The Soccer Academy©

and the AC Milan Junior Camps

Italy and Croatia

Super-scout, Otello DiRemiggio, guides and directs the camp

The Soccer Academy© has teamed up with Sport Eventi and the AC Milan Junior Soccer Camps in Italy and Croatia. By attending, you'll receive some of the very best professional coaching in the world from former superstars such as Pierino Prati, Gino Maldera and Maurizio Ganz. It is an international experience like no others. Play with some of the top players your ages from all corners of the globe.

You can reserve your space for less than 700 Euros a week (just under $800 U.S.). You can also sign up for two consecutive weeks. Bring your team and get a whole team discount.

You can also work directly with the AC Milan youth super scout, Otello DiRemiggio, who is directly responsible for identifying top talent for the AC Milan structure.

When signing up for camp, tell them you heard about the camp from "The Soccer Academy©" and you'll get a special bonus.

To get more information, sign up at: Sport Eventi

Camp dates for 2007 are:

In the Italian Village of Cortina d'Ampezzo:

June 24th to June 30th with Pierino Prati
July 1st to July 7th with Maurizio Ganz
July 8th to July 14th with Gino Maldera

In the Italian Town of Jesolo:

July 8th to July 14th with Pierino Prati
July 15th to July 21st with Pierino Prati

In the Croatian Village of Pula:

July 1st to July 7th with Pierino Prati

In the Italian City of Vittorio Veneto:

July 22nd to July 28th with Pierino Prati
July 29th to August 4th with Pierino Prati


Some of the Professional Coaches from AC Milan

Pierino Prati

Pierino Prati grew up with the youngsters of Milan. He was first sent to a C league team, the Salernitana, to begin his career. He began to play professional soccer there, taking the team to the championship and a consequent promotion to the B league. The next year he jumped to the B series team of Savona. From there he returned to Milan, where he played for seven winning years.

He has won:
2 Italy Cup
2 Cup of Cups
1 National Championship (1968/69)
the Champions Cup 1969
the Intercontinental Cup 1970

In 1967 he was also Top Scorer of the Italian championship.
From there he joined the Rome team, where he played for another 5 years before moving on to Florence (one year) and finally returning to Savona in series C, where his playing career ended three years later, in 1981.

Pierino Prati also played in 18 national matches, scoring 7 goals. He still holds the record for goals (3) scored in a Champions Cup (Milan-Ajax, 4-1). Wearing the blue jersey (Italian national team) he was European Champion in 1968 and runner up in the World Cup in Mexico in 1970.

Prati had numerous trainers during his long career; of these Swede Nils Liedholm and Nereo Rocco, the "Paron" are the most memorable. Although he has "hung up his shoes", he has not abandoned the game. After participating in the "Super Trainer 1st Class" in Coverciano, he has dedicated his time to training boys.
For seven years he has been an instructor at the AC twin soccer school Milan.


Luigi (Gino) Maldera

Oldest of the Maldera brothers (well known with his brother Aldo, both ex-Milanists), he grew with the Milan juvenile teams to the category of Primavera. He then spent two years in Series B wearing the Monza and Verona jersey.

During the 1968/69 season he began playing in Series A upon his return to Milan.

Wearing the red and black jersey of Milan he played for 5 seasons, winning:
Champions Cup (1969)
the Intercontinental Cup

From Milan he went to Catanzaro, during the Series A years of glory. He played for 6 seasons in Calabria, after which his playing career ended. Since the end of his professional career Gino Maldera has worked for quite a few seasons with the juvenile teams of Milan.

Since becoming "Super Trainer 2nd Class" in Coverciano, he has dedicated his time to training the juvenile team of Milan, from the 1980/81 season to the 1996/97 season. He then became an instructor at the AC twin soccer school.