Maldini reflects on the new Stadium and returning to Milan
Paolo Maldini believes Milan and Inter need to move to a new stadium if they desire to return to the top levels of European football.
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Milanare set to move to a new stadium, named Cathedral, and leaving San Siro in the near future.
Milan technical director Paolo Maldini believes leaving the historic stadium is a step forward for the Milanese clubs in their way to the top levels of European football.
“I believe and hope that it may be so. It makes an impression, I realize that. Me too. My father played there, I played there, my son plays there. It’s been my home. If we’re talking about memories, who more than me could feel hurt by such a momentous change?”
Maldini said.
“If we want Milan and Inter to return to the top levels of European football, writing such beautiful pages as those of the San Siro, we can only have a new stadium. There are no alternatives. This is not an opinion, it’s a certainty. I don’t want to erase a wonderful past. It’s just that I like to look ahead. It’s the idea of my life.”
Reflecting on his return to Milan as the technical director, the Rossoneri legend said:
“At the beginning, every night I came home and told my wife that it was a disaster. I kept saying to Leonardo, who wanted me to join him, that I felt useless. I didn’t understand the administrative side of the job, I wondered what I was doing there. I must feel like a protagonist.”
The 53-year-old also talked about goalkeeper
Gianluigi Donnarumma, who joined
PSGafter his contract with the Italian side expired in the summer.
“Gigio is a great person, full of emotions. I believe that in an ideal world the only real motivation of a footballer should be passion. But if your goal is to obtain social redemption and money to give to your family, who tightened their belts for you in your childhood years, well, those are also motivations.
“To be understood and respected. To achieve certain results and a certain stature as a player, sporting motivations are fundamental. It can happen that the needs of a player do not match those of a club. There are those who can wait, and those who are in a hurry. It’s not for me to judge certain choices.”
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