The second president in the history of AC Milan was Pietro Pirelli, whom, since 1909, after Edwards, was in fact, also the first Italian president. He was appointed in the month of January which was considered the so-called “days of the blackbird.”
For the Milanese entrepreneur this signaled the beginning of his twenty years of active presidency while leaving the rossoneri board substantially empty. Those two decades were rather troubled for Milan, since that period gave way to the First World War. Evidently Italy took part in the war in 1915, but nevertheless that period gave way to high caliber strikers in Milan such as Santagostino and Van Hague. If there was one success, beyond the mere game and sport, it was Pirelli’s entrepreneurial endeavor, the construction of San Siro stadium in 1926.
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