Bolton Head To Italian Training Camp

Last updated : 30 June 2004 By Mark Heys
Michael Ricketts Takes On The Italian Defence (2002) Photo: Bormio Online
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Bolton Wanderers team will begin pre-season training tommorow with a trip to the Italian resort Bormio which has been the setting for the club to start their summer workout for the past couple of seasons.


Wanderers boss Sam Allardyce will take his squad, including new signing Michael Bridges and trialist Jordi Cruyff to the Italian mountains for the annual trip which began back in 2002.

Allardyce hopes the trip to Europe will prepare his players for the tough pre-season ahead of them which includes a quartet of away matches against League One sides Sheffield Wednesday, Chesterfield, Oldham Athletic and Bradford City followed by a visit from the Spanish cup winners Real Zaragoza in the first week in August. A visit from Scottish club Dundee United is also in the pipeline but as yet this has not been confirmed by the club.

Details of the Bormio resort can be found on the Official website which is www.bormio.co.uk, this also includes pictures of previous visits by the club to the mountains including their incredible 13-0 win over Bormio back in the summer of 2002.