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00:00September, some melancholy after the summer, but also new and renewed hopes for the future.
00:08September is the ninth month of the year, a number that often enters the highs and lows of Milan's history, the history of goals.
00:15A month that on the calendar marks a passage, a moment of transition between the end of the summer and the restart of professional activities, of study, of work, of commitment, of personal growth.
00:27September, let's go, it's time to emigrate, said the poet Avate, Gabriele D'Annunzio.
00:32September, let's go and that's it, say today's football fans.
00:35The matches, the goals, the points, come on, let's go.
00:38To the Americans Christian Polesic and Yunus Musa are certainly very familiar.
00:44September Morn, by Neil Diamond, but also September When I First Met You, by Barry White.
00:51And the same September by Heart, Wind and Fire and September Song by Lou Reed.
00:57But not even the Italian songs dedicated to the month of the first Milan derby of the season 2024-2025 are missing.
01:05Ah, September, you'll tell me, ah, September, I'll be back, I'm ready, it's my turn.
01:09While the day disappears, spring will come, it will be sweet and nervous, but I won't run away.
01:15Alberto Fortis sang it, who certainly did not refer to football and not even to the Milan derby,
01:20seen, moreover, that it is told as a Juventus fan, but the artistic inspiration remains,
01:25since both Interists and above all Milanists hope that it will finally be their turn.
01:30September, after the August equestrians, is the month in which football comes back to life.
01:35The heart beats again, the emotions return to stiffen the skin.
01:39Luca Carboni knew it too, who sang, not by chance,
01:42maybe it will be this area of September, like the goals I scored against a wooden door,
01:46with the knees peeled from the outside. Goal, like dying of thirst after a race in the summer.
01:52But the point, perhaps, is fully grasped by Gazelle, the Roman singer-songwriter,
01:56who in his September does not leave half measure,
01:59exactly as it happens during and after a derby, between Rozzoneri and Nerazzurri.
02:04According to Gazelle, in his verses, September 1 is a month of M to start again,
02:09but in the next verse, September itself becomes a perfect month to start again.
02:14It seems to cut more to Milan, but at the whistle of the beginning of every derby,
02:18the desires, the precedents and the hopes are zeroed, exactly like salvation.
02:26The derbies once arrived in October or November.
02:29There was time and place to put them in the mirror, to prepare, to cultivate the wait.
02:35Once the date was circled in red at the time of the compilation of the calendars,
02:39the approach was slower, marked by more caps.
02:43It was a highway road along the journey, the derby.
02:46Today, however, it is a derby ready to go.
02:48You don't wait, it comes to you and immediately presses your veins and wrists without any warning.
02:54Immediately, almost without being announced.
02:57Indeed, with a light announcement, very, very liophilized.
03:02A season's whisper and then immediately on the field for the derby,
03:05for the game of pride of belonging of the ones and the others.
03:09On both curves, for both the fans, the derby has meaning,
03:13means and will mean smiles and scars, dreams and nightmares, emotions and heart attacks.
03:21But every time the challenge is renewed, there is an exclamatory point to add.
03:26A new exclamatory point that enters history like all the others,
03:29heavy and pointed like all the others.
03:32There have also been derbies in August, in the recent history of Milan and Inter.
03:37Liquid calendars, flows of football, palettes of tradition that take a step back.
03:42And then also in September, the second month of the season,
03:46the ninth month of the solar year, the month of poets and songwriters.
03:51On the blue and black background, the derby of September recalls the Guarin stroke of 2015
03:56and the headbutt of Lukaku of 2019.
04:00In Casa Rossonera, on the other hand,
04:02the emotions of Ronaldinho's headbutt in 2008
04:06and the steering of Rafael Leao in 2022 flourish.
04:11The derby of September 28, 2008, for Milan meant a lot.
04:15It was a new duel between Ancelotti and Mourinho,
04:18with Rossonero prevailing over the rival five years earlier,
04:23when the Portuguese coach was training at the Porto and at Monte Carlo there was a draw,
04:27the European Super Cup.
04:291-0 Milan, Rui Costa's assist and Shevchenko's goal.
04:341-0 Milan, Rui Costa's assist and Shevchenko's goal.
04:39But that of September 2008 was above all the derby of the birthday of President Berlusconi.
04:44A minute after midnight between the 28th and 29th of September,
04:49a couple of hours after the final whistle of the derby,
04:52the candles on the cake of Milan's number one would be lit.
04:56And the birthday of Monday, after the victory in a derby,
05:00makes all the difference in the world,
05:02compared to the same recurrence after a defeat in the derby.
05:06It was the Milan-Inter of the fifth day,
05:09without half measures for the Rossoneri,
05:11two defeats in the first two days of the 2008-2009 Milan championship
05:14against Bologna and Genoa,
05:16and two victories against Lazio and Reggina in the next two games.
05:20Two losses and two wins, then the derby.
05:23Strengths and strikes in comparison.
05:25Milan's light cavalry against the heavy one of Inter.
05:29Ancelotti's grip against Mourinho's rationality.
05:32Ronaldinho Pato's ga-ga
05:35against Mancini, Ibrahimović, Quaresma.
05:38The technical Rossonero confirms everything,
05:41while the Nerazzurri changes in defence,
05:43Burdisso in place of Córdoba.
05:45In Milan, the star of the first days was Marco Borriello as a top scorer,
05:50but he was unlucky in the game played during the week,
05:53won well by Milan to Reggio Calabria.
