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00:00 Milan v Portieri, a relationship to be framed, a relationship to be studied, even if it is an inversely proportional relationship to the DNA and to the history of the Red-Black.
00:11 Milan is notorious, it is a family on the annuals and on the manuals, it has always been the team of play, of the offensive proposal, of innovation.
00:20 With its philosophies and its coaches, with its visions and its bearing, Milan has always introduced news, historically, in the way of playing football.
00:29 A bit in all eras. One of its gurus was Gipo Viani, the inventor of an absolute novelty in the second half of the 1940s, the Vianema.
00:39 A game technique that consisted in lining up the middle with the number 9, therefore as a fake forward center,
00:46 so that as soon as the game began it was used in the marking of the opposing attacker, referring to attack and defense, covering the role of middle.
00:54 While the central defender, disconnected from the task of marking, passed to cover the role of free, with the task of intervening wherever the action of attacking the opponent developed.
01:05 Innovative was also the same Parón Rocco. The so-called "chainsaw", passed to history as the system of the tight and organized defense and a systematic counterattack,
01:15 in reality it was a team with which Nereo Rocco played, with many attackers. Milan was then visionary and spartan, until Arrigo Sacchi, until the whole era of Silvio Berlusconi,
01:26 in which playing well was as important as winning, for a team for which, without disrespecting anyone, winning was never and has never been the only thing that mattered.
01:38 In all this flow of history, it goes without saying that the goalkeeper sometimes ended up being a "pillow", not the "pin", an element, not a foundation.
01:48 In short, the point is that Milan, by vocation, by history, by nature, thinks about playing and attacking, playing, building.
01:57 It goes without saying that the goalkeeper is historically a bit sacrificed. The goalkeeper is made a recourse when there is no way to do without it. This is a bit like Milan.
02:06 The goalkeeper is a player of the team, not a "ballard" of the team. In the same concept of Arrigo Sacchi's game, the game was played well, as much as possible, he managed to do without the goalkeeper.
02:18 Even if, as we know, the number 1 remains the milestone of a formation, the base of the 11, the first name of the "stripe" as Lorenzo Buffon.
02:28 In the 1950s, he was the first Rossoneri goalkeeper to score more than 300 goals in official matches, a goal that would have been scored years later by Sebastiano Rossi.
02:38 Lorenzo Buffon was the goalkeeper of the "Grenoli", in a time when Milan won four Scudetti in a few years.
02:46 And even if the Pompierone Nordal, the Reuccio Gren and the Baron Lidholm are often remembered, the goalkeeper was him.
02:54 Lorenzo Buffon, a real epic, his conclusion with the move to Genoa in 1959, the same year in which the period signed and marked "Giorgio Ghezi" begins.
03:06 How many times have we heard it? Ghezi, David, Trebbi.
03:10 It was the initial part of the formation of the final of the first Champions League won by an Italian football team in Wembley in 1963.
03:19 A witness that Giorgio Ghezi, the goalkeeper of Cesenatico, the kamikaze, would have then passed on to the "Black Spider", the nickname coined by Fabio Cudicini in the semifinal of the 1969 Champions League at Old Trafford, on the field of Manchester United.
03:35 It would have been important also to William Vecchi, the goalkeeper of the 1973 Italian Cup and the Cup of the Cups. Richi Albertosi, yes, he is the real protagonist of the Milan Scudetto in the 1978-79 season.
03:49 The saves of Albertosi were fundamental, spectacular, providential.
03:53 The story of the "Portieri Rossoneri", a very important story, although not always on the front page, although not totally on the front page.
04:01 A story that Marco Sportiello, who was a fan of Milan and a goalkeeper, knows well.
04:07 I am a Milanista since birth, as I said from the first day.
04:11 I met Sebastiano Rossi, then Abbiati, then mine became a job.
04:20 It is normal that you lose the fan, I am honest, you lose the fan and you think a little more about your job.
04:31 It is a great pride to be here for me, it is a dream.
04:35 Sometimes when I start training I look at the shirt and I say, "No, but I went to the stadium and I was cheering for this team and now I'm playing there."
