Glad to see that one Milan is doing good, even if it is the kiddies team

ahh i wanted to ask that recently we have had gud young defender like darmain stiker like paloschi even some midfielders david de gennaro but is there anyone who can be considered as milan keeper in coming years we need to get a keeper from the youth team bcoz on the market world class keepers are not for sale or either too expnsive while getting second graded keeper is no use so do we have a keeper in the youth team who can be considered the future like darmain or paloschi

Um, we have signed up a 20-year-old keeper from Brazil earlier this transfer season. He'll be staying on loan at his previous club to gain more experience, and will be unveiled next year. From what I hear, he's decently talented too.

there was no official thing abt that santos keeper i think his name was flipe

Milan sign nine-year-old
Thursday 25 September, 2008
Milan have signed a nine-year-old Mexican boy, who has already been compared to Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero and Diego Maradona.

In a piece of forward planning, the Rossoneri have pounced to secure the services of Edgardo Obregon.

The tiny trequartista had been learning the ropes at Guadalajara outfit Chivas where he has been nicknamed 'The Cat.'

Obregon impressed at the recent Milan Friendly youth tournament and was reportedly also approached by Barcelona.

“He's the heir to Messi, Aguero and Maradona,” Spanish newspaper Marca claimed.

Many of Europe's top clubs are recruiting players at a young age as the race to find the superstars of tomorrow becomes ever more competitive.

although he is really young but still it is gud we going for young players but yea this one is very young

Of course, it wasn't official. It was kept under wraps. But we'll know for sure in an year or two, yeah!


Good Lord! A 9-year-old. What's next, we'll sign babies before they're born? Most hype I've ever seen from a youngster, Pato and Messi included. I do hope he turns up well, even though I'm not too fond of Mexicans either. But still, 9 years of age! Oh well, strangers things have happened!

Maybe once he'll play with Cristian Maldini)))

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Our very own 'Generation Next', and who knows it may include the son of Ronaldo too.

I know you want to take a swipe at Galliani bro...but the thing is Galliani already gave that interview, I think 2 seasons back when he was saying that Milan are looking at being more like Arsenal than Real Madrid.

- I think it makes sense, because it is the only truly sustainable business plan. The trouble with the transfer season we had is, we're gonna require seasons like this every 3-4 years to maintain quality

- We realised, we have to be like Arsenal. Everybody cribs about Arsenal stealing youth. But in the long run it makes sense.




And if we got him at 9, we won't be having trouble with non-EU quota if he does develop to be good enough to play for us.

Baby Maldini update: young Christian's team (the Giovanissimi Regionali C) are so far undefeated in their games this season; they've only conceded one goal so far.

Well duhh...this kid was good enough to take the ball of Seedorf remember? One of the most technically accomplished players on the planet.

Actually, that was kid brother Daniel who dispossessed Seedorf with a classic Maldini slide tackle. Daniel's 7 now, I think. Next year he can start with the youngest of the Milan youth teams.

Oh.. shoot! Well I'm sure Daniel learnt from big brother.

Exactly. It was Maldini Jr. 2! And I'd half expect it was Seedorf's daughter in the video too. That is if I remember correctly, and Seedorf does in fact have a young daughter. But it was Daniel that's for sure who stole the show in that clip.

Ah! Sounds so Maldinish!


... and that little girl's heart!

So very true.

Well, at least Darmian's not being allowed to totally rust away. He's playing with the Primavera today in the primavera equivalent of the Coppa. Milan lead Chievo 1-0 at halftime.

EDIT:
FT result: 1-0. Yay for the primavera. (Albertazzi also played this one).

Davide di Gennaro is playing for Reggina in their (grownup) Coppa game v. Udinese right now. It's scoreless in the 72nd.

Di Gennaro was called up by Casiraghi for the U21 game next week against Germany.

And Darmian was called up for the U20s.

So...there are two Milan-owned players in the U21 side - Paloschi and Di Gennaro. Hope to see them both do well. (The other 2 strikers called up are Palermo's Lanzafame and the cugini's Balotelli).

Hmm....thanks 10.

So, lots of folks have been wondering just how many kids are out on loan or how many former kids are out there playing. Here's a brief roundup of some of the former Primavera and how they did at the weekend:

Ignazio Abate - midfielder - (Torino): Voto 6

Davide Di Gennaro - midfielder - (Reggina): Voto 5.5

Luca Antonelli - midfielder - (Parma): Voto 6.5 (serie B.)

Alberto Paloschi - striker - (Parma): Voto 6 (serie B.)

Willy Aubameyang - striker - (Avellino): Voto 5.5 (Serie B.)

Daniel Offredi - goalkeeper - (Pro Sesto): Voto 7 (Serie C1 - rumors that Grosseto of Serie B is interested in him)

Romano Perticone - defender - (Livorno): Voto 6 (serie B.)

Simone Malacarne - midfielder - (Pizzighettone): Voto 6 (Serie C2)

Riccardo Caraglia - midfielder - (Pizzighettone): Voto 6 (Serie C2)

i always thought luca anotnelli was CB and i hope we get one of youth team GK for our main team

The Giovanissimi C are doing rather well so far this season. They're undefeated (10 wins), have scored 29 goals and have conceded ONE. Yesterday they won the Citta d'Imperia tournament, again without conceding a goal. In the first of 3 games in the tournament, one of the 12 goals Milan scored was by a young defender named Christian Maldini.

Ha!

