Adriano Galliani ran AC Milan for years and had Ronaldo and Ronaldinho under the same roof. Today he remembers them with a smile.
According to the former CEO, before matches both were “the epitome of laziness”. Ronaldo ate heartily and followed no diet, despite his weight gain.
Ronaldinho, for his part, didn’t even know which team they would be playing that night. It seemed like the perfect recipe for disaster, but the pitch told a different story.
“Everyone knows how the story ended”, Galliani said: they were “absolutely incredible and unstoppable”.
No spreadsheets or painstaking routines. Two geniuses who, in their own way, made the impossible seem easy. Pure talent or football’s greatest secret?