A piece of the history of Milan

Two years ago he left Madrid saw Raul. Last year, but then found he had saved a return ticket in Manchester saw Scholes farewell to Old Trafford. This year will Juventus Del Piero after a lifetime of success Bianconeri. Sometimes clubs have to face difficult when performance outputs commands and the passage of time does not forgive. Players who have been more than that. The hard part is seeing what happens to Milan: Up to four players with a long history of success in the club, four idols for a hobby that miss their numbers at San Siro, was fired this season. Alessandro Nesta, Gennaro Gattuso, Filippo Inzaghi and Clarence Seedorf possibly live their last days in the Rossoneri club: a piece of living history of the club in northern Italy.

They were joined by two other players without a history as long-lived in Milan but also important in recent years as Zambrotta and Van Bommel. Both have different causes: the side, 35 and arrived in 2008 from Barcelona, ​​will head to possibly MLS American after having not just in the last season for Allegri. Meanwhile, the Dutch, of the same age as Zambrotta and was a fixture for the technician has decided to return home to live his last days as a player at the club where he started, the PSV . The Dutchman, visible emotion in his farewell, has offered a good performance year and a half as Rossoneri.

In this way leave the club several important pieces of Milan he won two Champions Leagues with Ancelotti on the bench after Andrea Pirlo ahead a year ago. Downs are not necessarily by age: the central Colombian Yepes, 36, has been renewed for another year, and Seedorf and Nesta were still significant technical schemes. But his cycle at the club was over but their names still embroidered with gold thread in the history of Milan. In an emotional final game of the season against Novara in which there was nothing at stake, Gattuso, Nesta and Inzaghi have been dismissed on the lawn of so many years has been his hobby.

Inzaghi scored including the game-winning goal: a goal of yours, uncheck, to find the hole and the finish should be appropriate to hold the ball between the networks. Stage was then turned to nine and Pippo could not suppress the tears as he celebrated with his teammates. Inzaghi, the player with an idyllic relationship with the offside line, retires at 38 years after scoring more than 200 goals in his career (spread, among others, Juventus and Atalanta) and win everything with Milan, whose military ranks since 2001. Inzaghi was always a great performance up to that fateful night of Champions League against Real Madrid, when after scoring two goals and forward Raul in the list of top scorers in European competition was seriously injured. Would never be the same, but in the memory are his goals, his Champions League, the World and the tears in his farewell.

What about Gattuso? Hard to find a better representative of that football far from the gallery, based on effectiveness, courage, verging always limits. Gattuso is better than anyone the catenaccio, that when not engaged verses but earn titles. With 34 years and from 21 in Millanello, Rhino has also given time to win it all as Rossoneri. Does not retire: he wants to continue making war, and wants to do as a Ranger in Glasgow, in the style of Chuck Norris, if it allows the expression. There he played for a year in 1997 and at the Ibrox Stadium is a good place to return. Next to Kaka, Pirlo and Shevchenko, Gattuso found his place and was also necessary to achieve success. An idol in San Siro.

Has possibly been the best center in the world at the time. Alessandro Nesta (36 years) came to Milan in 2002 surrounded by controversy after his departure from Lazio, where they hurt to go see who was the leader of the Roman team behind the best time in its history. Nesta was quick to do the same in the rear with partners like Maldini AC Milan or Stam, no less. Elegant and yet few effective as almost none, Sandro was voted best defense of Calcium and included in the best eleven UEFA , And forming with Cannavaro in the 2006 World Zagas one of the best in living memory. Like Pippo or Rhino also won it all in Milan, and could now move to the MLS , As in his day did Beckenbauer.

And it is Seedorf, who according Galliani has not yet made ​​a decision. Dutch wandering eternal technically say it improves every year and would surely adding minutes to stay in the club, but they demand from Brazil, specifically Botafogo, and Clarence no frowns a retreat in a country where soccer is a religion.

It was a special day that these players have lived on the lawn of San Siro, special and sad at once. Sounds like a farewell to the view but not to slip into the sheepskin and Rossoneri. Galliani says they are irreplaceable: where do you find another Gattuso, another Inzaghi, Nesta another? And not without reason. Representatives of a golden age for Milan and the Italian, their names always walk by the corner of San Siro.