AC Milan will bring down the curtain on the 2023-24 season today when they play in a rare post-season friendly against Roma, and it will be Olivier Giroud’s actual last game for the club.
Of course the campaign officially ended last weekend with the 3-3 draw at home against Salernitana at San Siro which concluded the Serie A season and gave fans a chance to bid farewell to Giroud, Simon Kjaer and Stefano Pioli.
This morning’s edition of Tuttosport (via PianetaMilan) reports how Milan will face off against Roma at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia with a kick-off time of 13:00 CEST, with around 60,000 tickets having been sold.
Daniele Bonera will act as a sort of interim coach for the Rossoneri, while his counterpart Daniele De Rossi will be in the other dug out. Both should field the best teams available for the occasion, obviously considering the players at their disposal.
In the Milan line-up it should be Giroud who makes his last appearance ever with the red and black shirt. Noah Okafor will also start, given the unavailability of Rafael Leão. For Roma, it is looking like a possible attacking trident made up of Paulo Dybala, Tammy Abraham and Tommaso Baldanzi.
Yesterday, meanwhile, the legends of the two clubs met, including Franco Baresi, Daniele Massaro, Serginho, David Pizarro and Max Tonetto.
Off topic: What happened with Baresi?! He has been kicked out too? I just realized we never heard anything about him
He usual stays out of the limelight and runnings of the club. He’s not very vocal about decisions made by the club and does get into that sort of mix.
And what’s the point? He had a great farewell at San Siro, he is old and in a couple of days he will no longer be part of the team.
Let young ones play and give them a chance to integrate with team.
You don’t understand business. Marketing is part of football. People are curious about Giroud, he represents the club well. An impeccable professional on and off the field. More people go to the game than to a Taylor Swift concert. Sorry to see Giroud go, he should have finished here.
Yeah we are competing with Taylor Swift now. Not Inter, not Juventus: Taylor Swift. Entertainment at its finest. Jerry turning one of the biggest football clubs in the world into a circus à la Disneyland. Che vergogna…
If you are looking for a way to watch this.
It is being televised on a local free to air network here in Australia.
They will in turn have it on their free streaming service called 7plus .com .au
Free to register. But you may need an Australian ip via VPN.