AC Milan had a fixed office address before 1955, at 36 via Venezia, and later transferred to 4 via Andegari, but the Rossoneri players only considered their personal dwellings as their homes in between training sessions. For club owner Andrea Rizzoli, it did not seem practical for his players to go home at the end of the day. This belief therefore sparked his vision for the construction of a village estate where players can find everything they need to live without falling into the temptations and distractions that were brought on by city life.
This initial vision was the seed that started Milanello, a place that would become a temporary residence where the Rossoneri could devote themselves exclusively to their profession of playing football. During Rizzoli’s presidency, the project was called “Villaggio Milan” (Milan Village) but it was only to be built many years later, during the early 1960s. The plans to build it came about 10 years earlier in 1954 by an architect (Viani) and an angineer (Crescentini). The village takes up a land area of 160,000 square meters (1.7M sq.ft.), includes 6 pitches and is located 40 km from the city of Milano.
On a side note, it is important to know that Milanello is also the name given to the Rossoneri’s club mascot. He can be described as a cartoonish-looking devil. Really though, he doesn’t look as scary as you would expect from a devil, but that is of course because he is meant to be a favorite among the much younger Rossoneri fans.
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