• Pierino Prati
• Filippo Galli
• Gino Maldera
• Fulvio Fiorin

Pierino Prati grew up with the youngsters of Milan. He was first sent to a C league team, the Salernitana, to begin his career. He began to play professional soccer there, taking the team to the championship and a consequent promotion to the B league. The next year he jumped to the B series team of Savona. From there he returned to Milan, where he played for seven winning years.
He has won:
2 Italy Cups;
2 Cup of Cups;
1 National Championship (1968/69);
the Champions Cup 1969;
the Intercontinental Cup 1970.

In 1967 he was also Top Scorer of the Italian championship.

From there he joined the Rome team, where he played for another 5 years before moving on to Florence (one year) and finally returning to Savona in series C, where his playing career ended three years later, in 1981.
Pierino Prati also played in 18 national matches, scoring 7 goals.
He still holds the record for goals (3) scored in a Champions Cup (Milan-Ajax, 4-1).
Wearing the blue jersey (Italian national team) he was European Champion in 1968 and runner up in the World Cup in Mexico in 1970.
Prati had numerous trainers during his long career; of these Swede Nils Liedholm and Nereo Rocco, the "Paron" are the most memorable.
Although he has "hung up his shoes", he has not abandoned the game. After participating in the "Super Trainer 1st Class" in Coverciano, he has dedicated his time to training boys.
For seven years he has been an instructor at the AC twin soccer school Milan.

Since 2007 he has become the AC Milan Official Supervisor in charge of one of the 5 hugest AC Milan football Schools (6-8 years old boys and girls) based in Milan.

Official AC Milan Hall of Fame
http://www.acmilan.com/infopage.aspx?id=85351

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Filippo Galli

Filippo Galli is one of the main reasons for the Milan victories throughout the years ’80 and '90. Born in Monza on 19 May 1963, he started in the A serie with the Milan team shirt on 18 September 1983 .
In his remarkably long career he participated to 15 Championships in the Serie A, attending 254 times (217 with Milan, 21 with Reggiana, 22 with Brescia), 3 Championships in the Serie B, 33 times with Reggiana and 70 with Brescia, 1 domestic Championship in C/1 attending 28 times with Pescara and 2 domestic Championships in C/2 with the Pro Sesto.

The longest period was with Milan, for which he played 37 times in the European Leagues, but above all he won 3 Champion Cups (1988/89-1989/90-1993/94) and 5 Italian National Championships (1987/88-1991/92-1992/93-1993/94-1994/95).

In his prize records it is good to remind of the 8 times with the Italian Team Under 23, the 7 times with The Italian Team Under 21 and the 7 times with the Olympic Team of Italy in Los Angeles in 1984. There are also two promotions obtained in the minor domestic championships: one from the Serie B to the Serie A with Brescia and 1 from the Serie C/1 to the Serie B with Pescara.

The official trainer of the Milan "Primavera" from 2006 to 2008.

In July 2008 Filippo Galli joined the technical staff of the AC Milan First Team and he is one of the two assistant coaches of Carlo Ancelotti. It was on charge in particular of the coaching of the AC Milan First team defenders.
Since July 2009 Filippo Galli has become the new AC Milan Youth Department Manager.
(http://www.acmilan.com/InfoPage.aspx?id=355)

Official AC Milan Hall of Fame
http://www.acmilan.com/InfoPage.aspx?id=83971

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Luigi (Gino) Maldera


Oldest of the Maldera brothers (well known with his brother Aldo, both ex-Milanists), he grew with the Milan juvenile teams to the category of Primavera. He then spent two years in Series B wearing the Monza and Verona jersey.
During the 1968/69 season he began playing in Series A upon his return to Milan.

Wearing the red and black jersey of Milan he played for 5 seasons, winning :
Champions Cup (1969);
the Intercontinental Cup.

From Milan he went to Catanzaro, during the Series A years of glory. He played for 6 seasons in Calabria, after which his playing career ended.
Since the end of his professional career Gino Maldera has worked for quite a few seasons with the juvenile teams of Milan.
Since becoming "Super Trainer 2nd Class" in Coverciano, he has dedicated his time to training the juvenile team of Milan, from the 1980/81 season to the 1996/97 season. He then became an instructor at the AC twin soccer school.

Since 2007 he has become the AC Milan Official Supervisor in charge of one of the 5 hugest AC Milan football Schools (6-8 years old boys and girls) based in Milan.

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Fulvio Fiorin

Born in Milano 13.11.1962, Fulvio Fiorin obtained the I.S.E.F. diploma in 1989 at the I.S.E.F. Sports Institute of Milano  (Università Cattolica) and the degree in “Scienze Motorie” (=science related to physical activities) in  2002 again at the “Università Cattolica” of Milano.

He was registered as a professional coach in the youth sectors:
•  For the Monza Soccer Club from ’89 to ’91 and from ’95 to ’99
•  for the Lecco Soccer Club in 2001
•  for  AC Milan from ’91 to ’95, from 99 to ’01  and from ’02 up to now

In his capacity as a trainer he was awarded two Italian Youth Championship (U16) and once the annual tournament of the B. Viola di Arco di Trento. Fulvio Fiorin is listed in the Register of journalists since 21/1/1999 and has been writing for the magazine "Il Nuovo Calcio" (The new soccer game) since 1993; as a speaker he attended several events (F.I.G.C. - A.I.A.C.), even international ones, regarding training in the soccer game; at present he is “Cultore di materia” (= teaching fellow) and Laboratory Lecturer at the Università Cattolica of Milano from the Academic year 03/04,  teaching  “Theory, technique and teaching in team sports (Soccer)”.

From the football season 2002, he had been the Coach in charge of the U14 AC Milan Youth Team.
Since July 2009 he has become the new coach of the U16 AC Milan Youth Team (more info).

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