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The Vismara Sporting Centre
The “Peppino Vismara” Sporting Centre is located in the southern part of Milan, near the Gratosoglio area and it’s one of the most important places dedicated to the football activities in Milan. The centre is surrounded by a green area of 230,000 m² and it was built in memory of Giuseppe Vismara, the founding father of the Credito Artigiano. Solidarity, respect and loyalty are the values that the centre is trying to promote using sporting and recreational activities as moments of aggregation. All the training sessions of our Youth Sector take place here with the only exception of the Primavera team. The structures include:
• Fields. There are seven fields. Three regulation fields are synthetic (two of them were built by A.C. Milan with new materials provided by the Limonta company, a leader in this sector), a central field has an athletic track around it; there is also a regulation field and two 7 a-side synthetic fields.
• Covered Stand. It was built in 1982 and includes: terraces which hosts up to 1,200 people, dressing rooms (ground floor and first floor), warehouses, two physiotherapy rooms and a medical room. The stand was built in order to allow for further enlargements.
• Central Building. In the central building there is a Main Office, a Congress Room with 300 seats, a Conference Room with 50 seats, a Bar, a refectory and a Chapel. In the same area there is also a big multifunctional gym (basketball, volleyball, indoor football) with 1,000 detachable seats, an indoor pool for the rehabilitation and hydrotherapy.
The Vismara: not only a sporting centre
The Vismara Centre doesn’t include only sport facilities but also recreational and meeting places that promote a cultural, social and human formation. The philosophy of the Vismara Foundation resides in the willingness to train and educate players and individuals, by developing both technical and moral components in children. Since the 90’s the “Opera Don Calabria” has been in charge of the managing of the Centre. This congregation was founded by Don Giovanni Calabria in the 50’s with the aim of:
- creating training schools
- promoting activities for disabled
- ensuring an answer to the addiction problem
- proceeding with the religious activity
In the 1991 the congregation’s activity was moved entirely to the Vismara Centre and it’s now divided into four areas:
• EDUCATIONAL AREA: there is a building where the congregation hosts children (disabled and not disabled) placed in fosterage by the Juvenile Court of Milan in order to prevent problematical situations with their families. Some of these children reside permanently in the Assisted Living Facility, other children stay only during the day. In this area there are 25 teachers that promote activities to cambat the juvenile unease.
• HEALTH AREA: the main aim is the rehabilitation of the children, aged between 0 and 18 years, in the linguistic (speech therapy) and the physiotherapic areas (physiotherapy, psicomotricity, music therapy, cognitive therapy – Fuerstein method).
• STRUCTURES AREA: it refers to the Sporting Centre and all the buildings that can be let to third parties or can be used by Neighbouring Clients (Italian Sporting Centre, parishes) or by the teams of the centre (basketball, football). In the Centre there are also some aggregation activities such as conventions, courses, manifestations and parties.
• EDUCATIONAL/PASTORAL AREA: it refers to the moments of reflections and the education founded on the Christian spirit that’s at the base of all the Congregation activities.