The MilanLab Thread

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how does 1 get on this council?

i don't know for sure, as its a shadowy organization similar to the freemasons, but i think you have to hate step over dribbles, no look passes, and generally be in favor of colonialism.
 

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I saw a documentary back in the day where Milan was described as the beauty and Gobbi as the beast. One of the points was how Gobbi training ground contained somewhat 200 banned substances or sth meanwhile Milan took a whole different approach. And that aired in Finnish National television. Don't think it was Berlumedia.
 

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Haha, yeah i know jube cant win shit without something illegal going on:D

I still consider them awsome since without their dumbass ways i probably would have never heard of this song:



:star:Jube(Moggi):star:
 

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Blog: The myth of Milan Lab

David Beckham’s injury is precisely what Milan Lab was created to prevent, notes Susy Campanale

If I were a Milan player right now, I’d be worried. The spate of serious injuries at the club hit its nadir in a week that ended Alessandro Nesta and David Beckham’s seasons. Alexandre Pato has played a couple of games this year due to a recurring muscular problem that he can’t seem to shake. All of this is what the much-vaunted Milan Lab was created in order to prevent.

“This structure allows us to optimise the performances of players thanks to our exclusive and innovative PAS (Predictive Analysis Server), a system that works to prevent and signal possible risks for a player.” The Milan Lab takes daily results of various physical tests and runs them through computer programmes to give a constantly up-to-date idea of fitness and stop a player from pushing himself too far if there is the risk of injury.

You’d think such an advanced system would notice that an Achilles tendon was about to snap. Not just tear, oh no, it broke completely. That is not an easy thing for a tendon to do. This is the same Milan Lab that failed to notice Ronaldo’s knee tendon would give way completely.

Even worse, Nesta revealed that the initial damage to his knee was done in the penultimate game he featured in. Yet Milan Lab cleared him to play again three days later and to visit Manchester before eventually wrecking it completely in training. Kaka had already highlighted problems with the Rossoneri’s fitness staff last season, as he made more progress in five days in Brazil than in several weeks at Milanello.

I wouldn’t mind so much, after all it’s no worse than the Juventus injury record, if it weren’t for the bragging about this state of the art technology. In the light of the latest embarrassing incidents, fans are bound to feel even more bemused by the Aly Cissokho saga. In the summer this valuable full-back’s signature was announced before Milan pulled out, citing problems with his teeth.

Maybe Milan Lab just needs to be tinkered with? In 2008 they announced a new partnership with Microsoft, so they might be waiting for new drivers to work with Windows 7? Or perhaps this has all been an elaborate ruse. Distracted by players running, jumping and doing squat thrusts, eventually the little piece of paper will pop out of the giant machinery telling us the meaning of life is 42. At least then Milan Lab would’ve been good for something.
 

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i don't know for sure, as its a shadowy organization similar to the freemasons, but i think you have to hate step over dribbles, no look passes, and generally be in favor of colonialism.
i think berlu is their supreme counceler cause ronaldinho took a dip in form before this year and he seemed to be on his way out of high club football but berlu somehow convinced the council to allow him to play well but just for milan.I think berlu throwed in a couple of virgins too as a bribe offer could be wrong thou as he does not seem so willing in sharing his greatest assets
 

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the supreme council of the 'anti-brazilian-sentiment-authority' purposely injured ronaldo to protect white-european players legacies.
Yeah :mad: don't forget there's also a conspiracy to keep black players injured the blacker your are the less treatment you'll get :cry:
Finally dear mods there appears to be a typo in the thread name. Please remove the 'r' from the last word. Thanks in advance :o
 

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David Beckham’s injury is precisely what Milan Lab was created to prevent, notes Susy Campanale
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How the fuck does goal.com writer suzy campanale know that? She a PhD? What i know is beckham has had this achilles (and ankle) problem for years now. He's played thru it, and taken many shots in his achilles like all athletes do. When you take painkillers via shot it can effect ur blood flow to region, which is usually 1 of causes of a muscular tear

http://www.fitsugar.com/How-Prevent-Achilles-Tendon-Injury-Like-David-Beckham-7766147

According to WebMD, "problems with the Achilles tendon may seem to happen suddenly, but usually they are the result of many tiny tears to the tendon that have happened over time."

He will be 35 in a little over a month. Think about how many years he's played so many minutes. Maybe the problem is Milan should not be signing 4billion players in there 30s or heck, even there late 20s with many minutes logged.

