Re: AC Milan fan club
MILAN HAILS RICKY
In January he went into one of the most important attractions in the city, the Museum of Science and Technology, and he came out with the Gianni Brera award under his arm. The previous season a certain Paolo Maldini won it. In April his parents picked up in his absence the Fair Play award during the Olympic Federation gala in one of Milan's premier sporting venues, the Leone XIII institute. He was turning on the style for Brazil in Budapest, otherwise he would have been present. Last but not least, on Monday evening. The San Siro Gentleman Prize, in its ninth edition, has become a sporting ritual for the city. And also in this case the top award for fair play went to him. Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, Kaka, receives invitations, smiles, picks up the awards and says thank you. No pretension, no effort. That's the way it goes, it is not a burden for Ricky. On the contrary. What's most striking is the ease with which the 22-year-old from sao Paolo has settled in Milan. In a welcoming and friendly city in their manner, but certainly demanding and precise in their judgment to admit a new-comer, Kaka looks like a veteran. And the reference is not to the pitch or the dribbling. The behaviour, the expression, the capacity to listen: all this alone makes this boy a young star to be awarded. He doesn't set an example, he is one. For Kaka the fair play is not an occasional dress, but the usual attier. And if he moves easily from the Museum of Science and Technology to the Olympic Federation Gala, from the Brera Award to the recognition of the best gentleman player, always in the heart of football and in the core of the city, it means that it is all true, he is just like this.
