The Milan Junior Camp (MJC) is the children's summer vacation soccer camp organized by the famous AC Milan football club from the Italian Serie A League and carried out by local organizations (Sporteventi is the selected soccer camp manager).

The soccer training sessions, depending on your site, will be lead by AC Milan soccer legends, in cooperation with Sporteventi coaches, such as Pierino Prati (Manager of one AC Milan top Soccer School in Milan), Gino Maldera (Manager of one AC Milan top Soccer School in Milan), Fulvio Florin and Filippo Galli (Assistant Coach of AC Milan First Team coach Carlo Ancelotti, in charge of defense training) known as the AC Milan supervisors and supervised by Otello Di Remigio, official youth scout of AC Milan Youth teams and Sporteventi coach.

The person in charge of all Sporteventi coaches is Otello Di Remigio, an official scout for AC Milan Youth Side; he is also in charge of the relations between the youth teams that the club “Liventina Gorghense” coordinates (more than 20) and the AC Milan Youth side.

The camp is not a soccer camp full of rigid training exercises, nor is it designed to immediately produce champions. It is a soccer camp designed for having fun and playing with the other boys, a soccer camp spent learning to respect each other and learn new skills.

It is an important time to stimulate soccer players sense of responsibility and to learn the important value of rules and education.

Last year (2008) Milan Junior Soccer camps welcomed more than 800 campers in 9 weeks, 600 from Italy, 200 from 30 different countries, to name a few: USA, CANADA, UK, JORDAN, KUWAIT, SAUDI ARABIA, EMIRATES, JAPAN, CROATIA, SLOVENIA, GERMANY, GREECE, RUSSIA, INDIA, MEXICO.

The soccer camp provides one of the most prestigious coaching staff of Italy and some of the most famous and exclusive sites of Italy (Jesolo and Vittorio Veneto) and Europe, as Cortina D’Ampezzo is known worldwide.

The soccer camp has a large number of Italian players (more than 80% on average)

AC Milan prized the 2007 Milan Junior Camp of Cortina as:

• Best Milan Junior Camp in the world
   

• Site with the most campers in one week around the world

“BERLUSCONI’S TROPHY” AND MILAN JUNIOR CAMP DAY

Each participants taking part in the Milan Junior camp, will be given a free ticket to the prestigious “Trofeo Berlusconi” match, AC Milan vs. Juventus Turin, that usually takes place in the middle of August as an opener for the Italian football season (the date for the game is usually available at the end of July ).

Also, at each camp, the AC Milan supervisors will choose one or two 10 year old boys (1999). They will be able to take part in the Milan Junior Camp Day, the three days meeting of the best players in all Milan Junior Camps worldwide, which will take place, presumably in the fall 2009, at the Vismara – Milan Sport Center. Vismara is the sport center where all AC Milan youth teams side train (the first team and the Primavera (U19) team train at Milanello instead).

There should be about 200 participants for the class’99, 10 years old boys, who will play each other in friendly games all day long, while watched attentively by AC Milan Youth side’s talent scouts. Afterwards they will be taken to the San Siro stadium for a Milan home game and some of them will be able to meet some first team players after the game.

Considering that over 870 boys signed up in 2008, there were about 30 Ten years old boys winners (of the class’98), amongst the 370 worlwide winners participating, at the 2008 MJC DAY (see photos). The boys saw AC Milan beat Sampdoria by 3 - 0 (2 goals by Ronaldhino and 1 by Inzaghi) and walked around the field in front of 65,000 enthusiast spectators at AC Milan San Siro stadium. During the tournament at Vismara training center, Adriano Galliani (Vice Executive President and Managing Director), Ariedo Braida (Sports General Manager) and Daniele Massaro (former AC Milan player and Public Relations Director) came to visit the participants.

NB. The dates for the “Trofeo Berlusconi” and the MJC DAY will be announced as soon as known but NOT before the end of August 2009. 

Following are the 3 Milan Junior Soccer Camps locations:

For parent's hotel rates and information, just click on the city name for more information.

