Chapter 2 United Milan

"In a recent shocking news, the president of the United Group, Italy's most money-savvy man, Ziano Jr., has reached an agreement with Milan Football and Cricket Club Infinity that he will buy the club...... Even more striking news is that the President of the Italian Olympic Committee, Lando Ferretti (Fascist Dignitus), who is about to be appointed as the new President of the Italian Football Federation, has presented a proposal - the Viareggio Agreement, which proposes for the first time that footballers will no longer be considered amateurs, they will sign work contracts with clubs and fulfill their professional duties, and at the same time the policy towards foreign players will be relaxed - a very incredible situation! Of course, it is still up to the debate whether each team can have two or three foreign players...... We may soon have a new league – the Pro League! ”

On January 28, the newspaper "Milan Sport" published a message from a special correspondent, which shook the Italian football circle.

At this time, although the Italian football league has begun to take shape, it is still an amateur in nature, and each player actually has his own serious job, nothing more than because they play, the company will give them more relaxed and convenient conditions; In terms of management, the current league system is ridiculously shabby compared to the Contini era. Teams with foreign players form a separate league, local players are another league, and then the league is not a national rollout, round-robin matching, but a division system, the country is divided into 4-6 divisions, and the first place in the division is finally concentrated to compete for the national championship.

The fact that it is purely dependent on local players or can use foreign players is also an important reason for the split of the Milan team, which is also based in Milan.

Ps: Fans who don't understand history are easily confused, Milan City does have 2 teams, one Milan team (Milan) and one international team (Inter), but there is only one team called Milan, not one AC Milan, one Inter Milan, if the international team can be called Inter Milan, then the two teams in Rome City should be called AS Rome and Lazio Rome.

Observers generally do not understand this operation, and if it is about political influence, he should buy the Lazio team, the leader is said to prefer Lazio; If in terms of results, he should buy Genoa or the international team, these two teams are still very good at the moment, how can they be in Milan? If it's about feelings, he should buy Livorno, which is his hometown team. How did you pick the Milan team? The Milan team is not doing well now, and the economy is also very difficult, and it is simply stormy......

The reason for this can only be mined from Contini's own interests: he was a fan of the Milan team before the crossing, so he chose the Milan team for investment, and as for Lazio, which the leader likes, he can't help - it's not that he can't afford to raise two teams, but if he raises two, the fairness of the game will be questioned.

However, Mussolini doesn't mind this, he really cares about the Italian national team, and he is naturally the happiest if someone is willing to invest money to play. If Contini is going to interfere with Lazio or Milan, he is doing too much – it's not a friendly attitude.

On the matter of the professional league, Contini gave Ferretti a lot of good advice, the main point is to build the Italian league into the best and most pleasing competition in Europe, so the introduction of foreign players is a must, which Contini is very open-minded. And he is much more ambitious, believing that each club can bring in three foreign players, but only two can play at the same time, and can be replaced once during the season due to injury or special reasons – but with the approval of the league organising committee. In the final analysis, it is necessary to improve the level of the league, and then to drive the level of Italian players - how can you improve by always playing behind closed doors?

In addition to this, he promised that the IBC would sponsor the new league for a period of not less than 2 million lira for the first year, increasing annually thereafter, and at the end of the season, as a bonus for each club, on the condition that the IBC would have the exclusive right to broadcast and report live on the radio. With this money, Ferretti has a stronger motivation to promote professionalism, and he is also looking forward to making a career, after all, there is a leader who loves to watch football, and it is easy to "improve" to make football better, so he respects Contini's advice and almost accepts it all - Contini is not as senior as him, but his status in the party is now higher than his......

Negotiations went smoothly for the United Group to take over the Milan team, and Contini paid only $200,000 to settle everything - in this era, the club was not worth anything at all, and in order to solve the problem of lack of funds, the Milan club adopted the method of collecting dues from members, 20 lira per year, and students could enjoy a 6% discount, only 12 lira. All members of the club are required to pay dues, and no one is exempt, and once the core player of the team, Moda (who was not only the absolute main player at the time, but also the captain of the field) forgot to pay the dues, and as a result, he was duly punished and banned from training. Even a mere 20 lira is so calculated, which is equivalent to 4 million lira, which is an out-and-out huge amount of money.