This has nothing to do with MilanLab, you joke of a journalist. It has everything to do with fact he's played forever, injuries are inevitable in all sports, but when ur older they r even more likely.
 

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How the fuck does goal.com writer suzy campanale know that? She a PhD?

I'm pretty sure she's just shooting from the hip but MilanLab has been pretty clear what they are about.
 

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i really can't see how medical facilities can prevent injuries happening, i can see how if they spot the problem before the injury. but when someone get's injured, like beckham. then i can't see how people blame the medical facilities.

It's not their fault, it's similar to blaming a club for a player breaking his leg.
 

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i really can't see how medical facilities can prevent injuries happening, i can see how if they spot the problem before the injury. but when someone get's injured, like beckham. then i can't see how people blame the medical facilities.

It's not their fault, it's similar to blaming a club for a player breaking his leg.

exactly. people have to blame something tho
 
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I admittedly do not know anything about Milan Lab. However, as an athlete, I know that injuries happen to everyone, and to some, they happen a lot.
 

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i really can't see how medical facilities can prevent injuries happening, i can see how if they spot the problem before the injury. but when someone get's injured, like beckham. then i can't see how people blame the medical facilities.

It's not their fault, it's similar to blaming a club for a player breaking his leg.

i think it's more to do with injury prevention, and assesing wether a player is fit to go back into the field (pato,ronaldo) more than anything. and players have definitely been getting injured more than in previous years, and not just the older ones.

but the staff has been changed for next season, i think milanlab will get back to it's best :)
 

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ok from now on we'll blame u

Expect an article soon...

Congo Powers - Responsible for Milans Injury Crysis?

By Suzy Campanale

In an intriguing developement in the recent controversy surrounding MilanLab the real source of Milan players injuries. Critics questioned the competence of MilanLab last season when a spate of injuries helped to disturb their run towards the scudetto with injuries to Nesta and Alexandre Pato. The source has been found to a forum poster known as Congo Powers. Powers, an infamous member of The Red and Black Forums. It has been revealed that Mr. Powers to be the source of injuries after both Pato and Nesta reported reading Mr. Powers post immediately prior to becoming injured. Nesta was quoted as saying "I was visiting the The Red and Black Forums as usual when I came across a post by Congo Powers. After reading it, I immediately began to feel weaker and in surprise I asked Alex to come have a look." This seems to indicate the same variable in both of the injuries. More on this story to follow.




.... This is what I do at school. :tongue:
 

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"The players certainly seem to like the results. "It is unique," believes Clarence Seedorf. "The philosophy here is that you are training to prevent injuries. When you are 30, some people think it is the end of your career, but there should be a change of mind because that is not based on facts. I'm getting fitter and better every year.""

This is Seedorf's argument to be in the starting line up.... "I'm getting fitter and better every year." because of MilanLab..... B&S hear this and love this....... Jean-Pierre Meersseman hears this and loves it even more....... Allergi hears this and becomes convinced and confident of Seedorf..... well let's make everybody happy.... let's play seedorf every game.... let MilanLab does the magic....

after one game:
seedorf plays beautifully........ everyone from B&G, Jean-Pierre Meersseman, and Allergi say see we've told you experienced seedorf is a non-transferrable, reborn, and indispensable player.

2nd game:
seedorf just walks around.. milan loses/draws...... everyone everyone from B&G, Jean-Pierre Meersseman, and Allergi say argh he is just having a off day... he'll do fine..

3rd game:
seedorf snores and sleeps on the pitch.... Allergi gets angry...... Seedorf underestimates the opponent.... he doesn't show grit and arrogance.... he needs to be more arrogant....

4th game:
he benches him for the first time...... 15 minutes to go....he comes on to the pitch... and makes a defence-splitting assist .

5th game:
seedorf is back!!!!!! Allergi decides Seedorf is untouchable....

.....

38th game:
Inter slaughter us 6-0.

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/features/6690,inside-acs-milanlab.aspx
 

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I love it how some people think the Milan Lab is some kind of magical laboratory with secret methods of training and magical potions they give the players...for god sakes the Milan lab is nothing better or worse than any other medical facility that other big clubs have.
 

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I love it how some people think the Milan Lab is some kind of magical laboratory with secret methods of training and magical potions they give the players...for god sakes the Milan lab is nothing better or worse than any other medical facility that other big clubs have.

