Football Begins in Milan

In 2010, as AC Milan's "retirement home" era drew to a close, the club was tightening its finances, its youth academy was crumbling, and no one knew how to handle talents like Mario Balotelli. European football stood on the eve of the peak of both possession-based football and Mourinho-style counterattacking. Li Hua took over AC Milan's embattled youth team. With tactical ideas ahead of their time and a subtle gift for nurturing talent, he turned a bunch of good-for-nothings into global superstars and rebuilt the Rossoneri dynasty at San Siro.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.