 years old when he joined the youth teams of Milan.
12:32 Very young teams, things of the first kicks, of the little balls at the highest level.
12:38 It was 2010, but 7 years later, Colombo was called up by the Italian national team, U15.
12:44 As they say in football jargon, he ate bread and red and black values,
12:49 uninterruptedly for 11 years, until 2021 when he started to go on loan to Cremonese.
12:55 Before the Monza-Milan return in February 2024,
12:58 Lorenzo Colombo's score tells of 9 goals in Serie A, 6 in Serie B and 1 in Europa League.
13:04 At 22 years old he has not yet completed a service that still has room,
13:08 after so much has been invested by the coaches of the red and black camp,
13:13 football men who for the age of the boys who train are certainly technicians,
13:18 but also and above all instructors and life teachers, like Roberto Bertuzzo,
13:23 a multi-titled flag of the young red and black benches.
13:27 He, Bertuzzo, his Lollo Colombo, remembers it well, step by step.
13:31 I had Lorenzo for two consecutive years, the year of the graduates and the first year of the very young.
13:40 So in the age group that anticipates a little bit the agonistic activity.
13:47 Already in those age groups he had left in the foresight of general qualities of high level,
13:58 an important physical performance, as has been evidenced over the years,
14:04 combined with good technical qualities, especially for the role he plays.
14:10 He is an attacker who has a good shot on goal, powerful, precise,
14:14 especially with the dominant foot that is the little hand.
14:18 He is very good at aerial play, he knows how to move behind the line of the opponents
14:26 and he is also good at giving continuity to the action.
14:30 I also think he has great opportunities for improvement, especially in certain situations,
14:36 which can then lead him to become an even more important player than he is now.
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