It's much better than what a lot of clubs have.
 

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It amazes me that people think that Milan Lab is supposed to find a cure for players getting injured before they get injured. If players get injured, Milan Lab puts them in a position that decreases the chances of their injuries being re-aggravated. They are very conservative in their recovery schedules and put the players' long time well being ahead of immediate recovery. Kaka didn't follow their advice and fucked himself over.

Milan Lab is great at mainly one thing. It helps players extend their playing careers. Nesta, Pirlo, Seedorf, Gattuso, Ambro, Zambrotta, Inzaghi: while these guys don't play like 25 year olds, the fact that they are even able to compete at this level is a testament to how good the Lab is.
 

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_nero said...

Just a comment: on the first part, Milan Lab no longer manage AC Milan medical side. Berlusconi has acquired a new physio lab that cured most of AC Milan player the last two seasons and dismissed the Milan Lab structure definitively


http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2010/11/milans-age-of-austerity.html#comment-form

Hmm ... haven't heard this before. Anyone to confirm/write more about it?
 

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Well, MilanLab will have to work on the 37 year-old goal poaching robot...

let's hope they can patch him up :(
 

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A new instruments Milanello Accident 15/12/2010 16:00

" Chelt Therapy "

Source: mectronicmedicale.it

It's called " Chelt Therapy ", and is the latest innovation of the sports center of Milanello to address the increasingly sensitive aspect of prevention and treatment of muscle injuries, with the specific purpose of providing rapid and excellent therapeutic results in complete safety, without pain or side effects.

The new treatment combines medical devices to high-energy laser and cryotherapy Dry (surgery based on the use of extreme cold to destroy abnormal or diseased tissues), and is present in Milanello thanks to a partnership signed between AC Milan and MECTRONIC Medical, a company Grassobbio (BG) for over 20 years designs and manufactures medical equipment. "

This is an important goal for our company - explains Giancarlo Aloisini, CEO of MECTRONIC Care - which will complement one of the most important and recognized worldwide by providing football clubs, with its equipment, an important support for the maintenance and recovery perfect fitness of athletes. The partnership that binds us to the "Milanello training center medical equipement" We will also organize three events in the field of scientific caliber that are made right in Milanello Sports Centre . "

For More Information about Chelt Therapy
 

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Maybe Milanlab is like Area 51, hopefully soon we will be creating super alien crossed footballers who will win any competition we enter
 

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The science behind victory
July 29, 2011

By John Brewin, Senior Editor
(Archive)

"England is the most physical, Spain the most technical and Italy the most tactical."

Clarence Seedorf makes his comparison of footballing cultures while enjoying a rare dry spell of an unseasonably wet summer's day at AC Milan's pre-season training camp.

Seedorf is reclining on the veranda of the pioneering Milanello training complex, the place where Italian football's reputation as the most scientific was formed. Here, the club's MilanLab of scientists, doctors and specialist coaches is world famous for an ability to extend the top-level career of players beyond the usual thresholds of fading legs and ambitions. Seedorf, at 35, bears little sign of the wear and tear of ageing or a lack of motivation.

He is a model pupil for the MilanLab's devotion to personalised nutrition for each player, and is happy to spell out his interpretation of their ideas on the subject.

"With top sports, it's like you have a car, a Ferrari Formula 1," Seedorf says. "Those engineers need to make a difference on a car that's already perfect. We are very healthy people already and to make the difference you have to search deep and look to find what can add value.

"For anybody in life, they should focus on nutrition. Listening to my body, making sure you don't do strange things with it. Drinking alcohol? I don't use alcohol. Smoking? I don't smoke.

"The most important thing is to personalise your diet. We all have our own system that reacts in a certain way." On Milan's doctors' practice of constantly monitoring the nutritional levels of their players, he says: "That's why they test."

Milanello, hidden away in Varese's hilly countryside, was the progenitor for the futuristic training complexes that every wannabe superclub must possess. It was first built in 1963, the year the Rossoneri won their first of seven European Cups. Its clubhouse walls are bedecked with photos of glory years which continue until the present day - Milan celebrated their 18th Serie A title in May.

Of six pitches, one allows up to 4,500 people to watch a public training session. Up a flight of stairs, the MilanLab itself lies between a hi-tech gym and a swimming pool, opposite a set of outdoor punchbags where Rino Gattuso can no doubt take out his aggression. A now rarely-used walled pitch was once a vital tool in instilling the "pressing" game that Arrigo Sacchi used to power the team of Gullit, Baresi and Van Basten to European titles in 1989 and 1990 - a philosophy still followed to this day by England boss Fabio Capello.

