The situation between Milan and the Curva Sud has by now become a subject of contention and of great topical relevance in recent days. After witnessing a Milan–Bari match unfortunately deprived of the incessant warmth of the organized Rossoneri support, the first verdicts are already beginning to be hypothesized in the background. What will become of the Sud? Will Milan be willing to negotiate in an attempt to find solutions also with the Prosecutor’s Office? And above all: will the chants of the curva return to the stadium? As of today, the situation does not seem to bring immediate news, even if the APA (Association of Small Shareholders of AC Milan) has tried to draw concrete conclusions with a statement.
Here's the APA statement:
"The recent events, judicial and disciplinary, that have concerned the management of Milan and the Ultras of the Curva Sud constitute a further reason for reflection for the Small Shareholders of the Club and for all Rossoneri supporters. All the more so after the season opener at San Siro and the “lunar” atmosphere that characterized the presence of 65,000 (fans?) who, in addition to 5,000 Bari supporters, filled the stadium. As is known, after the two first-degree convictions handed down to the leaders of the Curva, the club now does not intend to recognize any role for the Ultras in the organization of the support, starting with preventing them from the cumulative management of season tickets in their traditional sector of the stadium and prohibiting the display of the historic banners. Many of its other exponents have also been subjected to personal measures restricting access to San Siro, due to the protests that they are said to have promoted against the club’s top management at the end of last season.
The most evident characteristic of this story is the great hypocrisy that entirely permeates it, for a long time now, on the part of all those involved. The thousands of Ultras of the Curva for years chose, or allowed themselves to have imposed upon them, leaders with criminal records, always involved in illicit activities that have nothing to do with sporting passion and who used the availability to violence of their “troops” as a tool of intimidation. When this emerged to such an extent as to provoke the intervention of the judiciary, and the consequent convictions, albeit not final, the choice was not to distance themselves, to disassociate and renew their representation and leadership, but rather to deny the evidence and the investigative findings, to show unconditional solidarity and demand acquittal and release of the accused, victims of judicial persecution.
Accused of being a “militia,” the Ultras, whether complicit, or poorly advised, appeared outside the courtroom, awaiting the verdict, in a kind of black-bloc uniform and in military formation. It is obvious that, in this way, they made easy the task of those in the Club who were waiting for nothing else in order to settle accounts, after last season’s demonstrations of dissent. Because what happened was indeed a settling of scores. Milan has always known perfectly well by whom, how, and for what purposes, not only sporting, the Ultras were directed. And it always turned the other way. Nor did it prevent them, for example, from using AIMC as a channel to facilitate “the second market” of season tickets and match tickets. Only when the Public Prosecutor’s Office demanded a stop to concessions that were being used to finance an organization led by a group of convicted criminals, again under investigation for very serious crimes (as demonstrated by the severity of the sentences imposed by the Court), did Milan pull the plug. But for years the Associazione Italiana Milan Club, also governed in a wholly non-transparent manner, came to terms with them. And for years the Club’s Supporter Liaison Officer evidently slept or was watching another film (as shown by the fact that the defense of the accused Ultras repeatedly called him to testify on their behalf).
In this context, just as it had previously done by not deliberating on the approval of about 250 APA members who are assignees of Milan shares, the Club’s leadership has decided to take advantage of the situation to deal an indiscriminate blow against all Ultras and to even more easily pursue its perverse plan. Supporters who become customers, buyers of shirts in the colors of Portugal and with the crests of Lanerossi Vicenza or Ascoli, collectors of bad taste and devoid of any real spirit of belonging. Passionate Milanisti who are being replaced in the stands by tourists with “all inclusive” packages complete with the “San Siro experience” and who certainly would not dream of inviting Cardinale, Scaroni, and Furlani to go do something else.
Spectators devoid of any capacity for analysis and always satisfied with a modest performance put on by a team that claims to aspire only to fourth place and whose players all have a price at which they can be sold, in the name of economic sustainability that prevails over any sporting ambition. A pathetic network of courtiers who in the press and on social media continue to give credit to this ownership, without realizing that there is an ongoing scientific program of ethnic and genetic substitution of Rossoneri passion. So much for “Furlani is a Milanista, though” and “we are on the right track”! We can only hope that with certain choices running counter to the recent past (a coach with clear ideas and “ready”; a real sporting director) one might attempt the reconstruction of a Milan at least worthy of the name; and that the signings in the last transfer market allow us a season in which we reconcile with the game and the results. But knowing that none of this interests our ownership in the slightest, whose priorities are entirely different.
A serious club would sit down at the table with what remains (probably the best part) of the Curva. It would explain what can no longer be tolerated. It would recognize the irreplaceable role of the Ultras in the support at the stadium. The Curva, for its part, should guarantee that what has happened will not be repeated, starting with its attitude toward the use of violence and its disinterest in any activity other than its unsurpassable display of sporting passion. And a serious agreement would be found, in respect of the laws and of the best Rossoneri culture. But this is possible only if the parties seriously demonstrate, beyond slogans and empty statements of principle, that their first interest is the good of Milan, and not their own gain.
Milan, August 19, 2025
The Board of Directors of APA Milan"
