Stefano Pioli arrived in football’s promised land a few months ago and celebrated the first Scudetto of his coaching career with Milan. This year he is aiming for a repeat with the Rossoneri in a season when many sides have entered strongly in the struggle for the Serie A title.

On Saturday afternoon (08/10, 19:00, COSMOTE SPORT 3 HD, LIVE by Sportish), the Italian champions will play a key game on their way to get even closer to the top by hosting Juventus Turin and the “Gazzetta dello Sport” for it care takes an anthropocentric approach to said derby and sheds light on a story unfamiliar to many people.

Starring Pioli, the Rossoneri’s 56-year-old coach meets Juventus at the San Siro, the only side of the three traditional Calcio powers in which he played as a footballer and who had “injured” him at a very young age , when he was robbed of his dream of wearing his lover’s jersey… Inter.

“Pioli was one of the most promising defenders of the 1980s, scoring the winning goal in a Serie D match between Parma and Sanremo in 1984 that helped the Ducale rise to Serie C1.

In the summer of the same year, Parma had agreed to sell Pioli to Inter, but during his trip to Milan, the current Milan manager was told the destination would change and he was going to Juventus.reports the “Gazzetta dello Sport” in a related retro topic that they made about Stefanos Pioli, to then give the whole juicy reportage of this crazy story:

“Giovanni Trapattoni and Gabiero Boniperti were very keen on Pioli and made Parma a better offer which left the player disappointed after dreaming of playing for Inter as he was a Nerazzurri fan at the time.

On the day Pioli left Parma for Inter, he traveled to Milan in a car, accompanied by his father Pasqualino and Parma’s sporting director Riccardo Soliano.

The latter stopped at a gas station near Fiorenzuola and said he had to make a phone call. Returning from the phone box to the car, he had a big smile on his face and told the Pioli family that Juventus had offered Parma almost £1bn (£996m to be precise) so the target would change.

Pioli and his father were so distraught they didn’t speak a word during the trip to Turin, yet the current AC Milan manager played in Turin for three years and shared the Juventus dressing room with some of the best players of the era such as Paolo Rossi and Michel Platini”reports the said medium.

It should be noted that the current Milan coach not only played in the black and white jersey for three years, but also won four titles with the Vecchia Signora: Italian League, Champions Cup, European Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup.