A small goalkeeper who that night against Leeds was the greatest of all, a precious teacher for people like Buffon and Dida, Ancelotti’s critical conscience: all the faces of the former AC Milan column
He defended himself like a lion, as he did that time in Thessaloniki, against those giants of Leeds, but in the end, at the age of seventy-three, Villiam Vecchi had to give up. With him goes not only the goalkeeper who, thanks to his interventions as a tightrope walker, gave Milan the Cup Winners’ Cup and the Italian Cup in 1973, but also the first coach of Gigi Buffon in Serie A and the historic collaborator of Carlo Ancelotti . Yes, because Villiam (written with the V and not the W, as he wanted to emphasize) was all this in one person: a life dedicated to football, always on the field, always ready for a shooting session to warm the hands. to his students, and to check their reflexes, always available to give advice, a suggestion or to take them by the arm and explain to them what they had to do.
