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Fikayo Tomori on his five years at Milan: ‘San Siro was full and I just thought: Phwoar’
He loves it here.
“In this part, there’s a lot of finance people, foreigners and people from outside of Italy,” Tomori explains. “Having that multi-cultural side of Milan accompanying proper Italian culture, it’s a nice mix. I’ve immersed myself here so I know what’s going on.” Skyscrapers and sfogliatelle. What’s not to like?
“That’s the first thing you’re hit with,” Tomori says. “Pictures of all the Champions League nights. You see Maldini, Franco Baresi, Andriy Shevchenko, Kaka. All these legends. All these trophies. All these memories. This place is history and legacy. It’s part of the culture. (It’s) a nice feeling purely because all these great players were here, walked these same steps, same hallways, saw the same things and played on the same pitches.”
The bus parade when Milan won the league four years ago was something else.
“It was supposed to be two hours. We ended up staying on for five because there were so many people on the streets. We got to the Duomo and the only time I’d seen it before was with tourists taking pictures. We got there and it was full. You couldn’t see the floor. It was just people, fireworks and noise. I was like, ‘This is a real institution of football. This is real passion and love’.”
“I remember the first game we played here,” Tomori says, recalling the return of supporters to the stands following the pandemic. “I think it was Cagliari. The stadium was full and I just thought: ‘Phwoar’. I used to play FIFA when I was younger. You could choose the stadium you played in and — I don’t know — it’d be Manchester United vs Chelsea but you could choose to play at San Siro. I used to do that a lot with my cousins and I was thinking: ‘Wow! This is it. This is the San Siro!’.”
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He loves it here.
“In this part, there’s a lot of finance people, foreigners and people from outside of Italy,” Tomori explains. “Having that multi-cultural side of Milan accompanying proper Italian culture, it’s a nice mix. I’ve immersed myself here so I know what’s going on.” Skyscrapers and sfogliatelle. What’s not to like?
“That’s the first thing you’re hit with,” Tomori says. “Pictures of all the Champions League nights. You see Maldini, Franco Baresi, Andriy Shevchenko, Kaka. All these legends. All these trophies. All these memories. This place is history and legacy. It’s part of the culture. (It’s) a nice feeling purely because all these great players were here, walked these same steps, same hallways, saw the same things and played on the same pitches.”
The bus parade when Milan won the league four years ago was something else.
“It was supposed to be two hours. We ended up staying on for five because there were so many people on the streets. We got to the Duomo and the only time I’d seen it before was with tourists taking pictures. We got there and it was full. You couldn’t see the floor. It was just people, fireworks and noise. I was like, ‘This is a real institution of football. This is real passion and love’.”
“I remember the first game we played here,” Tomori says, recalling the return of supporters to the stands following the pandemic. “I think it was Cagliari. The stadium was full and I just thought: ‘Phwoar’. I used to play FIFA when I was younger. You could choose the stadium you played in and — I don’t know — it’d be Manchester United vs Chelsea but you could choose to play at San Siro. I used to do that a lot with my cousins and I was thinking: ‘Wow! This is it. This is the San Siro!’.”
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