The new course of Milan starts badly, with two historical flags like Paolo Maldini and Zvonimir Boban to lead the technical area of the company of the South African CEO and general manager Ivan Gazidis. The news of the exclusion of the AC Milan club from European competitions for the 2019/2020 season was expected but now it's official: the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) announced it. Milan will therefore make a clean slate, and all in all the news is not a bad one: a year to start again, to make the market without the hassle of the rigid Uefa parameters and to concentrate on the championship, perhaps hitting the qualification for the 2020-2021 Champions League. A qualification, the one for the top European club competition (which Milan won 7 times), which the Diavolo hasn't had since 2013 (the last participation was the 2013-2014 season, eliminated in the round of XNUMX by Atletico Madrid, then a finalist): the The objective is to re-center them after a year in purgatory, to also give time to the new coach Marco Giampaolo to shape the team of the future.
Milan should have participated in the group stage of the Europa League, by virtue of the fifth place conquered in the last championship, moreover coming close to the fourth which would have earned the Champions League (at one point Gennaro Gattuso's men were even third). Now, after the decision by the CAS, Roma (which not coincidentally canceled the premature withdrawal of Pinzolo, initially scheduled to prepare for the preliminaries at the end of July) and Lazio qualify directly for the Europa League groups, while accessing the preliminary phase is the Turin.
