Never again without a coach, the mediocrity of the 1921/22 season taught many lessons for Milan. The Rossoneri’s first coach was an Austrian, his name was Ferdi Oppenheim. Fashion aside, his true passion was masterminding training plans and managing the locker room, he coached the team for several seasons. His arrival coincided with the change in name for Italy’s top football division, which at the time was called the Prima division. It had changed to a football player category that was a profession and not a mere hobby. Therefore Milan was set to gearing up to these higher standards so that the results were not the same as the past years. In short, a few years before World War I, it substantially changed the caliber of Milan’s football players.
Oppenheim arrived in 1922 and lead the team to fourth place, thirteen points below Genoa. Milan’s headquarters moved once again, from the Spatenbräu brewery over to Via Orefici, at Bar Vittorio Emanuele. The following year, still with Oppenheim, Milan reached eighth place. In short, Inter’s curse was still in effect, and only fifteen years had gone by since it was set. Nonetheless, the same period coincided with the birth of Fascism in Italy where the future Duce (Mussolini) would launch his “March on Rome” on October 28, in 1922.
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