Inter Milan are expanding their Academy portfolio, agreeing a partnership with IT.Sports to launch a series of football schools throughout Brazil.

IT.Sports will manage project development while Inter will provide coaches and the programme.

Worldwide, Inter Academy now has centres in Belarus, China, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Slovakia, Uruguay, Argentina and Hungary, and the club says it has more than 20,000 young players, 450 local coaches with 30 Italian coaches taking part in the project – in China the club has seven academy projects.