From July 31 through August 3, Milan are going to Moscow to play in a 4-way friendly - the Moscow Railway Tournament - with Lokomotiv Moscow, Chelsea and Sevilla.

Edited to show this year's teams, not last year's. Thanks, Misha!

Here are the call ups for the tournament:

MILANO - Questi i 21 rossoneri convocati dal tecnico Carlo Ancelotti per la trasferta di Mosca:
Dida 1, Kalac 16, Abbiati 12
Antonini 77, Bonera 25, Digao 31, Favalli 19, Jankulovski 18, Kaladze 4, Maldini 3, Oddo 2, Simic 17, Zambrotta 15
Ambrosini 23, Brocchi 32, Flamini 84, Gattuso 8, Pirlo 21
Kakà 22, Paloschi 43, Seedorf 10

Today's training has taken place.

The team worked on muscle strengthening exercises in warmup. Maldini, Emerson, and Dida trained with the group.

Some of the team (Simic, Maldini, favalli, Bonera, Jankulovski, Brocchi, Digao, Aubameyang, Antonini, Paloschi, Pirlo, Gattuso, Ambrosini, Zambrotta and Emerson) then worked on agility drills alternating with an obstacle course of sorts (this is my best translation, it still sounds funny).

Following this, Gattuso, Zambrotta and Simic worked with Mauro Tassotti: running the perimeter of the pitch and then working on sprints and stretching.

Jankulovski, Favalli, Bonera, Digao, Aubemeyang and Antonini did work on rhythm alternating with a series of sprints, under the watchful eyes of Filippo Galli.

Seedorf, Inzaghi, Kaladze and Flamini trained in the gym.

Dida took part in training and also worked on rapidity and elasticity (? that's how it translates) drills.

Tomorrow the team will have morning training and will then head to Moscow.

We played vs PSV, Real Madrid and Lokomotiv last year. This time it's vs Lokomotiv Moscow, Chelsea and Sevilla.

Our first game is on Friday August 1st vs. Sevilla.

the uefa cup draw is also earlier that day

Yup, that means reflex exercises. Improving the flexibility and swiftness.

Today's training has taken place.

After warmup, the players divided into small groups to work on performance testing. The NT players worked to complete the preparations that the rest of the team had already doen.

Gattuso, Simic, and Zambrotta worked on the central pitch: Gattuso did aerobic work while Simic and Zambrotta worked on resistance tests.

Pirlo and Ambrosini worked on the lower pitch, doing 100 meter drills and specific work.

Kaka, after doing the first part of training in the gym, did exercises on the upper pitch.

Paloschi did specific work in the gym.

Seedorf, Maldini and Emerson worked in the sand pit.

Digao, Kaladze, Favalli, Antonini, Gianola, Jankulovski, Usuji and Strasser worked on performance tests of 30 and 10 meters.

Abbiati and Kalac worked with goalkeeper coach Vecchi while Dida did specific work.

An hour or so after traning ended, the players boarded the team bus to go to Malpensa for the flight to Moscow.

At what time will the matches be?

Milan vs Sevilla is at 5PM (IT) and LM vs Chelsea is at 7:15PM (IT).

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Thanks

The tournament has a website! http://railwayscup.com/index.html

That's the English version, with some info/background on the tournament. The Russian version has a lot more detail and will be running text commentary of the matches (in Russian).

Thanx


What time is it anyways .. ??

5pm italian time Milan - Sevilla

btw, Chelsea TV will be broadcasting the match live also

for where i am Dubai its 7pm

Ty han .... and ryh .. Im sure there is a 1hr diff between Kuwait and the UAE, but not sure if its before or after

lol we either i think its gunna be -1 or 30 mins im not totaly sure but ure closer to Moscow then me

I want to see Sheva against Milan

So Im getting better reception ?

i hope you like the commentary

Look who's in the goal. thank you, Carlo.

(Where the hell is Flamini )

Muscle complications ... He didn't take part in the Trofio Tim as well

Dam i was hoping to see him

btw .. the game isn't today is it ?!

Guys is there any link i could use to watch this game please?

la tomrow after the eclipse

you should be able to get links here tomrow the day of the match

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=...amp;part=sports

if not there try here

http://www.asiaplatetv.com/

Ryan , is your arabic good ?

Thanks a lot rhy...

