MILAN – The Milan Primavera, coached by Brocchi, will make its debut in the Viareggio Tournament this afternoon at 5pm local time at the “Ferdeghini” of La Spezia, an astroturf pitch, against Ascoli.
The other game of Group 5 will be played at Larderello at 3pm
MILAN – TIM has launched a ‘Kids on the pitch’ initiative giving children from the ages of 7-10 the chance to head out on the San Siro turf side by side with their Milan heroes for the league match with Lazio on the 20th of March. Click here for more info
MILAN – Milan’s next opponents in the league are Lazio and Giuseppe Biava, the former Lazio defender, spoke to Lazio Style Rai about the biancocelesti and their Europa League match in midweek. He said: “Lazio showed they were the better team against Sparta Prague, in the return leg they will be missing some key players and that might affect them but Lazio’s squad is good enough to make up for those who will be absent. Sparta Prague will try to score a goal, Lazio have to be bold, aggressive and they have to be convinced that they can go through.”
MILAN – The Italy U17s landed in Tbilisi on Sunday night and held their first training session on Monday morning. The azzurri will play their first match today against Russia at the Mikheil Meskhi Stadioni-2 at 13.00. “They are a very practical side that play solid football,” said the Italy coach Alessandro Dal Canto “They are similar to the way we play football, and they have four very good players, especially the two wide attackers, players capable of creating problems for anyone.”
Three rossoneri are part of the squad in Georgia; the goalkeeper Plizzari, the defender Bellanova and the midfielder Gabbia.
MILAN – Today, ten years ago on March 15th 2006, Milan president Silvio Berlusconi was celebrating his 20 years at the club and Demetrio Albertini retired from football and said farewell to Milan in Milan-Barcelona: My Way.