Silvio Berlusconi part 1: The man who made Milan

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Silvio Berlusconi died this week at the age of 86, so we're republishing this Golazzo two-parter from 2020 profiling the man who helped make Milan such a formidable force in the 80s, 90s and 00s. In this first episode, Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti looks at how Berlusconi brought an elite level set-up on and off the pitch, making his three-time Champions League winners AC Milan the benchmark in European football. Produced by: Charlie Jones RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: The powerful man will fix things (01m 00s) • PART 2: Berlusconi’s beginnings, forming Italy’s first national commercial TV network (06m 00s) • PART 3a: Berlusconi moves into football with AC Milan (15m 30s) • PART 3b: Silvio secures Sacchi and makes some big signings (28m 00s) • PART 3c: Success comes for Milan in Serie A and in Europe (32m 30s) • PART 4a: Capello’s Milan take things further (38m 00s) • PART 4b: Milan 4-0 Barcelona in the 94 Champions League final (44m 00s) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello listeners, this is producer Ben and as you know team totally is taking a bit of
0:08.0	a break after this most marathon of seasons.
0:11.2	But following Monday's news about the death of Silvio Berlusconi, we're republishing
0:15.8	this two-parter from our old show Galatso all about the man who helped make Milan such
0:20.4	a formidable force in Italian and European football in the late 80s, the 90s and the
0:25.0	90s.
0:26.0	It was recorded in March 2020 and features of course, Gav Marcosi alongside James Horncastle
0:31.8	and James Richardson.
0:34.0	Today on Galatso, hiho Silvio, it's the Berlusconi story which are the irresistible
0:49.9	rise of perhaps modern cultures single most important figure, the man who made Milan,
0:55.0	the man who transformed the Italian game.
1:19.9	Somewhere in the Adriatic, a fresh face young Italian with a winning smile is entertaining
1:27.5	his cruise ship passengers.
1:29.2	It is the late 1950s and that man will grow up to be the most powerful figure in Italy
1:34.5	and the most successful football club owner in the world.
1:37.4	He is Silvio Berlusconi and this is part one of his story.
1:48.9	Gav Marcosi, hello, hello Gav and James Horncastle, man or my look at James James.
1:57.5	Dear me, lovely to see you both, lovely to be back with another Galatso and a Galatso
2:03.9	today with a very special soundtrack as you were just hinting there.
2:07.4	So many great bits of music associated with Silvio in his career, many of which were actually
2:11.7	composed by the great man himself.
2:14.3	My favourite Gav I think is this.
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