Kaká: Divine Gift

According to Kaká, everything he has is a gift from God. At the age of 18, he fractured a vertebra in his spine, having hit his head on the bottom of a swimming pool after coming down a waterslide. It was feared that he would be paralyzed, and that his career would be over. Yet he was able to make a full recovery within weeks, a miracle he attributed to deity. Whatever you may or may not believe, anyone who had the opportunity to watch Kaká play for Milan knows that he was the divine gift.

Who is gifting whom?

Social Distancing from Football

For those of us who love football, this pandemic has taken the joy from our souls. Some might say that it is trivial to think about football when people are sick and dying, but the truth is that in order to deal with the harsh realities, we could all use some football right about now. The uncertainty in the world is compounded by the uncertainty of when and even if this season will ever be able to resume. And it is worse than the summer break, where at least there would have been the Euros and the distraction of a transfer window to give us hope.

After Istanbul, there is Athens, and after COVID-19, there will be football

Alessio Romagnoli: Apprentice Captain

In 2015, with Mihajlovic as Milan’s manager, he fought hard to bring Romagnoli to the club. While there were so many surprisingly beloved things about Mihajlovic, him giving Gigio Donnaruma his first team start at the age of 16 and also bringing Romagnoli to Milan at the age of 20 are two of the most impactful things that any coach has done for the club in years. Romagnoli came in and fought hard, and less than five years later, he is a great defender and the undisputable captain of this team, even if he was originally more of an apprentice captain.

The young captain

Andriy Shevchenko: The Legacy of Sheva

Every once in a while, a player comes to Milan and etches his memory on our hearts, as well as the scoring records. For many who saw him play, Andriy Shevchenko was one of those players. His second chance at Milan left so much to be desired, yet he was such an incredible player, that not even his second chance was not enough to mar his memory. His legacy extends well beyond goals and stats and trophies, he is Milan nel cuore.

To Milan fans, he will always be just "Sheva"

Simon Kjaer: Six Degrees of Serie A

Simon Kjaer’s entire career has been a long road to AC Milan. The Danish national team captain is no stranger to Serie A, and that path was always six degrees of separation from his current destination as a Rossonero... or at least six clubs of separation. See if you can follow our center back’s path up until now…

The road less travelled

Serie A Titles in Times of Tragedy

With the season suspended in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the logical football conversation would be to talk about the title for this season. Will it be assigned? Or will it be left unassigned? If so, should it just be assigned to the current leader as the season was halted, even if not every team played the same number of matches? Can the season be played out? Or should there be a playoff to determine the Scudetto, should calcio be able to resume before summer?

One of the most competitive seasons in a while, would be a shame not to see how it ends

Virtue in the Face of the Virus

As the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak saw teams, the league, the FIGC, and basically all of Italy fighting about schedules and favoritism, it became clear once again why Serie A had gone from the best league in the world in the 1990’s to the league of corruption, drama, and incompetence ever since. But as the death toll rose and government decrees of playing behind closed doors or even suspending the league happened, the reality set in and the bickering quieted down to an ominous silence.

Silent stadiums call for active benevolence

Milan 1, Genoa 2: Just Cause

After the Evil Lord Gazidis fired Boban the day before a game, as well as all of the concerns about people with the coronavirus and having this and another match postponed, I think some of us were looking forward to just watching some football. Even if we knew it would be strange playing behind closed doors, we just needed something to distract us from what feels like our football world being torn apart. But in the end, the result was also disappointing, even if the team had just cause.

Just because

Milan-Genoa Preview 2: Somber Football

It feels like I just wrote a preview for Milan-Genoa. Probably because I actually did, just a week ago. While the players have been itching to play, teams and authorities have been fighting over how to handle the scheduling of games, and fans have just ached for some football to distract them from the whole scenario, the brutal truth is that all of this is happening because people are sick and dying. So with all matches between now and April 3rd ordered to be played behind closed doors, tomorrow’s match will be some somber football.

Scenes at San Siro last week

Not Just Another Year Zero

Milan fans know the drill by now: the new people come in, you get your hopes up, maybe Milan even make a decent showing or come within a point of Champions League. Then Berlusconi fires Seedorf, Pippo, or even Mihajlovic with six games left. Or Berlusconi sells the club to some charlatan. Or that charlatan defaults on his loan to a vulture fund, and suddenly we are left in the hands of said vulture fund. Sporting Director comes in, buys new players to either love or hate, then leaves. Milan fans mourn, become even more angry and entitled, rinse and repeat.

Morals don't exist in this ownership, so neither does Milan

Coppa Italia Semifinal • Juventus-Milan Preview: Fans (Not) Included…

THIS MATCH POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK

The coronavirus outbreak is a serious health problem. But the Lega Serie A have some serious mental health problems. Obviously, weighing out the consequences of a public health crisis, the financial impacts for the league and clubs, scheduling, and last and clearly the very least, the safety of players and staff members of the clubs, can cause a psychotic episode. It is the only reasonable explanation besides Juventus controlling the League’s actions for their own benefit. That can obviously not be the issue here at all (no extra charge for the sarcasm.) So, amidst the League’s clear mental breakdown of the past couple of weeks, as of this writing, it is actually still unclear as to whether or not fans will be allowed to attend this match, or if only fans of the region where Juventus plays, or no fans at all, or what. Because… well… I’ve got nothing, this is ridiculous.

At least Ronaldo's hair is no longer the most ridiculous thing about this match

Sacrilege

As if things weren’t bad enough with the Lega Serie A changing the rules every day because of the coronavirus outbreak and changing them specifically to benefit one team (cough*Juve*cough,) Milan appear to be imploding at the management level… again. The rumors are uglier than ever, with the possible exit of Maldini and Boban from the club this summer being the ultimate form of sacrilege.

All good things come from the legends