Vittorio Veneto (2 hotels)

Accommodation: Terme Hotel (3 stars) and Hotel Flora (3 stars)
Playing field: Marco Polo Sporting Center
Other: swimming pool, Golf, pleasant location, easy access via the motorway, comfortable hotels with first class cuisine.

Cortina D'Ampezzo

Accommodation: Alaska Hotel (4 stars)
Playing field: Stadio Comunale Antonella De Rigo, Fiames and Zuel city council premises
Other: swimming pool, skating rink, Corso Italia (La Conchiglia), often in the company of VIPs (Ezio Greggio) in an extraordinary structure right in the heart of the town. The sport fields are in a picturesque setting.

Jesolo

Accommodation: Villaggio al Mare Marzotto
Playing field: on site
Other: Swimming pool at the Hotel, the sea, evening promenades on the most famous esplanade of the Adriatic sea and training under the artificial lights of the field.

Your camp fee includes:

• Hotel board accommodation
   
• Three meals per day
   
• Full coaching program
   
• AC Milan Junior Camp Certificate of attendance
   
• Camp souvenir
   
• Evening activities throughout the week
   
• Medical Insurance (injuries not depending from Sporteventi Liability)
   
• Qualified Staff presence 24 hours a day
   
• Transfer by private bus from hotel to fields during the week
   
• Adidas Milan Kit (one full kit per stay only, important to mention your size in centimeters on the application for the right kit on arrival)
   
• Daily wash of the Adidas Milan kit only when used by the participant
   
• AC Milan supervisors during the week (you will hear their own international soccer stories during relaxation moments to make your stay unforgettable)
   
• A female educator for the youngest camp participants who might be missing their parents
   
• Mineral water always available in the playing field
   
• Free snacks will be available twice a day, mid-morning and mid-afternoon
   

• Camp photos together with the team, with the group, and alone with the Milan champion who attended the same week.
   

Click here for Milan Junior Camps FAQ'S

The camp requires a doctor's medical certificate (no older than a year) attesting that the participant is physically able to participate fully in all sports  and social activities during the camp.

All Italian camps are taught in Italian only, however, a few coaches speak some English during each session. For many years, we have participants coming from all over the world and a lot of them do not speak Italian but accommodate very well to the camp as there is no language barrier.

Airport/Train Transfer Information:

MJC provides a negotiated transfer service with a transportation company from Venice International  Airport  to the camps.  All transfers must be pre-arranged. After collecting their luggage, students proceed through customs. Students are then met by a representative of the transportation company who will be displaying a prominent sign. The transportation company has an agreement with Sporteventi (the local organizer) to provide transportation to and from Marco Polo Venice Airport.

The fees will need to be paid directly to the transportation company on arrival and departure in Euros only.

The cost, per person, for this services are as follows:

VENICE MARCO POLO (VCE) AIRPORT - JESOLO LIDO

One way: 70 Euros

Roundtrip:  140 Euros

(one person only)

One way with a little bus of  8 seats + 1 driver:  Euros 115 (group price)

Roundtrip:  Euros 230 (group price)

(discount for multiple bookings) 

VENICE MARCO POLO (VCE) AIRPORT – VITTORIO VENETO

 One way: Euros 80

Roundtrip:  Euros 160

(one person only)

One way with a little bus of  8 seats + 1 driver:  Euros 115 (group price)

Roundtrip: Euros 230 (group price)

(discount for multiple bookings)

VENICE MARCO POLO  (VCE) AIRPORT – CORTINA D'AMPEZZO

One way: Euros 185

Roundtrip:  Euros 370

(one person only)

One way with a little bus of  8 seats + 1 driver:  Euros 260 (group price)

Roundtrip:  Euros 520 (group price)

(discount for multiple bookings)

These prices don’t include the cost of the waiting-time of the car at the Airport.

There is a franchise of half an hour.
After the half hour wait, there is a cost of 4 Euros for every 15 minute wait.

Approximate Journey Time:
 

All prices are per person and in US dollars. Prices & availability are subject to change without written notification and are not confirmed until full payment has been made.