Maldini - a quarter of a century of credibility

When Paolo Maldini broke the original lineup of AC Milan in the fall of 1985, an estimated 4.8 billion people called the planet Earth home. By the end of his defence career, he had two billion more neighbours.

5x Champions League winner (1988/89, 1989/90, 1993/94, 2002/03, 2006/07)

7x Italian champion (1987/88, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1995/56, 1998/99, 2003/04)

647 games in the Italian Premier League (a shared record)

2217 minutes played in World Cup finals (a record)

Italy national team 126 games, including 74 captains (7 goals)

Maldini, who broke through as a teenager, endured 25 seasons at the absolute top of the world, hanging the bushes just a month before his 41st birthday. Always a calm and dignified gentleman who preferred elegance and reason to a raw physical struggle. Il Capitano, Captain. They probably won't be made anymore.

Maybe they are friendly?

In 1996, in the middle of a warm summer day, the moon was overshadowed by the sun. The dreaded force surfaced. Satan's hoof kicked the Colosseum, Rome's largest amphitheatre, into a burning football field where earthly stars had to face demons from hell. It was a battle of good with evil, all or nothing.

"Maybe they're friendly?" asks Paolo Maldini at the beginning of this legendary Nike ad . And Eric Cantona gets a condemning look. From the first moments, it really seems that the stars are in big trouble: Luis Figo is barely escaping crushing, Rui Costa is knocked out in the air fight with his elbow knocked out, Ian Wright is treated to a stomach with a kick. If an Englishman dares to demand the right from a judge, he will face it face to face.

A moment later, four hell demons are already attacking Jorge Campos' goal. The Mexican is not a cardboard boy, of course, and rushes to the rescue to save the world, but before that he arrives in Maldini with a measured slip. After tackling, he takes two more opponents out of the game with accurate diagonal passing, thus launching an attack that will help save the world. Goodness wins again.

Maldini’s character emerges most clearly from this 90-second valve - a maybe gentleman who, at first glance, even in masks, has a positive attitude towards the inhabitants of hell, but when it comes to the game, it is robotically analytical and surgically accurate. If Maldini had played on the demons side ...

For a man who has spent a quarter of a century at the top of the world, Maldini’s career sends surprisingly few entities. If you were born on top, why should you leave? Of course, there were worse years in Milan, but if your first and last triumph of the Champions League is separated by 18 years, the decision can be approved. Just a decision, because he went to sue.

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