04:46 It's absurd, so I want to keep it as close as possible.
04:51 I remember that when I was a child I was given this shirt with all the players on it.
04:56 There was also Lorenzo Buffon and I remember that I looked at all the players and all the goalkeepers.
05:03 There was also the Dida period, the Champions League.
05:07 I also like to remember those seconds, like Kalac when he played, I remember he did very well.
05:17 Also Storari, so the goalkeeper looks at everything, not just the starting line-up.
05:24 I also like to look at Melia, the same Melia.
05:27 There have been many strong goalkeepers, so I have to be at that level and I hope to get there.
05:37 Sebastiano Rossi approached Milan in a historic moment, crossing the goalkeepers' way.
05:42 At the end of the last Champions League game, Milan won 1-0 against Prater in Vienna, the final won by the Rossoneri.
05:49 At the triple whistle of the referee, Giovanni Galli was leaning on the post, on the post of his door.
05:54 He was crying like a child, he knew what he was leaving behind, he didn't know what he would find.
05:59 Bye Giovanni.
06:00 The hero of the immortals, at a time when there was also the consolidation of Andrea Pazzagli.
06:05 And then there was Seba.
06:06 Tall, strong, physically strong, Sebastiano Rossi was the protagonist of a Cesena victory over Milan in January 1989.
06:14 The goal of the Swedish Hans Ollonqvist, a defeat that passed the annals of the powerful Rossoneri history of those years.
06:21 An unfortunate defeat for Milan, many chances but Seba had paid everything.
06:26 Arrigo Sacchi knew him, grit, character, bravado, total absence of fear in any mix.
06:32 The chest out like an identity card, this was Sebastiano Rossi.
06:36 A goalkeeper who combines the baptism of fire with a hellish night, that of Marseille.
06:41 He was among the poles of Milan in March 1991, when the Rossoneri were eliminated from the Champions League at the Vélodrome
06:48 and then went to meet a one-year suspension from the European Cups.
06:52 But Seba Rossi remained in his place even when, among the poles of the Porta Rossonera,
06:56 the renewal was completed in the summer of 1991, with the new names, very young, of Francesco Antonioni and Davide Pinato.
07:05 Three goalkeepers, wide roses and the innovative load of Silvio Berlusconi's Milan.
07:10 With Fabio Capello there was a lot of fuss in the early days, but the first important opportunity.
07:15 Sebastiano Rossi definitely takes the place of Francesco Antonioni and becomes the Milan's most important player for years.
07:22 Seasons in which he was able to carry the weight of responsibility on his shoulders,
07:26 he was able to face open-minded attacks from the bombers all over Europe.
07:30 What a night that of the Weserstadion!
07:32 The Bremen stadium, balls were coming from all sides, it was windy, it was cold, but his wrists never trembled.
07:38 The qualification of Milan was in the process, but Sebastiano Rossi paid everything, they scored only on penalty kicks for the Germans of Bremen.
07:44 Milan drew against Dejan Savicevic and the team went not only to the Champions League, but to the game of the century won in Athens.
07:52 4-0 against Barcelona, a story that for Marco Sportiello is also fascinating,
07:57 because he, of Seba, is not only one of the many successors, he was above all a great and convinced fan.
08:03 I remember his ability to parry penalty kicks, he had this important physique,
08:14 I remember his long shots with his hands, he came to three quarters of the pitch, he even had a rebound,
08:21 I remember he had made a rebound and scored a goal.
08:25 I was still a kid, I was 6-7 years old, so I couldn't get into the specifics, but I remember his characteristics.
08:34 The wheel of the goalkeepers turns, Guantoni and Kamikaze always in motion,
08:38 the era of the Milanese lined up on the poles faces various crossroads,
08:41 not only Giovanni Galli, Andrea Pazzagli and Seba Rossi, but also the same Seba Rossi and then Jens Lehmann, Christian Abbiati and Nelson Dida.
