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CHINA TOUR, MIHAJLOVIC: WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO WINNING WAYS

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MILAN – Sinisa Mihajlovic held the press conference in Shenzhen

“I am very happy to be here in China and I would like to thank the Chinese fans for how they have welcomed us, with so much passion and love. We must be proud to be called up for these luxury friendlies here. Our aim here is to put on a good show and to increase our number of fans and the aim is to take Milan back to the top of international and domestic football. There are few clubs that have our history and our followers and we will do all we can to entertain the fans. I don’t know what will happen with Ibra, we have a great team and we will do well no matter who arrives at the club. I would like to get used to winning the derby straight away. I expect improvements in every area, even when it comes to character. You don’t play in derbies, you win them. Let’s try to win one straight away, it will not be easy but we are Milan and we always have to play to win.”

 

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CHINA TOUR, ABATE: I WANT TO END MY CAREER AT MILAN

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MILAN – Ignazio Abate also spoke during the press conference in Shenzhen. He said:

“I have been lucky enough to extend my contract with Milan, my intention is to end my career at Milan, although you never know in football. My aim is to finish here where I grew up. My wife is from Puglia so we got married near where she is from. My children will decide what is best for them, if they become footballers then I will be excited but they are free to choose their own path. Physically I am feeling better, yesterday I started running and I am following a program. We will see day by day. I hope I will be able to play a few minutes against Real Madrid.”

 

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CHINA TOUR, BONAVENTURA: MIHAJLOVIC A SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL

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MILAN – In the press conference today in Shenzhen Giacomo Bonaventura spoke about Mihajlovic’s methods on the training ground. He said:

“We still haven’t seen him strike a free kick but we remember how he used to hit them. He was one of the best in the history of the game. Let’s hope he can hand down some tips to us. He is a great professional, he has brought an eexcellent mentality to the group, a winning mentality. I think he can take us very far. He is very well prepared under every aspect of the game. We still don’t know him very well but he is a very serious person.”

 

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AC Milan Coach Sinisa Mihajlovic

 

 

AC MILAN PRIMAVERA BACK TO WORK

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The Primavera summer training camp starts tomorrow with fitness tests. On Monday evening the squad leave for South Africa for the Durban International tournament.

 

MILAN – The holidays are almost over for the Primavera players as well and tomorrow everyone will be back at Milanello for the start of the new season.

First thing are the fitness tests then Sunday and Monday the players will hold their first training sessions before leaving for South Africa on Monday evening.The second edition of the Durban International Football Tournament takes place between July 29th and August 8th and involves teams such as Arsenal, Schalke 04, Stuttgart and Galatasaray.

Milan will be playing in Group B. This is the schedule of the matches:

30 July, 3pm (local time): VFB Stuttgart-AC Milan

1 August, 5.15pm (local time): Galatasaray-AC Milan

3 August, 5.15pm (local time): South Africa Under19-AC Milan

Brocchi has called the following players for the tournament:

Agnero, Altare, Bordi, Cancelli, Careccia, Casiraghi, Crociata, Crosta, Cutrone, De Piano, De Santis, El Hilali, Felicioli, Gamarra, Hadziosmanovic, Hamadi, Iudica, La Ferrara, Livieri, Llamas, Locatelli, Malberti, Mastour, Modic, Mondonico, Papasodaro, Spinelli, Turano, Vassallo, Vido, Zanellato, Zucchetti.

AC MILAN TACTICS AHEAD OF THE DERBY IN CHINA

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The second training session of the day took place at the Shenzhen Stadium.

 

SHENZHEN – Second training session of the day for the rossoneri at the Shenzhen Stadium, just 24 hours before the big derby clash against Inter in the International Champions Cup at the Longgang Stadium. There were at least 100 fans watching the session and cheering on the players.The team started training at 5pm local time. It started with a warm-up and loosening up of the limbs. After the stretching the players carried out some exercises over some low obstacles. Following the fitness half of the session the players started working with the ball. First of all a technical workout on passing then a tactical session with a training match, 11 against 11.

Abate and Menz worked apart on personalised training regimes.