The scenes at the end of Milan-Parma this afternoon should have been pure celebration after the comeback win, and yet a spat has dominated the headlines.
La Gazzetta dello Sport begin their report by recalling what happened after the full-time whistle in the 3-2 victory for Milan. Sergio Conceiçao chased Davide Calabria who was about 20 yards away and almost put his hands on him.
In fact, Conceiçao who would put his hands on Calabria (one of his players and the former captain of Milan) if his staff did not intervene to separate them. Rather than going to join the team who were jubilant, the coach wanted to settle a score with the right-back, and players had to get involved too.
The report puts forward a first hypothesis, while waiting for further information. Conceicao’s fury could have something to do with Calabria going to Lazza’s concert on Friday night in Milan, a day and a half before the match. Certainly, that trip did not please Conceiçao.
Theo Hernandez (also substituted), Francesco Camarda (did not come on, while Luka Jovic did) and Ruben Loftus-Cheek (injured) were also at the concert. More will come out even if both Conceicao and Calabria have downplayed the incident, but the anger from both cannot be ignored.
We must add that it is unlikely that going to a concert was what provoked that reaction at that moment, but perhaps something the defender said after coming off or after the full-time whistle aroused anger that was already within the ex-Porto boss.
Conceiçao is not afraid to do what he feels is best. At half-time he brought off Theo and Leao and argued with Calabria publicly at full-time, after having previously being very willing to criticise the attitude of the team.
The new rigid rules put in place by the Portuguese are nothing new, but never before has there been such a visible clash during a match. It is hopefully not a sign of more volcanic eruptions to come.
nothing wrong with what he did. Sure could’ve avoided but Calabria is no top player that he is exempt from any kinds of rules set within the team. He performs quite average can’t defend can’t cross well and then be animated with the coach.
It all started with the substitution. Calabria came out furious. He complained, kicked a billboard, then some bottles: one of them ended up on the pitch, and Conceiçao himself went to pick it up in a huff. At that moment he didn’t react, but he didn’t forget.
It was reported by Repubblica
This is hollywood cardinale milan. New drama to be famous. Who will win? The captain vs the new coach
Going to party Is definitely not the issue
Kicking bottles around is not supposed to be a sign of disrespect for the coach; the player may have felt he could still contribute to the game. Other coaches handled it way better. I have heard a coach say that if a player shows no reaction to being subbed, then he would be surprised, as it would show that he had no passion to contribute to the game. That would have ended it.
Going to confront your player 20 yards away from you for an incident that happened during the game when you would still meet the player in the dressing room is lame, unprofessional, and immature. As coach, he cannot blame his hothead always. This show of shame is as bad as the Theao mutiny at a cooling break.
Woow, you must be some politician. Why don’t you just coach our team since you how to behave and handle the dressing room better
You’re a Stupid boy
It’s a sign of disrespect….coaches only downplay such actions as a means to keep the team intact trying so hard to avoid rebellion amongst the lad if he had to respond the way an adult will deal with disrespect irrespective of the players earnings n caliber so don’t make his actions looks normal, those sitting down or been benched deserves to play too n kick the entire stadium not only cans.
I can read lips; I know exactly what happened.
Conceição said to Calabria: “I like pineapple on my pizza!”
Calabria replied: “That’s disgusting! Heresy! I won’t stand for that! Take it back!”
Conceição: “I will not take it back. I can eat whatever topping I freaking want on my pizza!”
Calabria: “Go back to Portugal! You can’t come to Italy and eat pineapple on pizza!”
Conceição: “You xenophobic and arrogant Italian! Pineapple on pizza is delicious!”
Calabria: “Come here and say it again to my face; I’ll rearrange your face so that you never eat pineapple on pizza again!”
Conceição runs after Calabria. Pavlovic pulls Calabria back. A staff person and Theo pull Conceição back.
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It’s amazing, Pavlovic was not only my MOTM working hard both on defense and offense, but after the game even had the energy to play security guard! Great Pavlovic! Epic! That’s just like Giroud playing goalkeeper!
After today, if Pavlovic is sold, the managers need to be committed to a psychiatric hospital and forced to eat pizza with pineapple every meal.