08:49 During the season 1998-99, that of the 16th Scudetto with Alberto Zaccheroni in the dugout,
08:54 the goalkeepers are even four, because in January, instead of Lehmann, Giorgio Frezzolini arrives and there is a fifth on the ramp.
09:02 The three goalkeepers are German Lehmann, the first, veteran Sebastiano Rossi, the second, the young one to grow, Christian Abbiati, the third.
09:10 But here is the Perugia factor, the hole-hole, the elements that do not wait for you.
09:13 The two games with Perugia in the 1998-99 season change the history of Milan, the history of Seba Rossi and the history of Christian Abbiati.
09:23 In the first leg, in San Siro, Milan is winning the game quite easily, but after a goal from Perugia in the final, which will not change the result,
09:31 Seba Rossi grabs Christian Bucchi by the neck, he is expelled. Five days of disqualification. It's Christian Abbiati's turn.
09:39 A very tough game is played in Bologna, Milan wins 3-2 in the last seconds, but at the end of the game, Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Costacurta say,
09:47 "Yes, Abbiati is fine. He was useful, he was good, he can play." And Abbiati plays, until the real and final Scudetto.
09:55 It was the game with Perugia on May 23, 1999 at the Renato Curi Stadium in the Umbro capital.
10:01 Still par on Bucchi, he entered history. Christian Abbiati. Bucchi, the same striker in the middle of the case of Seba's expulsion, a common denominator.
10:11 Like the penalty for Nelson Dida, the Brazilian pars them all in the 2000 Club World Cup final, which triumphed his Corinthians against the rivals of Vasco da Gama.
10:20 As it would have happened by paring penalties. Three and a half years later, in Manchester against Juventus. But it's Abbiati, the man in the middle of Marco Sportiello's focus.
10:29 Abbiati, I immediately think of the Scudetto in Perugia in 1999. The save on the shot at the fly, Cibucchi.
10:39 That's a save that you remember. I think that any Milan fan has remembered.
10:49 And then also the Scudetto of 2010, if I'm not mistaken. And then also the save he made on the shot in the Champions League semifinals.
11:01 To show the importance he had, even if he was Dida's second.
11:08 That year, however, he scored a penalty, a bit like Tataruzano when he parried the penalty at Lautaro. It was decisive to have won the trophies.
11:20 Another turn of goalkeepers changes the trajectory of the history of the Red-Black among the peers.
11:25 He changes the common denominators of the Milan player with the number one jersey, that of the goalkeeper.
11:30 The first goalkeeper of the 2015-16 season is Diego Lopez. The second is Cristian Abbiati. Now he is the veteran.
11:37 While the third is the one who was Abbiati in 1998. 18 years later, the third goalkeeper has another name and another surname, but he is still a young man to make grow.
11:46 Gianluigi Donnarumma. Infinitely younger than Abbiati in 1998. And probably with another talent.
11:53 And like Seba Rossi, with an expulsion, paved the way for Abbiati, Cristian did the same thing to Donnarumma, even if without being expelled.
12:03 He just had to say his own. After the first days of the season and after some not brilliant results and some externalities on the field,
12:10 in terms of how to play the ball from his goalkeeper in the starting line-up, Sinisa Mihailović entered into a crisis with Diego Lopez, until he put him into discussion.
12:20 It was about changing the starting goalkeeper. And Mihailović's first look was on Cristian Abbiati.
12:26 But Abbiati, as he is affectionately called by all the Rossoneri fans, stops on the field with his coach at Minanello.
12:35 "Mister, I'm here, I'm ready. But there's Gigio. Gigio is very good, in my opinion, he can touch, he can do it."
12:42 And so begins the story of Gigio Donnarumma, as Marco Sportiello sympathetically remembers, tells and treats.
12:48 "Gigio was born strong, so at 16, when Mihailović launched him, I remember, he played Diego Lopez, I think, at the beginning.
12:58 Diego Lopez was also a great goalkeeper, but you could already see that he was in another category.
13:06 So, I don't think he had to work more than a lot, let's say we have a completely different story, but he is certainly a great goalkeeper, a great goalkeeper.
13:18 I think he is one of the best in the world."
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