Former AC Milan player Mattia De Sciglio, currently full-back at Juventus, granted a lengthy interview to those at 'Cronache di Spogliatoio" and discussed multiple topics, one of which is his experience with the red and black faithful:
"The break with Montella? I raise my head and see the number 2 on the overhead projector. My number. 'De Sciglio, De Sciglio comes out", I hear shouts. I don't have much time to realise because at that precise moment 70,000 people start whistling. I was fed to the lions. That was the beginning of the end. The situation was already compromised, but at that precise moment the water overflowed from the jar and became gasoline on the fire. I reach my parents in the garage of the stadium where they are waiting for me to go home. I get in the car and we take the exit tunnel. There is a bit of a queue, my father brakes and starts again. A fan, with a beer in his hand and who knows how many other drinks before, approaches and shouts: 'Here is De Sciglio'. He begins to insult me, a crowd of people is created. My father gets out of the car and tries to calm them down, to make them understand that you can't mortify a person. Nothing, they start pushing. At that point I didn't see any more. Dark, all black.I got out and made the mistake of reacting. I couldn't keep all the negative emotions I was experiencing inside. I was wrong, but I had seen my parents pulled into this story. Terrible."
De Sciglio on his experience with Milan overall:
"At Milan I lived wonderful moments, one after the other, that had filled my heart. Nobody prepares you for the abyss. I started to have physical problems that affected me. I didn't have any serious problems, everyone stops for a few weeks. But I come back and then two games later, I'd stop again. The criticisms of the press and the fans started. They hurt me. I was locked up in the house. I was living in a whirlwind of negative thoughts, where I felt at fault even going to dinner with my fiancée in the middle of the week, or taking my mother out. I lacked happiness. I was struggling to smile. I was told that I have come close to depression, a condition which nobody notices when they enter it. I learned to work with my head through a long journey that has allowed me to understand who I really am..."
