Serie A: AC Milan extends its educational collaboration agreement with Swiss school TASIS in 2018-19

"AC Milan (Serie A) and TASIS (The American School in Switzerland) have extended their collaboration agreement for the 2018-19 season," announced the Milan club on 06/07/2018.

"The partnership, unique in its kind, was born 10 years ago with the dual purpose of promoting not only sports and football in a context of absolute professionalism, but also all values such as loyalty, sacrifice, mutual help, respecting rules, the ability to relate within a group and leadership. Characteristics that, together with TASIS, we have always tried to instill in young people on a daily basis so that they can act as positive examples in society," added AC Milan.

As part of this collaboration, which will resume in September 2018, some 700 young people from 65 different nationalities hosted by TASIS in Montagnola (80km north of Milan) will participate in training supervised by coaches from the AC Milan training center.

• "The American School in Switzerland" was founded in Locarno (Switzerland) in 1956 by Mary Fleming Christ, an "enterprising visionary and charismatic American woman with an…