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Milan: best club ever. AC Milan is organized in a way you can’t believe. Anything is done for you: you arrive, you get your house, it’s fully furnished, you get five cars to choose from, you know the sky’s the limit. They really say: we’ll take care of everything else; you make sure you play really well. Whereas unfortunately in a lot of clubs, you have to get after it yourself. . . . Sometimes you get to a club, and you’ve got people actually at the club who take profit from players.

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David said:

Been reading Soccernomics lately albeit at a very slow pace. This quote is from Boudewijn Zenden:

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Early on, AC Milan’s in-house medical outfit found that just by studying a player’s jump, it could predict with 70 percent accuracy whether he would get injured. It then collected millions of data on each of the team’s players on computers, and in the process stumbled upon the secret of eternal youth. (It’s still a secret: no other club has a Milan Lab, and the lab won’t divulge its findings, which is why players at other clubs are generally finished by their early thirties.)Most of Milan’s starting eleven who beat Liverpool in the Champions League final of 2007 were thirty-one or older: Paolo Maldini,
the captain, was thirty-eight, and Filippo Inzaghi, scorer of both of
Milan’s goals, was thirty-three. In large part, that trophy was won by
the Milan Lab and its database.

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In 1983 AC Milan spotted a talented young black forward playing for
Watford. The word is that the player Milan liked was John Barnes, and
that it then confused him with his fellow black teammate Luther Blissett.
Whatever the truth, the Italians ended up paying Watford a “transfer
fee” of $1.4 million for Blissett.
As a player Blissett became such a joke in Italy that the name
“Luther Blissett” is now used as a pseudonym by groups of Italian anarchist
writers. He spent one unhappy year in Milan, before the club sold
him back to Watford for just over half the sum it had paid for him. At
least that year gave soccer one of its best quotes: “No matter how much
money you have here,” Blissett lamented, “you can’t seem to get Rice
Krispies.” More on Rice Krispies later.

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David said:

Been reading Soccernomics lately albeit at a very slow pace. This quote is from Boudewijn Zenden:

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In 1983 AC Milan spotted a talented young black forward playing for
Watford. The word is that the player Milan liked was John Barnes, and
that it then confused him with his fellow black teammate Luther Blissett.
Whatever the truth, the Italians ended up paying Watford a “transfer
fee” of $1.4 million for Blissett.
As a player Blissett became such a joke in Italy that the name
“Luther Blissett” is now used as a pseudonym by groups of Italian anarchist
writers. He spent one unhappy year in Milan, before the club sold
him back to Watford for just over half the sum it had paid for him. At
least that year gave soccer one of its best quotes: “No matter how much
money you have here,” Blissett lamented, “you can’t seem to get Rice
Krispies.” More on Rice Krispies later.

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June 17, 1995. A few dozen participating to the Roman Radio Blissett boarded a night tram at different consecutive stops. A rave party took place on the vehicle until the police decided to stop it. Requested to disembark and identify themselves, the ravers refused to identify themselves other than with the multiple-use name. A riot ensued in which the police fired three shots in the air. A journalist from Radio Citta' Futura covered the event with his cell phone broadcasting the riot and the shots on the radio program. The radio program caused a media sensation.

June 1995. Loota is a female chimpanzee whose paintings are to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Arts. In the context of the hoax, Loota is described as a former victim of sadistic experiments in a pharmaceutical lab. The monkey was then saved by the Animal Liberation Front, and later became a talented artist. Some newspapers announced the event. Unfortunately, Loota did not exist.

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Christian said:

Nice quote. Treating the players well has clearly become a policy for Galliani and it pays off.

But don't mind me asking, what does Zenden have to do with Milan?

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Sven said:

I once had a lecture with a sociologist researching on the subject of Luther Blissett (I mean the anarchist writers and groups promoting stunts and media hoaxes under his name, not the player of course). I think I got a book on the subject somewhere also.

Very interesting stuff.


Edit: There's a good article on wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_(nom_de_plume)



Those two are the exactly one's I remember.

There was also an experimental album of eletronic music with his name:

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acmilanking said:

just finished wheres wally

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campsfield68 said:

which book would you guys recommend to learn italian ?

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pipa said:

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campsfield68 said:

what's this ?

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