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Friday October 2, 2009

Leonardo gets dreaded vote of confidence

MILAN: Following AC Milan’s embarrassing 1-0 home defeat to Swiss minnows FC Zurich in the Champions League, the Italian club’s vice-president Adriano Galliani renewed his faith in coach Leonardo.

In most other walks of life, that would provoke a sense of relief in a person whose job was on the line but in football it often precipitates a severing of ties.

So it may well have been with mixed emotions that Leonardo received the news that Galliani had spoken openly of his support for the Brazilian.

“We can do nothing but confirm our faith in Leonardo,” said Galliani. “At the moment things are going badly. We’ve lived through many good years but now things aren’t going well.

“A draw would have been the fair result but we’ll go forward. How will we end this crisis? We’ll see.”

However, Milan travel to Bergamo to tackle second from bottom and winless Atalanta at the weekend and another failure there could possibly pull the rug from beneath the Brazilian’s feet, regardless of how much that might cost Milan. — AFP

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