TODAY'S DECLARATIONS OF ADRIANO GALLIANI
9/2/2009
MILAN - Here are the important declarations made today by Adriano Galliani who answered journalists' questions during the presentation of the Trofeo Telecom Italy Fight Against Sla in program on Monday at San Siro. Click here.
KALA AND ODDO PRESENT
9/2/2009 7:44:00 PM
Adriano Galliani's words today at San Siro: "Oddo won a lot in 2006 and 2007 and he's training well. Kaladze is OK with playing on the left of the defence, we talked about it yesterday."
(ON THE ARCHIVE PHOTO: Adriano Galliani and "Kala" Kaladze)
MILAN - Milan's delegate administrator Adriano Galliani talked about the current themes concerning the Rossoneri after the press conference to present Monday evening's charity match at San Siro.
Starting from Saturday night's derby: "The team played well for half an hour, until the penalty. Then it happened what happened, the match changed, we conceded four goals and we have to stay quiet. That is football. But in our season there hasn't been just the derby, there was also the victory at Siena against a team who won 3-1 at Cagliari on Sunday. But in football people only remember the last match. After the Luigi Berlusconi Trophy and Siena, the wind changed. Then in the comments people look at the result and then think about why this result came about. The only reality, as of today, is that Inter have four points and we have three. Nothing else.
Ronaldinho? He did well in the first league match and in the second one he played for half an hour. All these criticisms on Ronaldinho don't consider that it was a very anomalous derby. Then, after the penalty, the team gave up also because we remained with ten men, because of the problem of the substitution that wasn't made, and the way things happened. If we had remained with ten men because of a normal sending off without further repercussions, we could have organised ourselves differently. I don't want to talk about that episode, in any case.
Seedorf? No, we can't say it was Seedorf's fault, there were more factors to blame. Seedorf is a player who has done well in all our best games in the last seven years. In any case, amid all the bitterness from Saturday night, I must say thank you to our fans, who did well not to whistle and continue supporting the team."
The other themes: "Yesterday I reminded Oddo that he came in January 2007 and that a few months later we won the Champions League with him. I don't see why he can't get back to doing well. The coach is telling me he's training well, he's full of desire and good intentions. He was a World Champion in 2006 and European Champion with us in 2007.
Kaladze? When the Champions League list was made up we talked with all our international players, along with Leonardo, to see if everything was OK. We also asked if Kaladze was prepared to play on the left side of the defence, and he said yes.
Concerning the national teams, at Livorno we will be the first team to go on the pitch after the international matches, Saturday at 18.00, but there were no alternatives. It will be up to the coach to make the right selection, because the called up players will return to us on Thursday and on Friday there will be the departure for Livorno.
Cissokho? I think he's an important player, in fact he came to us to do the medical checks after Milan had reached an agreement with Porto, but I don't want to come back on this argument because in the end the player didn't come to Milan for reasons that are not technical.
Viudez's contract rescission? Certainly, not only for this operation but also for others, Milan now have a free place for a non-EU player to buy during the January transfer window."