The rise and the fall of Milan Lab The many injuried AC Milan's players makes we wonder about a Laboratory that changed the use of the medicine in football

The injury case of AC Milan's player is becoming the inside joke of the Serie A. After Romagnoli and Calhanoglu's injuries, also Bonaventura is forced to end the season ahead of schedule. If we add Strinic (out by the start of the season for a cardiac problem), Mattia Caldara (who will be back in February), Lucas Biglia and Mateo Musacchio, the joke is getting less funny. It’s hard to shift the blame to the staff, but it’s clear that something in the Milanello training center is not working. But Milan Lab, the famous medical and research center in Milanello, was since 2002 the most vanguardist medical center for sports in Europe, a key of a club that reached two Champions League trophies with a team of 30-years-old who run like 20. In those years Maldini, Seedorf, Ibrahimovic, Ronaldinho and Cafù have said a fine word about Milan Lab, its approach changed professional sports medicine but today his efficiency seems to be lost.

Backing in our days, the problems are too much and we can't ignore them, the physic form of Milan's players was never unforgettable. The power of the team wasn't brilliant in those years and far from the 2007 season one. Many injuries, similar and in the same moment of the season increase the doubt on this project. According to Microsoft Milan Lab is still one of the biggest sport databases in the world and in the last years has drawn the attention of the main European teams as Manchester United, Chelsea and Boca Juniors in football, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat in the Nba, Miami Dolphins in the Nfl and McLaren in F1. Nowadays the intuition to base the team management on data has adopted and perfectioned by others clubs but it seems that in Milanello the method has lost their efficiency and its fame. maybe because of the end of the collaboration with one of the founders of the Lab, Daniele Tognaccini.

Montella doesn't consider it, Kaká admitted its limits and Pato is playing in China. However, maybe Milan Lab is now just a rusty project, and no more a vanguard intuition that changed the way to comprehend the football.