05:56It seemed that instead of Marco Baleno,
05:58Andriy Shevchenko could play,
06:00but the legendary Ukrainian champion
06:02was not the one of the first years of the Rossoneri.
06:05He was the one who came back from Chelsea,
06:07the one with the number 76 shirt,
06:09the one who always deserved eternal respect and gratitude,
06:12but who struggled much more to make a difference,
06:15once he returned to Milan,
06:17after two years among the London Blues.
06:19That's why Carlo Ancelotti chose the Brazilian all-in,
06:24a decisive choice,
06:25Pato who widens the game,
06:26Kaká who sprints and crosses,
06:28Ronaldinho who puts the ball in net with a precise and powerful header,
06:32Digno who goes up in the sky,
06:34and Milan who closes the gap.
06:35Burdisso, already armed, makes a foul on Kaká and is expelled,
06:38leaving the Nerazzurri in ten.
06:40It is a victory for the Rossoneri with a lot of joy in the post-match,
06:43expressed above all by Adriano Gagliani
06:46against Ronaldinho, the author of the decisive goal.
06:49I hugged Ronaldinho as soon as he entered the dressing room
06:53and I told him that I was very happy for him,
06:55really, I'm happier for him than for Milan.
06:58He is a player that we have always loved,
07:01he knows it,
07:02and he came to Milan because he knows that here he was loved
07:05and he knows that he absolutely has to train
07:09because he has been out in Barca for many months,
07:12but he is an extraordinary and unattainable champion,
07:15we went to look for him.
07:17It was the most difficult deal I had in 23 years,
07:21and Roni knows it, his brother knows how hard it was for Barcelona.
07:24So he is the player we wanted with more intensity.
07:27Do you remember my famous sentences this summer?
07:31When he never arrived, I kept saying
07:33that the important thing is not how long you wait,
07:35but who waits.
07:36So Roni is in our hearts.
07:40The derby of September 3, 2022,
07:42was instead a sequel,
07:43a new episode,
07:45a whizzing tail of a derby that lasted a whole year.
07:49The first derby ever played
07:51after the Scudetto won by Milan on Inter.
07:54Giroud's double, in February 2022,
07:57had made every moment a derby,
08:01every day of the season.
08:03Derby for the top of the table,
08:05derby head-to-head,
08:06derby of slaps and mutual slaps.
08:09On September 3, 2022,
08:10Milan appeared on the pitch with the Scudetto on their chest,
08:13in front of the city rival,
08:14who had dreamed of it and had lost it,
08:16fighting until the last day of the championship.
08:19Before the game, of course,
08:20the respective choreographies,
08:22as for any derby to be respected.
08:24The red-and-black one was on the tears
08:26of the previous month of May, 2022.
08:29It was the biggest choreography
08:31ever arranged by the Curva Sud of Milan.
08:35Thinking about it and preparing it
08:36was the task of a group of boys and girls
08:39who, in their free time in secret,
08:41had met up many times to draw,
08:43to paint,
08:44to put together the huge canvases
08:46that would have offered,
08:47for a dozen minutes,
08:48the usual great pre-derby show.
08:55So well at the beginning,
08:56but so well also at the end,
08:58with the speakers that shoot
08:59piolis on fire at full volume,
09:01the coach of Milan in the middle of his boys,
09:03who dance,
09:04and his boys who party around him,
09:06with the Curva singing
09:07and the champions of Italy,
09:08it's us.
09:11The first derby of September, 2022,
09:14ended like this,
09:15and ended to condense, in 90 minutes,
09:17the entire previous season.
09:19That is,
09:20two teams that ran into each other,
09:22challenged each other,
09:23who tried to escape,
09:24who were deluded,
09:25they were caught,
09:26and they ran away again,
09:27with a happy end for the red-and-black.
09:29Because the first derby of the season,
09:31after the red-and-black scudetto
09:32of May, 2022,
09:33was exactly this,
09:35a centrifuge of goals,
09:37emotions and biorhythms
09:38passed from one side to the other of the pitch,
09:40as if there was an invisible hand
09:42to shift the balance.
09:44A 3-2 red-and-black,
09:45started by Brozovic and closed by Dzeko,
09:48but in the middle of the picture,
09:49always and only Milan,
09:50with the double of Rafael Leao
09:52and the new round of Olivier Giroud,
09:54with a lot of joy after the game.
09:58Clearly I am happy for the victory,
10:00because with a stadium like this,
10:02it's a show.
10:03Believe me,
10:04we really give ourselves
10:06and our fans give us
10:08an indescribable emotion,
10:10an indescribable energy,
10:12I think you can see it
10:14in our way of playing.
10:16I think that for 70 minutes,
10:18I liked the team a lot,
10:19because they played with courage,
10:20they played with determination,
10:21with maturity,
10:22with lucidity,
10:23they didn't force,
10:24when it was time to force,
10:25and they fought,
10:26they fought a lot,
10:27because we knew
10:28we had many duels to face,
10:31we did it with determination,
10:32we did it with courage,
10:33we did it with determination,
10:35so I can only be satisfied.
10:38Then, of course,
10:39I will tell the team
10:40that you should never relax,
10:41especially when you play
10:42against such strong opponents,
10:43we risked to play a game
10:45and we have to thank Mike
10:47for the saves he made,
10:48and it shouldn't have happened,
10:50so all games teach us something,
10:52and then from this game
10:54we take home
10:55another important lesson.