MILAN – Lorenzo Maggioni will referee this Saturday’s round 1 youth league match between Milan-Udinese. His assistants have been named as Francesco Semperboni and Marco Bresmes.
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ROBERTO DONADONI HOPING FOR GREAT DERBY, Sunday 13 September 2015
MILAN – Former Milan star and ex-Parma coach Roberto Donadoni spoke exclusively to the Milan Channel earlier today. This is what the Italian had to say, starting with his experience on the gialloblu bench:
“In every situation you find yourself in, you have to do well and try and get the best out of yourself. I will treasure the experience of a complicated season at Parma. The thing that spurs me on is trying to always improve. It should be every coach’s objective to pass this onto his players. Developing and improving is a process that should never stop. Every experience is useful in order to understand the mistakes that are made and that can be treasured. Bonaventura is a player with excellent technical qualities and a very committed professional, I am happy for him. I hope that he can achieve some important objectives with Milan, a club that has a great history and that wants to reach some important goals.”
On this Sunday’s showdown with Inter: “Derbies are the type of matches that leave players with positive memories from their careers, matches that leave you dreaming, especially for someone like me who has always been a Milan fan. I think that on Sunday everything is there for the taking, it will be an open match and I hope that it will be a good spectacle and the players do everything to make it hard for their opponents. Jose Mauri now finds himself in an important set-up like Milan with team-mates that will inevitably take playing time away from him. It’s down to him though to find opportunities to play and break through. He has all the qualities to achieve that.”
GIANLUCA ROCCHI TO REFEREE INTER-MILAN, Sunday 13 September 2015
MILAN – Gianluca Rocchi has been named as the referee for this Sunday’s derby between Inter-Milan at the San Siro. He will be assisted by Alessandro Giallatini and Alessandro Padovan. The additional assistants have been named as Daniele Orsato and Paolo Valeri.
EMILIO DE LEO OBTAINS 2ND CATEGORY UEFA A LICENCE
MILAN – The final exams for the professional second category UEFA A coaching licence have been taking place at Coverciano. The coaching licence allows aspiring coaches to coach at every level of the youth sector, first teams up until Lega Pro (Italian third division) and also to be appointed as assistant first team coach at Serie B and Serie A clubs. Also taking the exam, and now qualified, was Sinisa Mihajlovic’s tactical assistant Emilio De Leo as well as former Milan defender Roque Junior, who was part of the Milan squad that won the 2003 Champions League final versus Juventus.
BACCA-ZAPATA BACK IN ITALY, September 10, 2015
The Colombian duo will return to Milanello after international duty.
MILAN – A total of 13 Milan players were called-up by their respective national sides for the international break. They were as follows:
Mattia De Sciglio and Andrea Bertolacci were both named in the Italy squad by Antonio Conte for the Euro 2016 qualifiers. The first one pitted the Azzurri against Malta on the 3rd of September and ended in a 1-0 victory for Italy. Bertolacci played the first 55 minutes of the match while De Sciglio was an unused sub. Up next for Italy was another Euro 2016 qualifier versus Bulgaria on the 6th of September and finished 1-0 to the Azzurri. Bertolacci didn’t feature versus Bulgaria however after leaving the Italy camp with an injury sustained in the first Euro 2016 qualifier versus Malta. De Sciglio on the other hand played the full 90 minutes.
Alessio Romagnoli and Jose Mauri meanwhile were part of Luigi Di Biagio’s Italy Under-21 squad that beat Slovenia 1-0 on the 8th of September in Reggio Emilia. The former was handed a start.
Keisuke Honda was named in the Japan squad for the two World Cup qualifiers. Japan faced Cambodia at home on the 3rd of September and the Milan no.10 opened the scoring in a 3-0 win. He also scored the final goal on 74 minutes in the 6-0 win over Afghanistan on the 8th of September.
Cristian Zapata and Carlos Bacca on the other hand were both called-up to the Colombia squad for the friendly with Peru in the USA on the 8th of September. Bacca was on the scoresheet in a 1-1 draw on what was his birthday.
New addition Juraj Kucka, fresh from making his Milan debut in the 2-1 victory over Empoli in round 2 of Serie A, was amongst the 25 players called up to the Slovakia squad for the Euro 2016 qualifiers. On the 5th of September Slovakia lost to Spain (Kucka did not feature) and then played out a 0-0 draw with Ukraine on the 8th of September. Kucka played the entire match.
Tocontinue, Rodrigo Ely played part of the second half for the Brazil Olympic team in the match versus France Olympic in Le Mans on the 8th of September. France ran out 2-1 winners.
Davide Calabria was amongst the 23 players called up to the Italy U-20 side that played Germany (at home) on the 3rd of September in the opening match of the Four Nations. The Germans ran out 2-0 winners. Finally, there were 3 other rossoneri representing the blue of Italy too in the form of Ivan De Santis, Manuel Locatelli and Luca Vido. The Milan youth sector players all came off the bench for the Italy U-19s in a goalless stalemate with Holland.