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Silvio Berlusconi was coming .. a new Milan was coming !
-Since childhood Berlusconi had been an ardent fan of the famous Milanese footbal club , AC Milan . His father had taken him regularly to he stadiums on Sundays . In March 1986 as the crowing element of what was an outstandingly successful decade Berlu decided to buy the club. He buyed Milan to turn him into the greatest club in earth .
-In July 1986 the members if the " new AC Milan " team were presented to 10.000 fans . Team arrived by helicopter with loudspeakers playing Wagner's THE RIDE OF THE WALKYRIES .
"I knew very well that people laugh at me" Berlusconi recounted later , "even treat me with irony , but we need to show that the whole way of thinking at AC MILAN had changed . For the new 1987-87 season some 65,000 tickets were sold , an all-time record.
Stars Dutch footbal light up the grey on Sunday afternoons at the San Siro stadium . Marc van Basten , Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard were at the heart of new team , alongside outstanding Italian defenders like Franco Baresi and the young Paolo Maldini.
Within a few mothns San Siro's teraces were full of youths with their faces pinted black , theirhair coloured with with red and black and the dreadlocks falling over their shoulders . Berlusconi , too , espoused an antireacist position : " I explained to them ( the fan clubs) that it was possible to support a club without being violent or intolerant ..
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