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Today is a day to say goodbye. The sun starts to heat up at noon, and at night, the stars gather together in the sky, and the neon lights of San Siro make the place colorful.

Today is a day to say goodbye. Roseneri, the city of Milan, and world football will bid farewell to a great old boy.

On May 19, 2007, in the 37th round of the 2006-07 Serie A season, AC Milan faced Udinese at home. This is Milan's last home game of the season and the last professional game for 41-year-old Alessandro Costacurta.

His nickname is Baton, and his nickname is Billy. Today is his farewell game, where he will bid farewell to professional football after 23 years of playing.

Today is a day to say goodbye. One of the most outstanding man-marking central defenders in world football, a representative of Italian football defensive culture, the founder of the Milan dynasty, a living textbook on defensive awareness and defensive techniques, and the founder of the Milan Round Table Paladins, Costacurta will be here today. Here he bids farewell to the football stadium he loved all his life.

Even Inter Milan, which has always been in opposition to AC Milan, did not make any mistakes. They also praised the baton's career. The whole of Italy, Europe and the world were praising him.

Eighty thousand people filled the San Siro, and the stands were filled with huge portraits of the number 5 with red and black stripes. Many heavyweights in football came to the scene, including Costacurta's old friends, buddies and even old rivals. .

The old baton cannot treat a super heavyweight UEFA Cup final as his farewell game like the German superstar Hassler who retired in Madiburg. If possible, the Champions League final in a few days will be a very memorable farewell performance. But he can't do it, and AC Milan can't do it, because unlike Hasler, he still has considerable strength until the end of his career. Costacurta can no longer meet the normal game requirements.

Hasler is only one month younger than Costacurta. He was 39 years old when he retired two years ago, and this year the baton is 41 years old.

In fact, five years ago, after the 01-02 season, Costacurta retired once, and there was even a farewell game like today. At that time, he was 'only' 36 years old. After retiring, he was unwilling to be lonely and planned to play in the American Major League to recuperate. But at the last moment when the transfer window was about to close at the end of August, AC Milan felt that the back line of defense was insufficient and urgently summoned Costacurta to wear the shirt again. So, having been loyal to Milan all his life, he returned without hesitation.

But this time goodbye, everyone knew he would never come back.

In fact, Costacurta knew he was old twelve years ago, when he was only 29 years old. In the Toyota Cup that year, two fatal mistakes by the baton caused the world-dominated AC Milan to lose 0:2 to Sarsfield. From that day on, everyone knew he was old.

Facts have proved that everyone was right. After 1995, Costacurta's competitive level never reached or even approached his peak.

But it is such a classic car that is gradually going downhill and continues to serve the Rossoneri for 12 years. It's not that he's in love, or that AC Milan can't lose face, but because of his hard work, Costacurta's professional attitude is unparalleled in the world.

During these twelve years, Costacurta was like a revolutionary screw, turning wherever needed. Needless to say, the central defender is his job, but the two full-backs on the left and right are full of freshness. Baton relies on his rich experience on the field, and he can fill any holes in the defense.

It’s not like I’ve never done this as a center forward.

Although he failed to score a goal. I have played as a defensive midfielder a lot, so I am not unfamiliar at all. The baton said: I am a brick in Milan, I can move it wherever it is needed.

Today Costacurta started as a defensive midfielder. To be honest, it's not that he has much experience playing as a defensive midfielder now. He really doesn't dare to put him on the defensive line. If he insists on putting him on the defensive line, it will essentially be an act of staking the enemy. Even though AC Milan no longer values ​​the results of this game, they cannot deliberately follow the losing pattern.

Two days ago, the AC Milan club made a major decision: the first priority is to win the Champions League championship, and the qualification for the Champions League next season is left to fate. In other words, the league match with Udinese before the Champions League final was strategically abandoned by AC Milan.

This is not only the decisive temperament of wealthy clubs, but also the helplessness forced by reality.

There are only two rounds left in the league, and they are 4 points away from fourth place Fiorentina. If Viola wins a victory, it will not help if Milan wins the day. Most of the main players are already very tired. If they continue to forcefully pursue two-line gains, they may end up with nothing.

Maybe Milanello's feng shui is biased this year, and there are a lot of strange things happening in the league. AC Milan has encountered some inexplicable troubles this season. However, the Champions League performed very well. Including the qualifying matches, they had 12 wins, 1 draw and one loss in 14 games, scoring 42 goals and conceding 9. Such offensive power made European football fearful all night long.

Last week, the front page of "Gazzetta dello Sport" published an article by the gold medal reporter and famous writer Fabio Licari - "Without Milan, Serie A would be a joke." In addition to praising AC Milan's outstanding performance in Europe, the article also denounced the disgrace of other top players.

Serie A champion Inter Milan lost to Valencia in football and failed to beat anyone in a group fight; Roma made all Italians ashamed of them with a miserable 1:7. Chievo didn't even bother to mention it. They even dared to lose to the Bulgarian team in the qualifying round.

Only AC Milan has maintained the dignity of Serie A in Europe, and only AC Milan dares to break the increasingly powerful Premier League's attempt to monopolize the Champions League.

Perhaps it was this article that gave Milan's senior management the determination to cut off their strength. After careful consultation, the first thing to give up was the game with Udinese, even if it was Costacurta's farewell game.

Almost all the players who could become important players in the Champions League final were hidden, so Costacurta, wearing the captain's armband, led a group of minions onto the court that belonged to him.

The 22-year-old Argentine left-back Leandro Grimmi made his first appearance on behalf of AC Milan. Although his personnel belongs to the first team, he has been mixed with the second team before. It has been a year since Zhuoyang did not know that he still had such a teammate.

Among the substitutes and substitutes, there is only one main player in the starting lineup, and he is No. 18 Zhuoyang.

Since he gave up the league, Zhuoyang was naturally not part of the plan for this game, but he forcibly persuaded Ancelotti from Braida with a very firm attitude. Zhuoyang certainly knows that qualification for the Champions League next season is very slim, but he does not want to give up and cannot change the club's strategic policy, but he himself wants to give it a try again.

He was suspended for two games because of the "argument incident", and it was precisely these two games where one loss and one draw caused AC Milan to lose hope of qualifying for the Champions League. Zhuo Yang believed that he was responsible. Although no one spoke about this in front of him, he knew that he could not shirk it.

In the first Serie A season, the suspension alone reached as many as eight games. As a forward, this is simply appalling. Some of these eight-game suspensions are his fault, and some are due to bad luck. Zhuoyang is too lazy to think about how to distinguish the responsibilities, but there is nothing to say about these two games.

Braida and Ancelotti were a little surprised at Zhuoyang's stubbornness and seriousness, because he had always been playful and playful with them this year. Seeing that he continued to refuse, Zhuoyang's face dropped, and he was obviously emotional. The two had no choice but to agree to his request.

Of course, the most important reason is that the Milan laboratory shows that Zhuoyang's physical fitness and functional condition are excellent. Unless there is an injury, it will have minimal impact on the Champions League final five days later. Therefore, there are benefits to more bans.

But Kaka, who has played the most games this season among the main lineup, was not so lucky, and his request to participate was not approved. ...

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