Boban: Milan President ‘should never be in football’ | OneFootball

Milan legend Zvonimir Boban released an explosive interview where he strongly criticised the club management and even said President Paolo Scaroni ‘should never be in football.’

Boban is not just a former Milan star and 1994 Champions League winner with the Rossoneri, but also worked as a club director for a few months in 2020.

It was under the Elliott management, but the club president was the same as today, Scaroni.

Safe to say that Boban wasn’t exactly on good terms with the 78-year-old.

“A person who should never be in football. He has nothing to do with football,” Boban told  Longoni’s YouTube channel ‘Milan Hello’ via SempreMilan.

“But you know, certain people, because of the power they have had and the positions they have had, have never really asked themselves deeply.

“They have never created that spiritual structure to ask themselves: is it right for me to go there? Because obviously it goes towards interests. But Milan?… He has nothing to do with Milan. Even though he is still a great manager, he has had great successes.

MILAN, ITALY – JANUARY 14: Paolo Scaroni, President of AC Milan looks on prior to the Serie A TIM match between AC Milan and AS Roma – Serie A TIM at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on January 14, 2024 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)

“I have not followed his life just as he has not followed mine. Once we had to go to Lega Calcio and he couldn’t,” Boban continued.

“We were at the stadium, I was addressing him formally because I was keeping him quite distant.

“Maldini says to him: ‘Paolo, for Zvone this has been his bread and butter in recent years, he has been involved in the institutions, he knows the League, he knows how to do these things’.

“Then I also had these duties of representation in the contract, but I didn’t care because we had to sort out other things. And Scaroni says: ‘Ok, then send me your CV…’ (laughs).

“I told him to go to hell and threw him out of the office. I said to him: ‘What the f*** are you doing in football?’. He said to me: ‘Why should I know what you’ve done in life?’. Okay (laughs). You don’t have to, but then I don’t have to respect you either.

“But he said it in a natural way, not even realising it in my opinion. It’s not that I got angry afterwards, but at the time I reacted by taking him and throwing him out of the office. That’s what I think of Scaroni.”

Boban also crossed paths with Giorgio Furlani, who was on the board of directors from 2018 to 2022, when he was appointed club CEO.

REGGIO NELL’EMILIA, ITALY – APRIL 14: Giorgio Furlani CEO of AC Milan looks on prior to the Serie A TIM match between US Sassuolo and AC Milan at Mapei Stadium – Citta’ del Tricolore on April 14, 2024 in Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)

“Giorgio Furlani is a Milan fan, a true Milan fan. But in his own way. He was built differently. He was a mathematician, a businessman for a fund and that is his way of seeing things, he is not able to distinguish well what Milan represents for us,” Boban said.

“But he has supported the club all his life, I have known him before and it is not up for discussion. Then he has his bosses to whom he answers religiously, forgetting about passion, sport, football, everything that is belonging, all the other values ​​that are Milan for all the normal people who love Milan.

“You don’t get it there, he is just a square manager and that’s it. He doesn’t know how to play football, what skills does Giorgio Furlani have to play football? And that’s normal. He should surround himself with people who understand football. Someone who understood so much sent him away,” Boban continued.

“He should also have asked himself questions, understood what is good for Milan and that Maldini and Massara were good for Milan. It was technical protection, not to mention the representation of the symbolism that Paolo in he carries himself.

“I blame him more for that than the fact that he knows or doesn’t know… he doesn’t know. And he thinks that Moncada knows everything. That’s the fact. Because scouting is enough for him to understand everything.”

Milan play in the Coppa Italia Final tonight, meeting Bologna at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

The Rossoneri have already won the Supercoppa Italiana in January and are aiming for their second trophy this season, allowing them to play in the Europa League next season.

Milan currently sit 8th in the Serie A table, outside a European placement.