AC Milan and Italy legend Franco Baresi has passed away aged 66. One of the game's greatest defenders, Baresi won three European Cups and two UEFA Super Cups, representing Italy on 81 occasions. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and former team-mates.

🚨🔴🔵 Paris Saint-Germain have signed young Italian GK Alessandro Longoni from AC Milan on a free. Renato Marin will go on loan to Portugal. Longoni will sign soon and be the third goalkeeper as @B_Quarez reported.

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Christian Pulisic has been diagnosed with a microfracture and bone bruise of the tibia/fibula in his right leg suffered during the match against Belgium. U.S. Soccer and AC Milan will be collaborating on his recovery plan.

🚨🔴🔵 Paris Saint-Germain count on three exits almost guaranteed for this summer. 👋🏼 🇵🇹 Gonçalo Ramos to AC Milan for €74m fix plus add-ons. 🇰🇷 Kang-in Lee, in advanced talks with Atlético. 🇫🇷 Randal Kolo Muani agreed personal terms with Juventus. 🎥➕

“For the ultras in San Siro’s Curva Sud, there is only one capitano and it is not Gianni Rivera, nor is it Paolo Maldini. It’s Franco Baresi. “Baresi went through everything with Milan in ways the aforementioned greats did not. “The club remain indistinguishable from the Maldini dynasty, with Cesare and Paolo lifting the European Cup and, more recently, Daniel making his Serie A debut in red and black. “But Milan and Baresi were family in more ways than one. By the time he moved to Milanello, Franco and his siblings were orphans. The club took him in and allowed the shy, taciturn boy to develop into one of Italian football’s most celebrated leaders.” Franco Baresi, the legendary former AC Milan defender and Italy international, has passed away at the age of 66. @JamesHorncastle wrote about Baresi for The Soccer 100, The Athletic’s definitive book on the 100 greatest players of all time. 🔗

Football journalist Luca Esposito shot dead and set on fire in horrific execution. Italian sports journalist Luca Esposito has died in the region of Eboli. Sounds like a mafia hit so far. Recently watched a short doc about how the mob infiltrated inter, Milan and Juventus via ultras. Various ultras around Europe, and the clip of AC Milan ultras lecturing the players and coaches struck me. Mafia, especially in southern Italy and Sicily, are still quite powerful, although I do believe that they have been weakened since the 90s. They got a bit of a bump over Covid apparently. When people were struggling and the government weren’t helping they swooped in and made some gains. It might be that he was not killed for something that was football related. One of the things that were said is that he had worked on some things that had to do with the buffalo mozzarella business (but they said it was for the Caserta area, not Battipaglia-Eboli which is where he was killed. Mozzarella has these two main areas of production) Basically every food product industry in italy is controlled by the ndrangheta. The italians really take their food seriously. With cost of living crisis organised crime are involved in all sorts of stuff nowadays, especially high value food like olive oil and cheese. The same reason as to why avocado business can be dangerous in Mexico. Organized crime likes to involve themselves in these sorts of industries.