Su e Giù dalla Torre
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00:00The Autostrada della Cisa crosses the low valley of the Taro, crosses the Lunigiana,
00:07passing the Tusco-Emiliano Apennine just at the foot of the Cisa.
00:12It starts near Parma and ends near La Spezia, precisely at Santo Stefano Magra,
00:19thus putting in direct communication the Padana plain to the north, with the Ligure river and the Versilia to the south.
00:27Here is Versilia, Tuscany, Viareggio, not only, Torre del Lago, San Giuliano Terme,
00:35the places that we have learned to know as those of the Viareggio Tournament,
00:39so dear to the Rossonera youth tradition.
00:42Still a few kilometers, not many, and here is Pisa, the history.
00:48The history of football, but not only football.
00:50The Tower of Pisa is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the iconic symbols of Italy.
00:57It is also known as the hanging tower.
01:00If the Cisa did not say very well to the Rossoneri colors at the beginning of the 2024-2025 season
01:07with the 2-1 of Parma and with the 1-0 of Virtus Entella on Milan Futuro in Chiavari, not far from La Spezia,
01:14there was a time when the history of Milan was also pending.
01:20A milestone like many, an important crossroads, was the baptism, either here or there.
01:27It was September 1987, the first day of the championship, Pisa-Milan.
01:33But beware, no, it was not a pre-championship like the one of the following year,
01:38that we would have spent between Wembley, Eindhoven and Bernabeu, no.
01:42It was a cautious pre-championship, of approach, of work, of laboratory almost.
01:48Useful matches, always in the respect of the opponent,
01:52to perfect the movements and mechanisms of Milan and only of Milan.
01:57The Milan that had Rigosacchi in mind.
02:00A corridor, a model, which had to become a heritage of the entire team.
02:05The Solbiatese, the Parma, here it is again, the Reggiana, the Cesena, the Lazio di Fascetti.
02:13These were the friendly opponents of Milan in the summer of 1987.
02:19Milan that had allowed itself only two foreign luxuries.
02:23Two friends in San Siro, to take advantage of the long wave of the show presentation
02:28of the first team at the Palatrussardi in Milan.
02:3238,000 spectators on August 12, 1987 for Milan Real Sociedad 2-1
02:39and 27,000 on August 18 for Milan Steaua Bucharest 0-0.
02:45Years in which, in August, there was really no one in Milan.
02:49Matches in which, paradoxically, it was not even important to score,
02:53but to move, to cover the field, to start the revolution.
02:58The last match before Pisa was Galaratese-Milan on September 10
03:03about schemes to digest and movements to chew and chew again.
03:08Then, the first league match away from his Parma that had launched him,
03:13ideally surpassing the Cisa and descending towards Tuscany,
03:17here is the match in which Arrigo Sacchi on September 13, 1987
03:23presents his first league Milan at the Arena Garibaldi.
03:29The Rossoneri against the Nerazzurri then.
03:31A classic, but it was Pisa, it will be said.
03:34Sure, but it is still a city dear to the historic Interista-Moratti family,
03:38always distant in summer in the nearby Forte dei Marmi.
03:43To dispel the atmosphere of the derby, the Rossoneri passion of the opposing president,
03:50the Rossoneri passion that in his heart has always been the Presidentissimo of the Pisani,
03:55the great Romeo Anconetani, came almost as a countermeasure.
03:58Among the opponents there were a couple of curiosities.
04:01For example, the one represented by the Venezuelan Riccardo Paciocco,
04:05the striker who belonged to another stratosphere Rossonera,
04:09since in 1983, four years earlier, in the difficult years that preceded the advent of Silvio Berlusconi,
04:17Paciocco had been tested in some games by Mr. Hilario Castaner,
04:21in a Milan of the first half of the 80s.
04:25Not only that, in Pisa also played the English national under-21 Paul Elliot,
04:32the same name of the property that many years later, in a very different era,
04:36would have happened to the historical one of Silvio Berlusconi.
04:41Meanwhile, the tower hung that afternoon between a Milan and the other.
04:45Immediately in goal, but reached the draw in the first half and not by chance,
04:49in Pisa it was already an aggressive but engulfed Milan,
04:52with a lot of potentiality but without leaps towards the opponent's goal.
04:57An imbidious game in the interval and Milan hanging like the tower of Pisa.
05:01But the climax of the second half would have been the right one.
05:05Milan, who puts the arrow and flies.
05:07Milan, who goes towards victory.
05:09Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten had already scored in the Coppa Italia
05:13before going out on the pitch in the league.
05:15They had scored against Bari and Como, against Monza and Parma,
05:19but those of Pisa were the first goals of the Dutch champions in Serie A.
