The second-hand ticked at the Milan restaurant L’Orologio di Milano. Forty-four diners were seated around a long table on March 9, 1908, perhaps some smiling, but certainly some with tension building on their faces. They were the mavericks of the Milan Football and Cricket Club and were there to create a rival company in the city of Milano. They had a different idea of what football should be compared to that of current the Rossoneri’s leadership. They felt it was time for them to start the Inter Milan club. This gave a definite blow to Milan with many side-effects, amplified by the team’s exclusion from the championships after the splitting of teams, Italians on one side and Federal on the other.
The forty-four members at the table complained that AC Milan did not have an official or sufficiently strong position to defend the presence of foreigners in the teams concerned, a highly reminiscent occurence of what was decided by the FIGC in the eighties. Even if only for a few years, with the closure of the championship games to foreigners, it gave way to disagreements with Giannino Camperio, one of the most prominent and influencial members of AC Milan, who apparently did not have a very likeable character.
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