I might be really brave and try to follow the text commentary in Russian. I'll be at work, sadly.

Anyway, here's acmilan.com's english translation of what Carletto said at Malpensa just before the flight to Moscow:

ON THE MOSCOW TOURNAMENT
"Now we go to play these two games hoping to do well. They are important tests and we will certainly meet two strong teams."

ON THE NEXT LEAGUE
"I think the next league season will be much more balanced compared to last year because all the teams have done good things on the transfer market and the quality has definitely improved."

MARKET MOVES
"Paloschi is staying because he is the only striker we have available along with Kaká so he will play these two matches. The Uruguayans, meanwhile, will train with us. Cardacio is a national team player. Viudez, meanwhile, is an '89 player, he's a bit younger. They will train with us and then we will see in twenty days if he will train with the Primavera or if he'll stay with us."

ON THE GOALKEEPERS
"The competition? It has to help everyone, not only Seedorf. Also between the keepers, it's not necessary that it's the same one the whole year. There can be some drops in form, but I don't think the turn-over makes much sense, even though right now Abbiati is not advantaged over Kalac."

INJURIES SITUATION
"Borriello has a problem which he will solve quickly. So we have to wait for him. Sheva meanwhile will play his season at Chelsea. Nesta still has to rest. Maldini, meanwhile, is fine."


Nesta needs to get better fast!

And it would seem that the deal for the Uruguayan kids is for real.

La means no in Arabic, right? that's about the only Arabic word I know (along with na'am)

What do you do in United Arab Emirates anyway? aren't you English?

The fish doll knows one Arabic word!

HABIBI.

It means my friend or something like that?

Im half English half Jordanian im a student im studying in England at the mo my dads a airline pilot for Emirates so im a expat out here on my holidays

I can understand it but speaking it and articulating some words i find hard i love the arabic commentary its like Italian with all the drama

That's nice. I like how you type btw, no dots, no apostrophes, no nothing.

So you are swimming the waves of arabic english words

i like to live free without the complications of dots .....nah tbh i just type to fast and forget the gramer

Um, dots are bad. Mmkay?

I think arab commentators have a lung capacity of a whale.
They never shut their mouth, from kick off to the end of the game he'd talk about all kinds of whaky stuff, give players funny nicknames and mix up between players.
He once mistaken seedorf for gattuso .... now that takes skill

man thats what i love about it

I was watching a Juve game last season on Jazeera and when Del Piero had the ball he would say Shoof al Koora Shoof al Malac Juve Alessandro Del Piero which means in english ( Look at the ball look at the King/Prince of Juve Alessandro Del Piero)

Like I expected Abbiati got the start after his performance against Inter, and if he maintains that level against Sevilla then he will start on Sunday also.

Yeah. Right.

Dida is not ready. You should not blame Carletto, I'm sure Dida will get his chances and it's up to him to do well...

There is ONLY one guy who comments like that; Yousif Seif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOijSICsQxs...feature=related

Well, my good friends, this begs a trivial little question: When? Because what I want is for him to get his chance, make it or break so we can move forward with this. He can always go back to Brazil and end his career there.

I know; I'm just overly impatient to a fault.

Match starts in 3 hours and 10 minutes

Tidbits from the press conference in Moscow today (italian from acmilan.com, my translation):

Carlo Ancelotti
"Speriamo di vincere questo torneo, la filosofia del Milan è quella di dare sempre il massimo. Per quanto riguarda la situazione delgi infortunati, Inzaghi sarà recuperato entro quindici giorni. Per Nesta invece i tempi ancora non possono essere precisi.

[We hope to win this tournament, Milan's philosophy is to always do its best. As regards the injured players, Inzaghi will be recuperated in 15 days. For Nesta, his return time is uncertain.]

Riguardo alla situazione dei portieri il Mister ha specificato che: ''Dida sarà pronto per l'inizio del campionato. Intanto ci sono Kalac e Abbiati. I dubbi verranno sciolti presto".

[Regarding the keeper situation: 'Dida will be ready for the start of the championship. In the meantime, there are Kalac and Abbiati. The doubts will soon be resolved.]

Paolo Maldini
"A Mosca farò il mio esordio stagionale, sto bene e sono pronto. In questo torneo faremo del nostro meglio".

[My season debut will be in Moscow. I feel well and I am ready. We'll do our best in this tournament.]

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