AC Milan and Monza will honour Silvio Berlusconi with an annual pleasant named after their deceased former proprietor, the 2 Serie A groups introduced on Thursday.
In a joint assertion, the golf equipment mentioned that the primary version of the Silvio Berlusconi Trophy can be held at Monza’s U-Energy Stadium on August 8, with the match switching venues every year.
“The initiative goals to honour and maintain alive the reminiscence of president Silvio Berlusconi, who wrote indelible pages in each golf equipment’ histories,” the golf equipment mentioned.
Former Italian prime minister and media mogul Berlusconi, who died final month aged 86, was a particularly divisive determine within the nation’s political and cultural spheres.
However his huge success as a membership proprietor earned him the admiration of legions of followers.
He reigned supreme at Milan from 1986 till 2017, shopping for an ailing membership on the point of chapter and turning them into titans of the European sport.
Throughout his time on the San Siro, Milan received 29 trophies, together with 5 Champions League and eight Serie A titles.
After promoting Milan for €740 million, he picked up Monza, then within the third tier, for a relative track in 2018 via his holding firm Fininvest and alongside longtime ally Adriano Galliani took them as much as Serie A.
Monza completed eleventh final season, their first ever within the prime flight of Italian soccer, however Berlusconi’s demise has led to hypothesis that Fininvest might promote the membership.
On Thursday, Berlusconi’s eldest son Pier Silvio mentioned “we kids will discover a technique to finest maintain dad’s dream alive,” including that Galliani can be “on the centre” of the membership’s future.
Sources instructed AFP on Thursday that Pier Silvio and his sister Marina Berlusconi would take joint management of Fininvest following the studying of his will.
The pair, who’re kids of Silvio Berlusconi’s first spouse Carla Dall’Oglio and till now held 7.65% in Finivest, will, in keeping with the supply, improve their joint stake to 53%.
Since 2005, Marina Berlusconi has been president of Fininvest, which controls a myriad of firms, together with the MediaForEurope (ex-Mediaset) tv group, Mondadori publishing home and the Mediolanum financial institution.
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