
Silvio Berlusconi will also be remembered for his jokes. Many times when he changed the atmosphere with one sentence, while some former colleagues (players and managers) have remembered him with anecdotes from special moments.
STEFAN EL SHARAUI - "Every time I wrote, I was waiting for the next day's phone call. The president was the man who asked me most often to cut the crest".
SEBASTIANO ROSI (former goalkeeper) – “Once, we had just won one of the five championships, but I don't remember which one. He opened the dressing room door to celebrate and I worked up the nerve to douse him with champagne. In that case, he didn't say anything to me, but if it had been a different situation, he wouldn't have missed to remind me where I came from and who I was."
ALESANDRO KOSTAKURTA (former defender) – "One of his first requests was to give up our girlfriends and this was one of the reasons for the clash with Berlusconi. In the end, we realized that he was right, as he was when he claimed from us that we committed, which seemed absurd, but it was not like that".
TIAGO SILVA (defender) – "We met Berlusconi the day before a derby against Inter. A player in the squad had a party that week and Silvio came to 'Milanello'. We thought it was all over, but he turned to our team-mate and said 'if you don't invite me to the party next time, I'll kick you out of Milan'. And you know how it went? The next day… we won the derby!”
XHENARO GATUZO (trajner) – “Nuk ishte president dhe unë e drejtoja Milanin. Ai donte Suson si sulmues dhe më telefononte çdo ditë duke më sharë dhe më thoshte se nuk kuptoja asgjë. I shpjegova arsyet pse e doja spanjollin që të luante në të djathtë. Asokohe ai bënte diferencën në atë rol. Në ato dy vite Berluskoni ma ka nxirë jetën, siç bëri kur u grinda me Xho Xhordanin. Edhe në atë rast më kujtoi edukatën dhe ekipin që përfaqësoja. U ndjeva vërtetë një njeri i vogël shumë”.
ROBERTO DONADONI (coach) - "I was visiting his house and I was admiring the collection of paintings he had. Berlusconi knew I didn't score much and probably thought he could shake them up when he promised me a picture in case of a goal. So I scored in the next match and a day later a courier came to my house. He kept his word in that case. There were other cases when the courier came, even though I had not registered".
UMBERTO GANDINI (former manager) – "When we got Fernando Torres, Berlusconi called me every day. He did not ask the striker himself not to charge him, but he advised me that the Spaniard should not miss anything. His dogma was that the players of Milan should not have any preoccupation".