Ole!
See him in a few years time - when he meets the big boys, and honors the family name !

I would just like to say that since it is extremely unlikely we will be able to tempt a world class defender away from their club we must make every attempt to try and groom our own youth players to become world class players. Whenever i see Juve's youth squad i am almost always jealous, especially in the way they intergrate them into the squad. While we will never be able to get Chiellini or the next big defending star (Santacroce/Criscito) we need to develop our players. It would be a shame to neglect Darmian or Albertazzi because i believe that at least one of them can go all the way

Here's this weekend's report card for the ragazzi out on loan:

Ignazio Abate - midfielder - (Torino):Voto 6

Davide Di Gennaro - midfielder - (Reggina): Voto 6

Matteo Ardemagni - striker - (Triestina): Voto 5.5 (Serie B.)

Alberto Paloschi - striker - (Parma):Voto 6 (Serie B.)

Romano Perticone - defender - (Livorno): Voto 6.5 (Serie B.)

Daniel Offredi - keeper - (Pro Sesto): Voto 6.5 (Serie C.)

Alex Guerci - midfielder - (Pergocrema): Fornisce sostanza al centrocampo. Voto 6 (Serie C.)

That's the one I'm interested in. Thanks for sharing this, Ten.

Abate is one of the very few Toro players getting consistently good marks this year. The press at least really like the kid.

Offredi has been getting consistently high marks -- 6.5 on the Italian scale is pretty high for a goalie and 7 is...REALLY good. Sure, it's for a Serie C team, but he's apparently really doing quite well.

whoearthepatriots can probably offer some elaboration on how young Alberto is doing at Parma since he's the resident expert.

Speaking of young Alberto, he's gone in in the 29th min of Parma's game v. Citadella. The game's still scoreless (in the 35th).

EDIT: +1 cookie to Paloschi for the gorgeous goal he scored in the 74th (so far the only one of the game).

Parma won the game, 1-0. They're temporarily in first place in Serie B (the majority of B games are played on Saturday).

That's my next favorite player, right than and there! Forza Paloschi!

This is the first goal Paloschi has scored in a while for the Crociati

Exactly, I think he has three to his name (including this one).

Note: Parma played the entire second half and the last few minutes of the first on 10 men. They had a guy sent off right after Paloschi came on. Talked to someone who watched the game and they said young Alberto's goal was really quite good and that he played well throughout.

heres Channel 4's take on the Parma game Paloschi late goal hero....hes learning from the king Super Pippo !!

Parma 1-0 Cittadella

Paloschi’s late strike gave 10-man Parma a precious victory over giant-killers Cittadella to end 2008 on a high. The Gialloblu’s 13-match unbeaten run was ended last week and it looked to be another stumble when the minnows had the better of the first half with Bonvissuto going close, Reginaldo picking up an injury and Falcone’s dismissal for a reaction foul on Meggiorini. Parma survived Volpe’s header thanks to a stunning Pavarini save and moments later Paloschi ended his goal drought by nodding in Antonelli’s cross at the back post.

Scorers: Paloschi 74 (P)

Sent off: Falcone 38 (P)
Parma: Pavarini; Troest, Falcone, A Lucarelli; Castellini, Morrone, Mariga, Kutuzov (M Rossi 46), Antonelli; Reginaldo (Paloschi 29), C Lucarelli

Cittadella: Pierobon; Turato, Pesoli, Cherubin, Teoldi; Volpe (De Gasperi 86), Castiglia, Iori, Carteri (Oliveira 80); Bonvissuto (P Rossi 70), Meggiorini

Ref: Pinzani

Attendance: 9,353

(picture from Mediaset)
Young Alberto today.

Aww thanks Tennie he so reminds me so of Inzaghi in his early days the young look i meen when Inzaghi was at Parma and Atalanta the enthusiasm even is goal celabration is the same !!!
Forza Alberto may he score many many many more !!!!!!


http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/1528103.jp...930FDCFC4C15FBB

The Parma-dress collar looks...like...I don't know, like it's from "Alien".

That thing on his neck is a neckwarmer type thing. Parma have a standard collar

Oh yes, now that you've said it I see. Well,...it's not looking good IMO, but it's irrelevant if he scores more goals.

Is he watching Spiderman 3?

if i am not wrong then antonelli is also milan co-owned

Yeah hes Co Owned with us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Antonelli

He's let his hair grow, think it looked better short. Hope he comes back to us next season, Forza Palo!

Here's a somewhat belated report on how the former Primavera players did last week:

Alberto Paloschi (Parma): Voto 6.5 (Serie B.)

Luca Antonelli (Parma): Voto 6 (Serie B.)

Matteo Ardemagni (Triestina): Voto 6 (Serie B.)

Romano Perticone (Livorno): Voto 6.5 (Serie B.)

Ignazio Abate (Torino): Voto 6.5

Daniel Offredi (Pro Sesto): Voto 6 (Serie C)

Alex Guerci (Pergocrema): Voto 6.5 (Serie C)

Emanuele Orlandi (Carpenedolo): Voto 6 (Serie C)

Simone Malacarne (Pizzighettone): Voto 6.5 (Serie C)

Also of note: Former Primavera centerback Andrea Cosner is currently at Seire C side Reggiana on a co-ownership deal, but Serie B side Ascoli apparently want him in January.

The kid's grown up!

Wow, look! He really has! Thanks for posting, zd! (AND WHY DID ZAMBROTTA SHAVE HIS HEAD!?!?!?!?!)