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TWENTY-THREE players have flown to London. The Emirates Cup will kick off on Saturday with the match between Arsenal F.C. and AC Milan. The official site of AC Milan has today released the squads of Milan who will take part in the tournament along with the Gunners, Lyon and Celtic. Milan boss Massimiliano Allegri has picked 23 players, including some Primavera stars because few first team players haven’t returned from their post-World Cup vacations. The likes of Pirlo, Pippo and Ronaldinho were left at home due to injury and fatigue while Kaladze and Jankulovski has not been selected because of technical reason. Thiaguinho and Huntelaar still on post world cup holidays. This is the squad that has flown to London: Goalkeepers: Marco Amelia, Christian Abbiati, Flavio Roma; Defenders: Michelangelo Albertazzi, Luca Antonini, Daniele Bonera, Alessandro Nesta, Massimo Oddo, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Mario Yepes, Gianluca Zambrotta;
Midfielders: Ignazio Abate, Mathieu Flamini, Gennaro Gattuso, Alexander Merkel, Mitja Novinic, Clarence Seedorf, Rodney Strasser;
Forwards: Dominic Adiyiah, Giacomo Beretta, Marco Borriello, Alexandre Pato, Simone Verdi. Against Arsenal, the Rossoneri will wear Black shirts, Black shorts, Black socks. Against Lyon, the Rossoneri will wear Red/Black shirts, White shorts, Black socks.
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