Centro Sportivo Angelo Moratti Explained

Centro Sportivo Angelo Moratti
Nickname:	Pinetina
Location:	Appiano Gentile
Type:	Football training facility
Built:	1960
Opened:	1962
Owner:	FC Internazionale Milano
Capacity:	300

Angelo Moratti Sports Centre (in Italian: Centro Sportivo Angelo Moratti), currently known as BPER Training Centre in Memory of Angelo Moratti for sponsorship reasons, is a football training facility, owned by Inter Milan. The training ground is placed on the outside of Appiano Gentile, a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35km (22miles) northwest of Milan and about 12km (07miles) southwest of Como. The facility is commonly known as the Pinetina.^[1]

The centre is used as a training ground for the Inter Milan men's team.

History

The construction work for the training ground started in 1960 under the Great Inter chairman Angelo Moratti and coach Helenio Herrera. The facility was ready for the 1961–62 season, and has been used uninterruptedly by Inter Milan since then.^{[2] [3] [4]}

In 2016, the centre was renamed Suning Training Centre in Memory of Angelo Moratti (in Italian: Centro Sportivo Suning in memoria di Angelo Moratti) for sponsorship reason.^[5]

In 2024, the centre changed name after Suning relinquished the ownership of the club, with BPER Banca acquiring the naming rights; it has since become known as the BPER Training Centre in Memory of Angelo Moratti.^[6]

Training complex

The training area includes:

• five regular playing fields, of which:
  • two of reduced size;
  • one with a mobile pressostatic cover, used in case of cold and bad weather;
• a swimming pool that allows counter-current swimming and hydro massage;
• two gyms for heating and muscle building;
• a medical room;
• five locker rooms;
• two warehouses.

The media center includes:

• a hotel;
• two offices;
• a parking garage;
• the press room, which can accommodate up to 30 journalists, for press conferences;
• the Inter TV television studios.

External links

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Inter, la Pinetina intitolata a Suning. Per Moratti e Facchetti solo una menzione . 20 December 2016 . Tuttosport . it-IT . 15 January 2020.
2. Web site: Centro Sportivo Angelo Moratti . Inter.it . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080725070542/http://www.inter.it/en/speciali/pinetina/index.html . 25 July 2008 . 25 July 2008.
3. Web site: Il primo fu Il Mago, Orrico portò la gabbia . Piva . Gianni . 14 November 2009 . la Repubblica . it . 15 January 2020.
4. Web site: Photos: Helenio Herrera - at home in Appiano Gentile . Inter.it . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200115101901/https://www.inter.it/en/news/2010/04/10/photos-helenio-herrera-at-home-in-appiano-gentile.html . 15 January 2020 . 15 January 2020.
5. Comunicato di F.C. Internazionale . 20 December 2016 . . Italian . 15 July 2017 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170716075644/http://www.inter.it/it/news/77843 . 16 July 2017 . Inter.it.
6. BPER acquires training centre naming rights and becomes training sleeve partner . 5 July 2024 . . 11 July 2024 .