Maldini Monday
By: Gianfranco | April 6th, 2009Special thanks to Fetyani for making this a reality. As many of you may or may not a few years back a film was created, simply called Paolo Maldini Il Film. The film chronicled one of the greatest players ever to play the game, and quite easily the greatest defender to ever walk the Earth. The film was made prior to the 2007 CL Win which makes it all the more amazing and we are going to share some that with you here.
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is pato still 19?
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Yes I think his birthday is in the summer.
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theres your answer lev lucien.
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and paloschi last year.
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yes lev he came on for nani coz they were losing and needed goals so they had to send on a striker. There were only two strikers on the bench and they were both from the reserves…
This is exactly how Paloschi got a start at Milan. And please, the guy got 35 minutes. Lets see how many more minutes he gets in the rest of the season with rooney, berbatov around.
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lol a 19 year old that you paid how much for??? I would hope he’d get some meaningful time. How many players like Macheda, Feghouli, Rafael, and Wilshere does serie A have. Players don’t cost 15 mil Euros and get time?
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i actually dont know who else they had on the bench, but it doesnt matter, there was no one from the first team.
I will guarantee that paloschi had more minutes last season than macheda will have this season. Write it down.
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lev, lets not pretend that macheda is even a manunited youth player. He is a lazio youth player that was poached due to the italian laws.
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The point I am trying to make is that Italian football is unattractive for the extremely talented youth. Spain and England especially are more appealing leagues for players of this age frame.
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what have they done with the real galliani?! all those italians under 32?! cant be real!
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Why haven’t players like Viudez and Cardaccio been given a proper run out? I’m not a Milan fan but I’m familiar that both were promising young Uruguayians. Have they seen the field much?
What about Rodney Strasser? I saw a peek of him this season and he didn’t look all that bad. Has he seen the field since that brief appearance earlier this season?
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What about Udinese? As a Chilean I have seen how they have consistently fielded young Chilean players. As of today they have two Alexis Sanchez and Mauricio Isla both 20.
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“The point I am trying to make is that Italian football is unattractive for the extremely talented youth. Spain and England especially are more appealing leagues for players of this age frame.”
the big clubs in every club in italy, england and spain have the same problem…. Look what happened to dos santos at barcelona, rossi at man united… there are always 1 or 2 exceptions but thats what they are, exceptions to the rule.
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lev you are talking about a team where not one but TWO former world players of the year are sitting on the bench. Its hard to give time to viudez.
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“The point I am trying to make is that Italian football is unattractive for the extremely talented youth. Spain and England especially are more appealing leagues for players of this age frame.”
In italy young players are shielded a little bit more than in other teams but i dont think it is necessarily a bad thing as their careers go on for longer as well. Look at the difference between ronaldo and inzaghi. One started early and fizzled out early and the other was shielded at first developed slowly and is still banging in the goals at 35.
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I think Ronaldo is an exception. He has structural problems with his body. Or, is your point that playing first-team football at a young age is what caused his body to break?
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that was my point johanna. The guy has been dealing with studs up overambitious tackles since he was 17. That is a fundamental period of growth for the body and it was hampered with that kind of attention leaving him physically weak for the rest of his career.
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and i fear messi may be suffering the same fate.
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k, i wouldnt say it was the challenges that necessarily caused Ronaldo’s problems, but the muscle he put on while his body was still growing. The problems is if ur doing lots of wieght training while youre young you develop muscles that dont end up suiting your body once it finishes growing. Hence extra straining on parts of your body like ligaments, which have been a really terrible problem for Ronaldo.
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lev you are talking about a team where not one but TWO former world players of the year are sitting on the bench. Its hard to give time to viudez.
I would agree normally but injuries this season at Milan are abundant especially in the midfield. Off the top, and I’m sure a Milan fan can add a few names; Pirlo, Kaka, Ronnie, Gattuso, and Flamini have all missed some extended time.
Are you telling me that on a team with this many injuries and during a rather disappointing year Viudez, Cardaccio, Strasser and any other youth product that I can’t name shouldn’t be used more?
I think it’s impossible to not see Milan’s, if not Italy as a whole, preference to older players. How else can you justify Gourcuff on Bordeaux?
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also…I wouldn’t say Ronaldo fizzled out early either.
He was an important part of 3 world cups.
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ronaldo fizzled out before as soon as he turned 30.
thats pretty early.Lev, I still havent heard anything from you to convince me that things are different in england and spain. Especially for the big clubs.
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lol i’m trying….players 20 or under who get quality playing time that I’m aware of…
For Barcelona: Busquets gets a fair amount of run outs. He’s good but I don’t understand how he can play more with Barcelona’s crowded midfield than Giovinco who is older and most believe better and plays with a much weaker Juve midfield. Bojan, who played more last year I think, gets some quality minutes off the bench.
Real Madrid: Marcelo has played alot this year. I think Higuain is 21 but he plays a ton.
Athletico: Obviously Aguero but thats expected…Ever Banega has gotten some decent time this year though.
Man U: Anderson plays some and Rafael has started a good number of games this year at 18.
Arsenal: Theo Walcott, Carlos Vela is often used as a sub as well.
Besides Pato how many players 24 or younger have been on the field more than twice for Milan?
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Can anyone post links to download this entire Maldini film?
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anderson hasnt played that much this year. i will give you rafael however. he has played a decent bit. Even then thats only 2. Thats hardly such a huge jump on Milan
arsenal and their policy we all know i think that can be understood.
barcelona tbh has a mind blowing youth system. messi, bojan, basquets, iniesta, xavi, pique. They have an amazing youth system. Its very very enviable.
higuain broke his way through because of the longterm injury to ruud. Otherwise he would have gotten the same amount of garbage minutes he got last season.
Atletico… sorry only 2 big clubs in spain.
We currently have a team that needs to undergo some changes, we all know this fact. I wish we had a youth system like barcelona, but we dont. We also have the problem of not having a B team in second division where they can get real game time until they are called up to the first team (which can be done at any time). We have to wait until the end of the year.
From what I have heard and I believe we will be recalling a major part of our loaned out youth. Abate will surely return, di gennaro maybe, paloschi maybe and gourcuff definitely, if he wants to return to the club.
Its a time of rebuilding and it takes time and does not happen overnight. Manchester United, Barcelona have undergone recent rebuilding and are at the start of their cycles. We are at the end of ours.
The players that can get some playing time at milan are loaned out so that they can get enough playing time until they are good enough. Thats the difference between italian league and the others. The reserve system isnt good enough and to give these players good playing time. They need to be farmed out until they are capable of consistent first team performances.
In england and spain they play in the reserves until they are. In italy they play in other teams until they are. Most of them arent ready for consistent first team performances until they are 22-23 anyway and they play regularly in the reserves and occasionally in the first team. In italy without the reserve system they would only get occasional first team performances. Which is not enough. Hence they are loaned out.
Of course there are some brilliant prodigies you have to include like messi, bojan, pato who break in and you just cant deny them. But for most other players they have a growing process. In italy they grow away from home where as in other leagues their reserves system allows them to grow at home.
There are differences but I just didnt like the blanket statement that you made about italy not being attractive to youth. The system is different but that does not equal unattractive.
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