MILANELLO: MY VISIT

The training ground of the football club A.C. Milan is situated between Carnago and Cassano Magnago, province of Varese.

At soon you enter the main gate there is a big parking lot for the football players and the news reporter. Soon after that there is a building where there you can get the passis, to access to the play ground.

In the gangway there is a big carpet with the simble of A.C. Milan club. At soon you walk inside there is a big room with a maxiscreen and a bar, a restaurant, two dining rooms, a room where the players play biliard, two conference rooms, a sick room and a sauna.

All around the walls there are all pictures of famous players such as Paolo Maldini (the capitan), Andriy Shevchenko, Alessandro Costacurta, Franco Baresi, Fabio Capello, Cesare Maldini, Carlo Ancelotti, Marco Van Basten, etc.

At the second floor there are 56 rooms, where the players sleep when they are on training and main offices.

Also they have an underground parking supplise rooms and also parking for the football coacher.

Outside the bar there is a big field where there are acres of football ground which one of them is artificial and a big forest where they have a big track long 1200 meters where the players who have had an injury can be trained jogging or cycling.

Pass the first training ground you can see a changing room and a fitness room which is used for the first team and the second team, the young team.

Inside the changing room they have a store where they keep all the training staff.

This is what I saw a day I visited Milanello and I will never forget it.

It was 3rd March 2001.

written by Diana Gorga ( free8@itcgbianchi.mi.it )