Ciao Maldini – Il Grande Capitano
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With his soft face yet to feel the touch of a blade
Cesare’s young stallion learnt he had just made the grade
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Fledgling sixteen he took to the splendid stage
In the days when skinny shorts were still all the rage
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Whilst steel solid Berlin’s wall was still to be laid
Capitano Maldini was a mere junior grade
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Barring a lengthy lay off through critical injury
San Paolo would serve a quarter century
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And if the memory banks are murky and hazy
Who remembers a certain debut at Udinese?
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Audacious and intrepid, he played to the libretto
Secured in eighty seven the foremost Scudetto
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Formidable, he hit with the force of a Tsunami
Sharp lessons from Bergomi, Tassotti, Baresi
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Honing defensive art aside the games best
“Piscinin’s” brutal streak which strikers would detest
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Miracle defensive bond with Franco Baresi
Five Champions league wins, and seven Scudetti
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Super Cups, Club World Cup, the Coppa Italia
Global acclaim from Rome to Santa Maria
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First defender to lift FIFA’s World Player
Whilst Zoff’s record shattered on a wing and a prayer
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Be it central or left, daily the legend would grow
Soon sharing Euro final’s with “Paco” Gento
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Azurri caps also led to the top of the heap
Sour end with Ahn Jung Hwan’s frog like leap
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Maldini Junior strutted catwalks looking very dapper
Yes Milano’s heartbeat had long surpassed Il papa
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And yet stood in the arena where it all began
The greatest defender ever ill treated by his clan
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San Siro swansong where Seventy thousand cheered
Whilst reminiscing Istanbul some five hundred jeered
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To disregard quite simply a world revered icon
Even his old partner intervened thereupon
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Not much left out with Franco’s wise address
He said, “He deserves more and they much less”
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Now will it be Puyol or maybe Inter’s Santon?
Another Maldini ushered in, make way for Christian
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Adventures aplenty, most with the Rossoneri
Into the sunset he rides roaring Arrivederci
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Number 7
© Emdad Rahman
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