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AC MILAN: HERE IT IS, IT'S THE R-DAY!

Friday, 11th July 2008: from the phone call Adriano Galliani-Ronaldinho Gauchi every day becomes a stage. Up to today, Tuesday 15th July. The nice day. The warm day. The exciting day.

/noticias.info/ MILAN - Two days of fears, tension and wait: but it's ok, it's even better. The decisive contact for Dinho to Milan is and will remain Friday 11th July, the rest are movement details. We are at around 7pm and they speak on the phone directly: Adriano Galliani from Via Turati and Rinaldinho from Porto Alegre. The important steps are taken by the player and with the addition of motivations and assurances which accompany them, massage well the heart of the director. After 8pm of the second Friday of July, Milan is warm. Very warm. President Berlusconi and Galliani on one side, the fans on the other: they want just him. They get excited just for him. How come? The first striker, the physical strength in the penalty area, the depth, the movement upfront? All true, all right, but Milan is Milan. In the past 22 years they won and re-won everything. In Italy, Europe and the wporld. For Milan, now, the real excitement is something else. The victory is always welcomed, but it is also important how it arrives, how it is manifestated. With the talent and technical moves it is not and it will not be, for this management at least, the same thing.

The last negotiations for the Milan trip to Barcelona are taken this Saturday morning. The second weekend of July becomes, at the Rossoneri's home, the long prologue of a dream. That which Milan wants to award and obtain. Milan Channel changes the programs for Saturday 12th July. Repetitions of the historic Milan-Barcelona from the 15th of March 2006 (the farewall of Demetrio Albertini to the football world) are show and also the Milan-Barcelona semi-final game of the Champions League from April 2006. Semi-official annoincements? Not at all. It was simply a show for the Rossoneri subscribers. Do you remember the months of May and June? Eight long weeks, sixty important days in which all the punters rebuffed the possible arrival to Milan of the Gaucho. He was ignored and overlooked by everyone, except from them: the Milan fans. They always dreamed about him and they always hoped. This was before Monday and Tuesday, where Galliani was in Barcelona: 48 hours of real and proper passion.

Yesterday morning, then, the departure towards Barcelona. Adriano Galliani is hopeful and optimistic. He knows that his steps represent millions of Milan fans: "If we manage, we shall remember this Monday as R-Day". And what an R-Day. There is no beauraucracy in this, it's a market operation. There is excitement for the way he knows how to play football. And there is especially love: for the football and for the Milanisti. With Ronaldinho on the pitch, Milan at Barcelona never won in the past years in the Champions League. And that Milan today made an achievement with him and for him it is more incredible. For Adriano Galliani it was one of those trips in late 80s style, when president Berlusconi loved to tell his very close collaborator: "Adriano, go and hit". So Galliani: the arrival in Catalogna, the meeting with Gauchi and then the day after the tough meeting with the Blaugrana managers at the Restaurant Via Veneto. And then the epilogue of the Camp Nou with the fundamental principle of agreement. Because Milan does not know how to live without dreams. And without the support of its fans. Long and rich like non others. The results say so, but especially the heart says so. Our heart, that of the Rossoneri. notas_de_prensa_archivo