The second AS Roma Canada/Genova International Campus has begun in Toronto, seeing over 250 Canadian players through its camps. The full time Academy will begin in October 2009. You can register on the AS Roma Canada website: enrol now, as places are very limited.

Genova International players starred in the charity game played at Toronto FC headquarters last night in front of an audience of 10,000. The Canadian All-Stars played Zidane and Friends in the first of three exhibition games to be played in Canada by Zinedine Zidane and other European world championship players.

Genova International players Julian Uccello and Mathew Macri each scored a goal, with Johnny d'Amato and Marcel de Belis putting in worthy performances to see a fine 3-3 result. You can read a full report from the Toronto Star here.

International GISS star Theo Markelis has scored a hat trick for Valencia cf in a 4-1 defeat of the Belgium national u17s, in a official friendly game at the Valencia cf headquarters. This season Theo has scored 14 goals in 17 appearances.

This morning GISS Melbourne player Nick Terezakis has left Melbourne for Italy for trials with Serie A club Genoa and one week with serie B team Vicenza Calcio, where he will join up with GISS Canadian player Mathew Macri, who spent this season with the primavera (reserves) team of Vicenza Calcio.

GISS was pleased to be able to play a role at the charity fundraiser soccer game in Churchill organised for the victims of Black Saturday. Three GISS players, Steven Maselli (18yrs), Josh Tanti (20yrs), and Peter Labros (14yrs) participated, in front of many special guests. Below, GISS director Morris and Melbourne Victory's CEO Geoff Miles are seen displaying the Hyundai A-league Championship trophy 2009.

Morris's comments: "It was a great day, especially to see so many participants supporting this event."

Genova International is proud to announce the successful completion of the 9th AS Roma Campus in Melbourne, seeing over 140 participants attend, including the exclusive 2 day clinic with Trinity Grammar School. Attendance at these campuses now totals over 1100 Melbourne based players in two and half years.

Director's comments: "I think this 2009 March Campus was a great success, and the two AS Roma coaches who left for Italy last night left very impressed, and can't wait to come back to see the players again! I'd like to thank the staff and the volunteers for helping this become another great success."