Made my day 🤣🤣🤣
👍👍👍 comment of the day
bravo 😂👏👏👏
Sounds about right is the equivalent of breaking spaghetti
🤣🤣🤣
Diduga he say: Hey coach di merda punta.
You want to cry about Pavlovic who has done nothing for this club and insult our country and our captain who has actually brought us our first Scudetto in 10 years in which he was a very important player? And then you wonder why Lazio, Inter and Verona supporters are the way they are.
Relax. Don’t you see it was humor? In my ratings post I said Conceição was unprofessional by reacting the way he did. By the way, Calabria was unprofessional too and I said that; that’s just a fact.
Calabria did not have moral discipline like all past captain, we need discipline player, any player that did not perform to the coach expectation should be omit/exclude, we need winning team and determine player, in this I support the coach
Maldinis Heir probably crashed out when he saw Calabria and Conceicao get into it.
I’d rather have fighting than apathy. Though one wonders what Conceicao would have done had he not been restrained. At least with Conceicao you don’t have to wonder what he’s thinking. At Porto he clashed with Bruno Costa over perceived lack of effort and sent him down to the B team.
He’s a volatile guy. If he controls the fire, like fire in a fireplace, it will be useful for this team, which tends to need regular kicks to the ass. But he probably needs to dial it back just a notch or two so some out-of-control incident doesn’t result in his end. I prefer him to cold-fish Fonseca.
I would bet this has something to do with Calabria saying something on Parma’s second goal with Milan conceding 3 min after his substitution.
Yeah, I also think it was about that.
What did he say? Coach di merda?
You can’t do $hit like that on the field. I dont care what Calabria said. You wait ‘till your get to the locker room then you hash it out. This isn’t some provincial side. This is Milan. What is happening?! I was shocked to see it.
We only see conceicao running towards him but we don’t see what Calabria had said before or during. At the end of the day it was stupid. But Calabria should be showing respect to the coach and from what’s out there he did anything but that. We know too that conceicao has a short temper and it was an ugly situation. But even Calabria bringing up personal issues as a reason goes to show he was in the wrong. It definitely should have been handled better and in the dressing room.
Honestly it wasn’t very professonal he she have done it behind closed doors.
But it is time Theo, Calabria and Leoa are sold.
We should cash while still can.
Quite frankly Calabria made some very important tackles today so I wouldnt really put a finger on his performance but neither Him or Conceiçao should instigate an open attack on eachother, Both should be above that.
Ha ha ha
This club is one big mess, that’s what’s going on. Cardinale managed to tear down in one and a half season what Elliott with Maldini built in 3 years.
And before anyone says it’s not ownership, it’s management. Cardinale is the shot caller. He named these clowns as his executives and they work according to his instructions. Furlani said, they needed to fire Maldini in order for Gerry’s vision to come true.
Here it is, Gerry’s Milan. Well done yank. Well done.
When it rains it pours.
The only people who support Conceicao in this are the people who come from chaos like African countries and the middle east. Then people wonder why Roma, Lazio, Hellas, and Inter supporters are the way they are. Conceicao can wait for the locker room, this isn’t Sintra, Cascais or Mafra. You can leave that behaviour at the door. If no one else is being professional the coach has to at least be professional, he’s showing the same rubbish he did at Porto, where he made up stuff saying Arterta insulted his family and tried to fight him. He needs to get his head checked, we don’t need a loose cannon now. Acting like someone from Napoli.
oh we’ve got some racial prince here.. I wonder who made those chaos in Africa and middle east are.. learn some histories and you will find the truth.. well, aside from that.. I still support the coach, he and fonseca tries to sort things out of these messy squads behaviors, which is quite unacceptable for Milan standard. while I agree this should be behind the closed doors but I also understand the frustration that the coach has with these squads.. I as a fan feels painful to watch Milan match lately..
Mohamed did that!
The false pr*phet!
I have been milan fan since I know footbal (maybe since 1993) but I never see or hear something like this happen before! So, it must be the coach! He doesn’t know and have no respect to ac milan culture! He didn’t even pay respect to the fan who came to the stadium to support the club by doing that stupid behaviour!