Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiwho died this Monday due to leukemia, had a great influence, in addition to football, on other sports such as rugby, volleyball, baseball or Italian ice hockey, with the creation of the now extinct ‘Polisportiva Milano Mediolanum’, a project to unite the disciplines of the city of Milan under the brand of the football team.
“Berlusconi has had a huge impact on Italian rugby, always winning and then with many other things. With the idea of the Polisportiva he made us flourish again”, the former Argentine rugby player told Sky Sports Italia on Monday Diego Dominguezinternational with Argentina and Italy and former Amatori Milano, owned by Silvio Berlusconi during the existence of Polisportiva.
“We were always on TV, we always had different cars and we took pictures with people. I remember going on TV to a morning show. I have very good memories of him, he was someone I held in very high esteem and today I am very sad about this bad news.”, he added.
And it is that Berlusconi, in the glorious years of Milan, wanted to expand the club’s brand and created the Polisportiva Milano Mediolanuma sports club that brought together several sports disciplines with a team in Milan -volleyball, rugby, ice hockey and baseball- under the control of fininvestthe financial group he owned.
The Polisportiva Milano Medionalum It was active between 1989 and 1994, and was coordinated until 1991 by the Italian Fabio Cappelo, who was later the coach of Milan, heir to his compatriot Arrigo Sacchi.
The creation of this sports club was possible thanks to a large outlay on the part of ‘Il Cavaliere’, which, instead of creating new teams, bought and renamed several existing teams from the northern city that began to play with the team’s crest. soccer.
In the case of baseball, he bought BKV Milano and which was renamed Milano Baseball 1946, winner of two Italian Cups (1990 and 1991), two European Cup Winners’ Cups (1991 and 1992) and one CEB Super Cup (1992).
With Rugby, Polisportiva’s most profitable discipline, Berlusconi acquired Amatori Rugby Milano, which became Amatori Mediolanum and, shortly before it disappeared in 1993, AC Milan Rugby. It was the only team that survived several years after the disappearance of the sports organization.
The rugby section won four ‘Scudetti’ (1990-91, 1992-93, 1994-95 and 1995-96) and one Italian Cup (1994-95).
In the case of volleyball, he bought Pallavolo Mantova, changed its name to Gonzaga Milano and ended up being AC Milan Volley.
Winner of a Cup Winners’ Cup (1992-93) and two Club World Cups (1990 and 1992), the volleyball section had to cede its license to Petrarca and started again, no longer under the name of Milan, in Serie B2.
In addition, in ice hockey he did the same operation as with the rest and bought the Hockey Club Diavoli Rossoneri Milano and the sports rights of Como, creating shortly after the Hockey Club Devils Milano, which ended up being AS Milan Hockey, winner of three ‘Scudetti’ and an Alpenliga.
The only operation that Berlusconi tried and could not achieve was to include the basketball club in the operation, Olimpia Milano.
Source: EFE
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