MILAN – The “Zanetti & Friends, Match for Expo” will be presented today in the city of Milan. The charity football match, scheduled for the 4th of May at the San Siro, is part of this year’s Expo 2015 celebrations which is being held in the northern city of Milan.

Several ex-players from both Milan and Inter will be taking part with the aim of raising money for charitable projects for the city of Milan. Club legend, and also an ambassador for this year’s Expo 2015, Franco Baresi is also present at the presentation of the charity match at the city hall Palazzo Marino.

MILANELLO – The rossoneri’s afternoon training session has started at Milanello. Montolivo took part in the warm-up with the rest of the squad before working apart on his personalised training programme out on the athletics track. El Shaarawy, after training with the group on Sunday, is also working on his personalised training programme. Paletta, Alex and Antonelli are working out in the gym.

MILAN – Earlier this year, AC Milan unveiled plans for a new state of the art stadium to be constructed near the club’s headquarters Casa Milan which is situated in the Portello-Fiera area of the city. Click here to read more.

Today, those stadium plans received a boost as the Fondazione Fiera Milano, which owns the land and has been assessing the bids to redevelop the former world fair site, communicated that Milan has been identified as the main bid to re-develop the area amongst the other bids. The next step will be to verify that all the conditions can be met to carry out the project. A decision will be communicated in no more than 6 weeks.

MILAN – Piero Giacomelli has been named as the referee for this Wednesday’s Serie A fixture between Milan-Genoa. He has taken charge of 49 matches in the Italian top flight and his first match was Genoa-Cagliari (0-1) on the 3rd of April 2011.

With Giacomelli in charge, Milan have won twice (Milan-Chievo 5-1 in 2012 and Milan-Chievo 2-0 in 2014) and drawn once (Milan-Verona 2-2 in 2015). His record with Genoa reads 2 draws and 3 defeats for the rossoblu.