A Rabbit in Appiano Gentile

16 year old José Alves (who goes by the "Nom de Guerre" of "Coelho") is settling in well at Inter Milan, he claims to be highly respected due to his Portuguese Nationality (who he represents at U-17) because in Inter's Juvenile Team (in which he is the only player with a professional contract) the kids look up to Figo and as a result respect Coelho because of it.
He says unfortunately has has different training schedulles than the A-Team and is yet to meet his idol, Luis Figo.
Training in Italy is quite different from Portugal (just ask Ricardo Vaz Té), there's less emohasys on the technical aspects and more physical conditioning and he claims during pre-season he trained as much as 6 hour a day.



André