Podcast • Milan's Reality Show

This season has been filled with so much drama, it feels like a reality show. Huge wins, painful losses, changes in players and managers, and now there is a search for Milan's Next Top Sporting Director. To sort all this out, I invited Paul, the President of  Milan Club Adelaide, to tell us what it is like to be a Milan fan in Australia, and what it was like to have the club come to Australia last summer, including that amazing coreo, (spoiler alert: we find out who the awesome Zia was who was sewing the coreo and also the brains behind it!!) We also spent plenty of time discussing everything happening at the club right now, including the first team, Conceição, Milan Futuro, Milan Primavera, and the management.

Fans in Adelaide know what it is to be Milan fans.

On this Episode: 

• Milan Origin Story

• Milan Club Adelaide

• Milan in Australia

• Injury Update

• First Team Recent Matches

• Comparing Coaches

• Milan Futuro Update

• Milan Primavera Update

• Milan's Next Top Sporting Director

• Upcoming Matches

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Thanks once again to Paul, for telling us all about Milan Club Adelaide, the adventures of Milan in Australia, and talking about everything going on at Milan now, too. Please follow Paul on Instagram, follow Milan Club Adelaide on Instagram and Facebook, check out the club's website milanclubadelaide.com.au and also follow Milanisti Down Under to get the news on their upcoming podcasts, too.

You can find Elaine on BlueSky, Instagram, Threads, and Twitter to keep up with news and new posts or generally find out if she is surviving Milan's crisis or not.

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Venezia-Milan Preview: Sink or Swim

After a huge win on Wednesday against Inter, Milan are traveling to Venezia to try to keep their winning ways. Although the Serie A season has been disastrous, and the big focus is on the Coppa Italia Final on May 14th in Rome, the team still want to win and finish the season well. Consistency has been completely elusive all year, but now that the new players and Conceição have been at the club for three or four months, and had a few full weeks to train all together, it seems like it is time to sink or swim.

We need to keep the winning momentum.

Venezia are struggling to avoid relegation, they come into this match in 18th place. Their most recent match was a 2-2 draw with 19th place Empoli on Sunday. For that match, Di Francesco lined up a 3-5-2 with: THE Radu (of our Scudetto fame); Marcandalli, Idzes, Candé; Zerbin, Kike Pérez, Nicolussi Cavaglia, Soumbia, Ellertsson; Busio, and Gytkjær. Di Francesco will be missing Svoboda, Sagrado, and Ellertsson to injury, while Stanković is uncertain due to fitness concerns.

Di Francesco's side are struggling, but never count his side out.

Conceição has Walker fit for this one, and Gabbia is a late callup, despite injuring his neck in the Derby on Wednesday. So Emerson Royal is the only player missing due to injury. Milan are still five points behind Fiorentina, six behind Roma, and eight behind sixth place Lazio, so every point matters, and we will have to hope for some other results to go our way in order to improve our position on the table. 

This has been a strange week for everyone, as the loss of Pope Francis impacted Conceição and many of the players, and also made a lot of changes to many of the football matches in Italy. This match is going ahead as scheduled, but the lunchtime fixture has proven to be tricky for Milan in the past. 

The players honor Pope Francis ahead of the midweek Derby.

With Venezia desperate for points for their salvation, and Milan players tired and possibly still emotionally recovering from their amazing feat on Wednesday, this match could prove dangerous. It will take everyone's full focus to take all three points. It's time for Milan to sink or swim.

Our next matches are:

Serie A Week 35

Venezia vs. AC Milan

Sunday, April 27, 2025 • 12:30 CET (6:30am EDT)

In the U.S., this match can be streamed on Paramount+,

or use a VPN to access better coverage

Serie C Week 38

Milan Futuro vs. Vis Pesaro

Sunday, April 27, 2025 • 16:30 CET (10:30am EDT)

This match is not being televised in the U.S.

Campionato Primavera 1 Week 35

Lazio Primavera vs. Milan Primavera

Monday, April 28, 2025 • 16:00 CET (10:00am EDT)

This match is not being televised in the U.S.