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Not only Manchester City's Balotelli and Cassano playing in the new Italian national team, and a new manager, Prandelli. Also the staff is getting better: after a World Cup almost without Milan people, and we have seen how it ended, now Roberto Baggio (here in the pic with Savicevic and Weah, ex Man City too), former Ac Milan & Inter Milan genius, nicknamed "Divin Codino" (for his ponytail) is the new president of the technical commitee, then former Ac Milan super victorious manager Arrigo Sacchi is head of the junior national teams, and 1960s-'70s Ac Milan legend Gianni Rivera is president of the youth sector.
Chief among the young talent Baggio believes in is Mario Balotelli, who much to the former star's chagrin is set to join big-spending English Premier League side Manchester City of Roberto Mancini from Inter Milan.
I could never forget Baggio when I was in England in '94 and with his goals he led Italy to the final (unfortunately lost with a  failed penalty by Baggio), and we were watching the games in a school, being very loud :)
For sure Baggio didn't have Rooney's lifestyle... Noel Gallagher would say: because he's a buddhist :)