Daniele Tognaccini was speaking to ESPNsoccernet as part of AC Milan's partnership with Nutrilite
OtherMilanLab project leader Daniele Tognaccini was speaking to ESPNsoccernet as part of AC Milan's partnership with Nutrilite.

The Lab was established in 2002 as a reaction to the ill-fated signing of Fernando Redondo from Real Madrid in 2000. Redondo, key to Real's Champions League wins in 1998 and 2000, played just 16 games in four years at Milan. By the time he arrived at Milanello, his physiology had failed him and Milan vowed to increase their scientific ability to prevent such expensive flops. Since then, the extension of the careers of Paolo Maldini and Billy Costacurta into their 40s and the longevity of players at San Siro has made the Lab's reputation. Of the players who lifted the Champions League at Old Trafford in 2003, five of the squad remain in the first-team reckoning, with Andrea Pirlo a very recent departure.

"The opportunity to have use of the MilanLab is great because it gives a player who is old an opportunity to extend their career," French midfielder Matthieu Flamini says. "These players, they are legends but you want to follow their step."

During the first of his two loan spells at AC Milan, David Beckham found himself having a hole in a tooth fixed to cure a back problem that was ailing his running ability. He also shed half his body fat in rapid succession.

"On the basis of data we make interventions and we see if this has any effect, and we have been working like that for ten years, since the MilanLab was founded, " Daniele Tognaccini, project leader of the MilanLab, says at a press event held jointly with Nutrilite, the club's official nutrition supplements provider. "We have a really huge database of dietary habits.

"We deal with three elements - biochemical, physical and psychological. This is like the ID of a player. If a player has physical or psychological stresses, all these are included in their assessment."

Tognaccini then fields a number of questions on two players against whom questions of physical fitness persist. "Ibrahimovic arrived on July 1 and he was fit. Antonio Cassano was not so fit," he says.

Despite winning eight titles in eight years, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is still to convince that he has the robustness to last a full season but AC Milan think they may have found a solution. "Ibrahimovic was not having breakfast, and since he started having breakfast, his performance has improved," Tognaccini says. "Breakfast for an athlete is important, especially when they have several training sessions.

"He's an extraordinary athlete, he's a top performer, but then his weight is 100 kilos and he moves as quick as someone with 60 kilos, and this requires a high energy consumption. You see this quite often at the end of the match: he's exhausted. He vomited once. At the end of a season, he arrives at similar condition to that, so he won't play as much this season."

Zlatan Ibrahimovic : A 100 kilo player who moves like a 60 kilo player, according to Tognaccini
GettyImagesZlatan Ibrahimovic : A 100 kilo player who moves like a 60 kilo player, according to Tognaccini

Later, Cassano, who once admitted that his time at Real Madrid heavily featured a hotel waiter bringing him "three or four pastries after I had sex", looks leaner than in those years and contents himself with a strong coffee or two ahead of training as Flamini tucks into a healthy bowl of fruit, eschewing the homemade ice-cream on offer.

Alessandro Nesta, meanwhile, reveals himself as a barista of some note behind the Milanello coffee counter, a skill perhaps gained during the long injury absences that look to be over when many had predicted the end of his career.

Like many a predecessor, Nesta, a veteran at 35, has signed on for one more season at the top. "A champion is a champion," Seedorf suggests. "The thing that will die is his motivation, but winning adds motivation."

And Tognaccini spells out the ultimate aim of the deep science of the MilanLab: "Our objective is to make the team win."

• Thanks to Amway, makers of Nutrilite, provider of Official Nutrition Supplements of AC Milan.
• Follow John on Twitter @JohnBrewinESPN


http://soccernet.espn.go.com/column...he-science-behind-victory-at-ac-milan?cc=5739
 

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was about to post the article till i saw you posted it. its an extremely good read.

all clinics have succes and failures. i think milanlab isnt a crock, it has helped extend several player's career.
 

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MilanLab should be closed yrs ago.
 

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Moggi is quoted to be questioning the MilanLab.....

LOL!!!! The MilanLab is total Shit!!! Shut it down :o
 

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Yeap.. the milanlab.. and the physical staff that prepare the preseason are not doing really well too.
 

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