Today is a day of farewell. The sun starts to warm up at noon, and at night, the stars gather and the neon lights of San Siro decorate the place.

Today is a day of farewell. Rossoneri, the city of Milan, world football, will say goodbye to a great old boy.

On May 19, 2007, in the 37th round of the 2006-07 Serie A season, AC Milan hosted Udinese. It was Milan's last home game of the season, with the 41-year-old Alessandro Costacuta's last professional game.

His nickname is Baton, his nickname is Billy, and today is his farewell game, where he is bidding farewell to professional football after 23 years.

Today is a day of farewell. One of the most outstanding centre-backs in world football, a representative of Italian football defensive culture, the founder of the Milan dynasty, a living textbook of defensive awareness and defensive skills, and the founder of the Holy Knights of the Round Table in Milan, Costacuta is here today to bid farewell to the football field that he loved all his life.

Even Inter Milan, who have always been at odds with AC Milan, have not been a moth, and they have also praised the career of the baton, and the whole of Italy, all of Europe, and the whole world are praising him.

80,000 people filled the San Siro, the stands were filled with huge portraits of the number 5 in red and black, many of the biggest names in football were present, and Costacuta's old friends, buddies and even old rivals all came.

Old batons can't afford to treat a super-heavyweight UEFA Cup final as their farewell match as German superstar Bantam Hassler, who retired from Madiburg. If you can, the Champions League final in a few days will be a very monumental farewell performance. But he can't, and neither can AC Milan, because unlike Hasler, who was still quite capable until the end of his career, and Costacuta was no longer able to meet the normal requirements.

Hasler is only a month younger than Kostacuta, who was 39 years old when he retired two years ago, and is 41 years old this year.

In fact, five years ago, after the 01-02 season, Costacuta retired once, and there was even a farewell game like today. At that time, he was only 36 years old, and after retiring, he was not willing to be lonely and was ready to go to the major leagues to play health. However, in the final moments of the transfer window at the end of August, AC Milan felt that there was not enough thrust at the back and urgently called on Costacuta to put on his shirt again. So, loyal to Milan all his life, he returned without hesitation.

But this time goodbye, everyone knew that he would never come back.

In fact, Costacuta knew he was old twelve years ago, when he was only 29 years old. In that year's Toyota Cup, two fatal mistakes by batons allowed the invincible AC Milan to lose 2-0 to a mere Sarsfield. From that day on, everyone knew that he was old.

As it turned out, everyone was right, and after 1995 Costacuta never reached or even came close to his peak.

But it was such a classic car that was gradually declining, and it continued to play for the Rossoneri for another 12 years. It's not that he is in love, it's not that AC Milan can't pull his face, but because of his conscientiousness, Costacuta's professional attitude is unparalleled in the world.

In the past 12 years, Costacuta has been like a screw of the revolution, which is screwed wherever it is needed. Needless to say, the centre-back is his job, but the two wing-backs on the left and right are full of freshness. The baton relies on a lot of experience on the field, and he can fill any hole in the backline.

The centre-forward has not done it without a goal, although he has not been able to score. I've played a lot at the back, so I'm no stranger to it. The baton said: I am a brick in Milan, and I can move it wherever I need it.

Today, Costacuta started as a central midfielder. Speaking from the heart, it's not that he has much experience in playing in the back now, but he really doesn't dare to put him on the back line, and if he has to put it hard, it will essentially become an enemy behavior. Even if AC Milan no longer value the results of this game, they can't deliberately follow the pattern of losing.

Two days ago, AC Milan made a big decision: the first priority is to win the Champions League, and qualification for next season's Champions League is up to fate. That said, the league match against Udinese before the Champions League final was strategically abandoned by AC Milan.

This is not only the usual decisive temperament of the giant club, but also the helplessness of the reality.

With only two rounds left in the league and four points away from fourth Fiorentina, the Purple Lily will win a win and Milan will not help. Most of the main players are already very tired, and if they force themselves to pursue double-line gains, they may become more empty.

Maybe Milanello has a biased feng shui this year, and there are many strange things in the league, and AC Milan has encountered some inexplicable troubles this season. However, the Champions League has performed very well, including the qualifying round, 12 wins, 1 draw and one loss in 14 games, scoring 42 goals and conceding 9, such an attack has made European football scared all night.

Last week, the front page of the newspaper Sport Milano ran an article by Fabio Licari, a gold medal journalist and famous contributor, "If there is no Milan, Serie A is a joke". In addition to the highlight performance of AC Milan in Europe, the article also denounced the embarrassment of other strong teams.

Serie A champion Inter Milan lost to Valencia in football, and he never fought in a group fight; Rome put all Italians to shame on them with a miserable 1:7. Chievo didn't bother to mention it, they even dared to lose to the Bulgarian team in the qualifying round.

Only AC Milan has upheld the dignity of Serie A in Europe, and only AC Milan has dared to break the increasingly powerful Premier League's attempt to monopolize the Champions League.

Perhaps it was this article that gave the Milan hierarchy the determination to break their wrists, and after careful negotiations, the first thing to give up was this match against Udinese, even if it was a farewell match for Costacuta.

Almost all the players who could be an important player in the Champions League final were hidden, so Costacuta, who wore the captain's armband, led a group of minions to his own pitch.

The 22-year-old Argentine left-back Leandro Grimi made his first appearance for AC Milan, and although he belonged to the first team, he had been mixed in the second team until now, and Zhuo Yang didn't know there was such a teammate after a year.

Substitutes and substitutes for the bench, there is only one main player in the starting lineup, and he is No. 18 Zhuo Yang.

Since he gave up the league, Zhuo Yang was naturally not in the plan, but he forcibly persuaded Cong Braida to Ancelotti with a very resolute attitude. Of course, Zhuo Yang knows that next season's Champions League qualification is very slim, but he doesn't want to give up, he can't change the club's strategic direction, but he himself wants to give it a go.

was banned for two games because of the 'dating incident', and it was these two games with one defeat and one draw that made AC Milan lose their hope of qualifying for the Champions League. Zhuo Yang thinks that he is responsible, although no one talks about this in front of him, but he knows that he can't shirk it.

In his first Serie A season, the ban alone reached eight games, which is appalling as a striker. These eight bans, some of them are his fault, and some of them belong to bad luck, how to distinguish the responsibility Zhuo Yang is too lazy to think, but there is nothing to say about these two games.

Braida and Ancelotti were a little surprised by Zhuo Yang's stubbornness and seriousness, because he always played tricks with their hippie smiles this year, and seeing that Zhuo Yang's face was pulled down if he refused any longer, obviously with emotion, they had no choice but to agree to his request.

Of course, the most important reason is that the Milan laboratory has shown that Zhuo Yang is in good physical and functional condition, and unless there is an injury, it will have little impact on the Champions League final in five days' time. Therefore, there are also advantages to having more bans.

However, Kaka, who has played the most games this season in the main lineup, was not so lucky, and his request to participate was not approved.

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