On February 1, Milan Football & Cricket Club changed its name to United Milan Football Club - cricket was spun off, and Contini became the president of the club, but for cricket, he was always a little lacking, so he simply let the business players entertain themselves, and he just invested $10,000 a year.

The club's staff, coaches and players unanimously welcomed the president's arrival: in addition to the $300,000, Contini not only made up all the arrears of salaries, but also said that from February 1, each salary will increase by 50% and there will be no arrears, and he is also ready to rebuild the club's training base near the United Group's Milan base - from large to small will have 16 football fields, in addition to opening a youth training base, adding professional staff such as sports, physiotherapy, medical care, etc. The club's fans are very happy to have a president with deep pockets, money is not everything, but no money is everything.

Now the membership fee of 20 lira has suddenly become 2 lira - the reason why it is not exempted is to preserve a formality, and the badges, commemorative brochures, and numbered certificates that you receive from the club after becoming a member are much more than the membership fee - all the result of joint printing. Originally, the club staff wanted to curry favor with the president and offered to use the opportunity of the new club reorganization to leave the No. 1 membership certificate to the president, but Contini refused.

"The new appearance of Union Milan does not mean that the history and glory of Milan over the past 20 years or so are gone, and this legacy will always need to be remembered, 1899 and not 1925 was the day when the club was founded...... When I come, send me whatever number you want, no need to be specialized! ”

Now there are two highlights in the football league at once: Agnelli Jr., who is in charge of Juventus, and Ziano Jr., who is in charge of United Milan, and the media and fans can't help but compare these two.

In the hearts of fans, little Ziano compared little Agnelli to little Agnelli in just two days after his debut: little Agnelli can only watch the game in the box in a suit, and he doesn't even know some rules very clearly, but little Ziano can change into a red and black team uniform to play in the cold winter, in the team training match, although his running awareness and handling of the ball are not as good as club members, but they are much better than ordinary fans, especially after he scored a goal with a beautiful fish jump before the end of the final half, all the fans applauded warmly- The new boss knows the ball!

Contini had always loved sports before the crossing, and was the main striker of the Paradox football team, and Hofman, who could only play Pro Evolution Soccer with the PS2 in his hands, was not available on the company's former bench list......

Contini, who couldn't keep up with his physical strength in the second half, didn't continue to play, but at the press conference at the end of the end, he put forward a point that made fans talk: "Of course, the result is important, but United Milan must first play well and play with momentum, and I resolutely don't want ugly 1:0ism!" In the short term, I will focus on the steady improvement of the club's strength, and I will not be angry because I can't get results or lose a few games, I'm only 22 years old, younger than most of the players, in other words, I'm still a youngster, and I have time. ”

The humorous remark immediately amused everyone and they thought it was a very good start, and the fact that the President bought Milan because of his love of football gave them more hope for the future of the club.

"As for foreign players, I will start bringing in them immediately and they will be able to appear next season – at least at the main level of the national team." Contini paused, "Considering that Milan, especially the United Group Milan base, there are currently many German employees, and they will also become fans of United Milan in the future, so the direction of our search for players is initially German, the German national team, the Austrian national team, and the Swiss national team will be the focus of consideration, which may be a little bit in conflict with the original philosophy of the club, but times are changing day by day, we have to keep pace with the times, who would have thought that playing football can also become a career?" ”

Everyone thought to themselves: the outside world is a little good, the boss likes the Germans very much, not only the workers choose the Germans, but now even the foreign aid likes the Germans, and only such people will stick a knife in the ribs for Adolf Hitler, right?

"Finally, there is good news to tell you, the club previously considered the construction of the San Siro Stadium project, I will continue to build, but the design plan will be adjusted, the scale of the stadium will be expanded, the number of seats will be expanded from the original 35,000 to 50,000, and the possibility of expanding to 70,000 in the future will be retained, the aesthetics and perfection will be further improved, the overall investment is about 25 million - 30 million lira, and more importantly, this stadium will be the exclusive stadium of the Milan club in the future!" "It will take two years to complete the pitch due to the need to revise and improve, and it will be the largest and most modern stadium in Italy, and I am sure that the results of United Milan will be worthy of this stadium!" Will be worthy of the United Group! ”

Everyone applauded!