Journalist
November 2, 2024 (changed at 5.23pm) – MILANO
You look at the weather, sometimes, what jokes it plays. Let’s go back to Monday 8 April 2024, Filippo Terracciano has just played his second Serie A match with Milan, over two months after the first, and writes in English on Instagram: “Patience is one of the most valuable skill a human being must master”. Translated: patience is one of the most precious qualities that a human being must know how to govern. Rafa Leao answers him in Italian: “Exactly”. Seven months later, the unforeseeable: Leao is about to go to the bench for the third time in four games and that phrase about patience could come in handy for him. Terracciano, on the other hand, is ready for the third consecutive championship match from the first minute. There is something new: he is the favorite to play on the right, not on the left.
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Fonseca will send Emerson Royal to the bench for some rest ahead of Real Madrid and between the two alternatives – Calabria and Terracciano – he is ready to choose Filippo, who can play on the right or left. Calabria has yet to play the first minutes after his left calf injury, but the choice is not trivial. The issue, with Terracciano, doesn’t seem so much horizontal (from flank to flank) as vertical: in Verona he played further forward, attacked more, while at Milan he does so less, due to the level of his teammates and Fonseca’s requests. To talk about him, therefore, we need to go back to those two winter appearances. Terracciano arrived at Milan in January and Pioli immediately sent him onto the pitch, on 27 January, to defend the 2-1 win at San Siro against Bologna. That time too, he played on the right. It went terribly: penalty foul on Kristiansen and Orsolini equalised. Pioli commented later: “He suffered the impact, the importance of San Siro”. This is why his path is encouraging.
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That difficult time is behind us. Terracciano has now become familiar with Milan and in the summer other teams were interested in him. Como above all, then Bologna and Fiorentina. Nothing happened, Filippo remained at Milan and overtook Jimenez for the role of deputy to Hernandez: when Theo was out due to suspension, he played. Now he’s calmer, he feels the confidence and at 21 it’s a great thing. And then Monza-Milan for him is a somewhat special match due to a mix of stories between fathers and sons. Father Antonio Terracciano, A footballer with Verona, was assistant coach for a season at the end of his career. Where? At Monza. And then Filippo has always said that he has Nesta and Maldini as his myths. You already know who Monza’s coach and attacking midfielder are.
