AC Milan: "Once again, thank you all", farewell message of Silvio Berlusconi, owner, 1986 to 2017

"Once again, thank you all," wrote Silvio Berlusconi, owner of AC Milan from 20/02/1986 to 13/04/2017, the day of sale of the club to the Chinese-fronted group, Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux, a Luxembourg registered company of the businessman Yonghong Li, 48 years old.

"I will never forget all the people thanks to whom I had the chance to become the President of this Club that has won so much," said Silvio Berlusconi, 80 years old.

"Although today I leave this position, I will forever be AC Milan's first fan. The team my father taught me to love when I was a child, the dream that we made come true together," added the Italian entrepreneur in a message posted on the website of AC Milan, reproduced in full below.

"Modern football, to compete at the top level in Europe and in the world, needs investments and resources that only one family cannot support" (S. Berlusconi, on 13/04/2017)

• "I today leave, after more than thirty years, the ownership and the presidency of AC Milan I do it with grief and emotion, but knowing that modern football, to compete at the top level in Europe and in…