AC Milan: club to open its first academy in the United States in spring 2024

AC Milan (Serie A TIM), in partnership with the American company Black&Red Pumas LLC, is to open its first academy in the United States, which will take place in Fairfax (Virginia) and around Washington DC, in the spring of 2024, announced the club on 15/11/2023. A five-day camp will be organised in December 2023, a few months before the official opening of the project.

This training programme, aimed at boys and girls aged between 5 and 17, will offer "an elite technical program that will support them in their sporting and personal growth," according to the Milanese club, whose instructors will pass on the "AC Milan method" to the local teams.

"Preceded by the recent arrival of the AC Milan Junior Camp in Canada (from 03/07 to 04/08/2023), AC Milan Academy Virginia is part of the Club's wider project which aims to strengthen the AC Milan brand in strategic areas such as North America, where football is experiencing a moment of exponential growth and is strongly linked to the Rossoneri," added AC Milan who have around 43 million fans in the United States, making them the most…