Today is a crucial day in determining if AC Milan will be able to register an U23 team for the 2024-25 season because of the regulations relating to Serie C.
As MilanNews report, the 5-2 defeat against Roma in the friendly last week in Perth gave Daniele Bonera a taste of being a head coach after a previous three-game spell filling in due to the Covid absences of Stefano Pioli and his assistant in 2020-21.
The management have identified Bonera as the right man to entrust the U23 team to and he will work with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jovan Kirovski to try and make the project a success. The main doubt, though, pertains to when it will be launched.
The deadline for submitting registrations for the next Serie C tournament will is midnight today (11 June for clubs protagonists in the final stages of the play-offs), and Milan are hoping that at least one club do not register.
There are doubts about four clubs above all who are going through difficulties, mainly financially. Ascoli, Foggia Lecco and Turris are those with question marks surrounding them, amid ownership changes and various other issues.
However, all clubs have outgoing owners who have committed – at least with words – to completing the procedure. So, the Rossoneri are essentially hoping that one of the four clubs has a change of plan.
As per the FIGC regulations, a second team can only be registered in the third division ‘on organic completion’, i.e. if one of the 60 eligible teams fails to register for the next Serie C season.