The English defender on his arrival at the Rossoneri: “It all started in the summer of 2020. The first time I spoke to Maldini…”
“Imagine if we win the Champions League…”. Fikayo TomoriEnglish defender of Milanrelive the emotions of the 19th scudetto rossonero in a long interview on the Youtube channel Players Tribune Football: “There was a sea of people. It was incredible. The tunnel was blocked because there were too many people, we were there and they blocked everything, we saw them, we heard them banging on the bus and I thought ‘Wow, crazy’“. They had all these colored smoke bombs. It was all dark, you couldn’t see anything. We could only see the smoke bombs and hear their chants. Something happens and we hear a loud boom. Something I’ve never experienced in my life. Imagine if let’s win the Champions League… (laughs, ed)”.
The match in Reggio Emilia with the Sassuolo: “My friends usually didn’t come away but they usually came to this game. Usually in Sassuolo the stadium was never full. There are four bleachers, the home fans had their own but the rest was all the fans of the Milan. Our fans caused the Sassuolo website to go haywire. People were willing to pay thousands of euros for a ticket. Before the match in the dressing room we said to each other ‘Come on guys, this is the day’. I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy in my life. I remember at the end a fan grabbed me by the shirt and said ‘Fik, you can’t imagine what this means to us. Thank you’. I was there.”
Then moving on to the emotions of the match against Atalanta (“You could feel the energy throughout the stadium. My friends were also at the stadium, they told me they experienced the most incredible atmosphere ever. Even though that day we didn’t win the scudetto it’s as if we did”), the English defender also unveiled a rmarket backstory on his arrival at the Rossoneri: “Actually it all started in the summer of 2020. The first time I spoke to Maldini. I remember we were on zoom, he connected and I stayed like this for a while… We talked a lot. First I must say that she speaks excellent English. When he spoke English so well I was very surprised.”
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“We talked for a while – Tomori said – I was sitting there and I realized that I had just spoken to Maldini. In my head I was thinking: ‘Even if in the end I don’t go to Milan, I can say that I spoke to Maldini’. He told me : ‘I’ve heard you’re coming to Milan’. It was a few days earlier but I was already in a situation where the transfer hadn’t been accepted but I knew that if I had to leave Chelsea I would have gone to Milan. Sadly, it didn’t happen then I stayed at Chelsea for another six months. I remember thinking: ‘Ac Milan? Wow, that would be fantastic’. Maybe I didn’t feel ready for the transfer yet. Going to another country and all. Then December came and there was the window winter transfer market, I spoke to my agent and at that point I immediately said yes. I was already there in my head but I didn’t tell anyone out of superstition. I arrived with my agent, we entered the Milan home and all the Champions League were there. a lot of Ballon d’Ors. I thought: ‘This is a really great club.”
A big club with a big stadium, Tomori thus tells the first time a San Siro: “I had never been there, I went there for the first time during the pandemic. It was different without spectators. The first time I looked around and it was fantastic. The first match that gave me the creeps was the first of the Champions League “We managed to qualify after some time. We played against Atlético Madrid and I remember never hearing anything like that. I was impressed.”
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