AC Milan are working with the authorities to reach a solution for its ultras, Curva Sud, so that organised support can return to San Siro as soon as possible.
The silence at San Siro has been deafening in recent weeks, as a result of the Curva Sud’s protests against the authorities and Milan. We wrote a bonus article on the matter a few weeks back, echoing what many others have said: ultras have to be allowed to be ultras.
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It seems Milan have understood this as well, at least based on the latest reports from MilanNews’ Pietro Mazzara. Indeed, the Rossoneri have now intensified contacts with the authorities to find a solution for organised support.
Contacts underway
As, sadly, confirmed by Curva Sud’s statement yesterday, the situation has only worsened over the last few weeks. Milan’s contacts with the authorities are thus very important as their words weigh heavily, rather than it coming from the Ultras themselves.
The Rossoneri’s goal is to ‘regain organised and coordinated support’ during the games at San Siro, while also ‘respecting the rules and the community’. Some compromises will have to be made on both ends, and although it remains complex, there is some optimism.
As Mazzara concludes, every single individual at Milan – from the owners to the management and the players – wants the Curva Sud to return. They know just how important the Ultras are and in the top-four pursuit, they are needed.
Bonus article, lol. Someone really pays to ready some copy paste translate articles? 99.9% of the content here is not original.
*read. I was shocked.
Admittedly, I’ve never attended a game at San Siro, so I have no frame of reference. But I don’t understand how the crack down on fans in one section can affect all the other fans. How many seats/fans are we talking about in Curva Sud, 1000? It’s a 70,000 seat arena. Do no other fans know the songs and cheers? This would never happen at an NFL Football game. If one section was empty, the rest of the stadium would still be rocking. Can someone please explain this?
I’ve been their for 2 games, and the curva is very loud and boisterous. They organize the whole crowd in the stadium shutting out the away supporters, it really does feel like the 12th man on the field. They got louder as the game went or after a chance creation, or a goal. Was the best game I’ve ever been too.
I’m not familiar with NFL but I was under the impression that you usually have an organised support in the form of mascots, cheerleaders and other official channels whereas European football has a very active community driven support that’s basically the core of all support. If they aren’t present it definitely makes an extreme difference and they’re a lot more than 1,000 people. Their impact isn’t isolated to any single section either, they’re basically the ones who encourage and make 50,000+ people join in on the action so their absence effects the whole arena.
Keep in mind that Milan is a global brand as well which amplifies it further seeing as a large part of those 70,000 seats are occupied by people who don’t speak Italian, who aren’t familiar with the chants and who might not even be familiar with football at all.
Thank you so much for that explanation! You are correct about the mascots and cheerleaders, but except for admiring the cheerleaders boobs, both are basically ignored by the fan base. Most of the cheers are spontaneous (and obscene 😀)from the crowd.
Milan’s world wide fan base and the lack of Italian-fluent fans makes a lot of sense about the influence and need for Curva Sud!