MILAN – Last weekend in Singapore, the pitches in front of the historic Singapore City Hall and Singapore Cricket Club were awash with a rainbow of colours for the third edition of the international youth tournament, “International Youth 7s Tournament at The Padang”.

The Rossoneri colours were present with the Singapore Milan Soccer School, who participated in the Under9s – with nine players in the Little Friends category – and the Under-15s with 10 young players from the local Giovanissimi team.

The tournament saw the participation of about 2,000 boys and girls between 7 and 15 years over the course of two days of football and fun, with over 142 teams from 13 countries from Asia and Australia including Oman, Korea and Vietnam.

Milan Soccer School was the star with the victory in the Little Friends, who took home the trophy and also the Juniors were on the podium in their class, finishing in third place. Guiding the Singapore Milan Soccer School was coach Milan Academy Graziano Mannari, who has the delicate task of supervising and coordinating the technical and methodological work of the Soccer School, along with coaches Mattia Lorini and Nur Azuréen.