05:23With two points on the board, with the first shots of Scalpello in the table,
05:26they were the goals of history, of the beginning of a great, great adventure.
05:33Pisa, Milan on the tower, but wins 3-1 and everything ends well.
05:37The Rossoneri would then have been thrown down from the tower,
05:40shortly after, immediately on the second day,
05:42after the defeat of San Siro against Fiorentina.
05:45But in the long run, right at the end of that season,
05:48they would have come back to the tower,
05:50as if they had come back to the tower.
05:54Pisa were also the controversy of the local fans
05:56against their coach Materazzi,
05:58speaking of homonyms,
06:00for the substitution in the second half of Carlos Dunga
06:03and, according to the critics,
06:05he was opposing the Milanese champions of Sacchi well,
06:08but who, according to the Pisan technician, was tired.
06:12But Pisa were also the Milan that, in the same game,
06:15had to do without Paolo Maldini,
06:17who was injured and did not play,
06:19and Franco Baresi, who, during the game,
06:21was replaced due to a knee distortion.
06:25It's never all easy in football,
06:27and it wasn't all easy,
06:29not even that sunny afternoon at the Arena Garibaldi,
06:32where, among the 27,000 spectators present,
06:35was witness to a historic first time.
06:39Today, photos of the dawn are taken
06:41to arouse emotions on social networks.
06:43That of 1987 in Pisa
06:45remains a football dawn,
06:48photographed by the sweet mental cortex of memories,
06:51of suggestions.
06:53A particular dawn,
06:55because it was the prelude,
06:57not of a glory that would come in a linear,
06:59straight, coherent, rock-breaking way, no.
07:02A glory is a story of joy and pain,
07:04of steps forward and steps back,
07:06of very high and unexpected lows.
07:10In perfect harmony with the joyous mystery
07:12and the painful mystery
07:14that, according to Silvio Berlusconi,
07:16were the two eternal faces of football.
07:19Pisa, at the end of the Cisa then,
07:21or maybe at the beginning if you come from the south,
07:23from the low Italy, as it was once called,
07:26and it was from the low that Rigosacchi wanted to leave.
07:30Without certainty, among so many criticisms,
07:33wrapped in a cloud of scepticism,
07:35his ideological climb
07:38that would have changed a football
07:40that did not want to know how to change.
07:42This is what happened in Pisa.
07:44A game that Rigosacchi had approached
07:47well aware of the climate
07:49all the more welcoming
07:50that surrounded his nascent creature.
07:52Also in light of the fact
07:54that notoriety was certainly not on his side.
07:58Before the game in Pisa,
08:00they asked Sacchi
08:01what he had to learn in Pisa
08:03and what he had to learn
08:04from all the other great coaches
08:06he would have met for the first time
08:08during his first Serie A championship.
08:10I have been in front of the coaches for so many years
08:12because I have always been the last one to arrive everywhere.
08:14So I will face it as I have faced in the past
08:17all the other coaches I have met.
08:22A filastrocca that we have heard more and more times.
08:25On September 13, 1987,
08:27on the first day of the Serie A championship,
08:30the Milan of Sacchi won 3-1
08:32against Pisa at the Arena Garibaldi.
08:34He was the first black-red coach
08:36for the coach of Fusignano,
08:37who at the beginning had no problem
08:39to instill his ideas in the group.
08:41That day the victory came
08:43thanks to the nets of Donadoni, Gullit and Van Basten
08:45for the Nerazzurri, net of Cecconi.
08:47In the end, the black-reds won the Scudetto
08:50with a comeback against Napoli
08:52in the last part of the season.
08:54Sacchi's team won
08:56with three points ahead of the Partenopei.
08:58How many times have they told us like this?
09:00The game against the genius.
09:02It was the collective against the baby,
09:04against the great Diego Armando Maradona.
09:07A parable started at the foot of the tower.
09:10Just as it was pending,
09:12between the promotion and the draft,
09:14the Milan of the Pisa-Milan interval.
09:16When that afternoon of mid-September
09:18the result, at the end of the first half,
09:20was still on 1-1.
09:21Paolo Maldini, as said,
09:22was not there because he was unlucky,
09:24but he was in the stands
09:25and followed, this is a curiosity,
09:27the game of the team from the stands
09:29with the same black-red jersey
09:30of his teammates on the pitch.
09:32To the journalists who,
09:33in the Pisa-Milan interval of 1987,
09:36seemed already perplexed,
09:37Paolo answered like this.
09:39I don't think it's a Milan
09:41so unbalanced forward
09:42because our team
09:43is a fairly short team,
09:44at least we have to try to play short,
09:46in this way we are more covered behind.