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Coordinates:45°42′25″N8°50′00″E / 45.706974°N 8.833394°E /45.706974; 8.833394

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Training facility of Italian football club A.C. Milan

Milanello
Website
Centro Sportivo Milanello
Interactive map of Milanello
Full name	Milanello Sports Center
Location	Carnago, Italy
Coordinates	45°42′25″N8°50′00″E / 45.706974°N 8.833394°E /45.706974; 8.833394
Owner	A.C. Milan
Type	Football training facility
Surface	Grass (six regulation-size pitches) Synthetic turf (two reduced-size pitches)
Opened	1963 (1963)
www.acmilan.com/en/club/venues/milanello

Milanello Sports Center (Italian:Centro Sportivo Milanello), commonly referred to as simplyMilanello, is thetraining facility of Italianfootball clubA.C. Milan. Built in 1963,^[1] the centre consists of 160,000square metres (1,700,000 sq ft). It is located between the towns ofCarnago,Cassano Magnago andCairate, in theprovince of Varese, about 40 km northwest ofMilan.

Milanello currently represents an important asset not only for the club, but for the whole Italian football system. This was the objective pursued byAndrea Rizzoli who decided to build it. The facilities of Milanello have often been used also by theItalian Football Federation for the preparation of the National Team’s important competitions, such as the European Championships in 1988, 1996 and 2000.^{[citation needed]}

At Milanello there are six regular pitches, 1 in synthetic grass (35 m x 30), 1 covered pitch with synthetic ground (42 m x 24) and a small-sized outdoor pitch in grass named "cage" because the playing field is surrounded by a 2,30 m high wall and topped by 2,5 m high fencing. Inside the cage, the play never stops, with the ball always in motion in order to enhance the speed of execution. A path running through the woods ca. 1,200 m long at various altitudes is used during the season for the players’ physical training (running and biking) and for the recovery of injured players. The main building of the centre is a two-floor building (plus the basement) hosting the offices, the players’ rooms, the chimney room, a TV-room, a pool-room; a bar, a kitchen, two dining-rooms, the press room, the meeting room, the laundry, the ironing-room and the medical centre. Next to the main building the "guest-quarters" are located, where a few players from the Youth Department also live. These youngsters, coming from various parts of Italy and from abroad too, go to school as all other teenagers and in the afternoons attend their training sessions on the field made available to them.