The club’s legendary captain Franco Baresi was on hand to mark the official start of the season at the Milan Soccer School in Gatika, Spain yesterday. The visit of Baresi and the event was greeted by great enthusiasm by all of the players and their families with whom the Milan delegation had the chance to speak about the aims of the project. As of today there are 75 children registered with the Milan Soccer School in Gatika, a major success considering that Milan are the first foreign team to have soccer schools in the Basque region.

Three players of the Pertamina AC Milan Soccer School in Jakarta have been called up by the Indonesia Under 17s for the next training sessions and international torunaments. The three players - Juliius Jossel, M.Ramdan and Afdal Yusra - play for the Under 17s of the local Scuola Calcio Milan, developed in collaboration with Pertamina under the supervision of the Tecnico Milan Academy Mauro Ardizzone. The call-up is an important signal of the technical value and organisation of the Scuola Calcio Milan which aims to develop and spread the culture of sport and the methods of coaching in football in countries where the game is expanding. The club would like to compliment the three lads on their call-up.

The Cimiano Scuola Calcio and Centro Tecnico Milan held courses for the coaches at the Milan Academy that are working with the Scuole Calcio Milan in Italy and abroad. All the staff involved with the Milan Junior and Milan Academy project, from the technical aspect to the psychological study of children, were invited to attend seminars and practical exercises on the field.
The course started with a talk from the Commercial Director of AC Milan, Jaap Kalma, followed by the head of the ‘Progetto Milan Junior’ Edgardo Zanoli and also professors Gianfranco Parma and Antonello Bolis. The group then began to look back at the experiences of last year, underlining the good moments and the bad ones in order to improve for this year ahead of the work that has to be done by Milan’s technical team in Italy and all over the world. All the coaches spent time both in the seminar room as well as on the field of play and were carefully observed by Davide Corti and Marco Peverieri, during both technical and practical simulations that mimicked a typical day at a Scuola Calcio.
Both days were very useful for all those involved and there was a constant exchange of ideas and opinions in order to try and improve the Milan Junior project in Italy and abroad.
The course was the curtain raiser of the Scuola Calcio Milan season, a project of fundamental importance that involves more than 25000 families each year and has a network of 17 Scuole Calcio Milan in the world and over 80 in Italy.