(PHOTO: Stefano Gabbana, Pato, Massimiliano Allegri and Domenico Dolce)
MILAN – The book CAMPIONI was lauched yesterday evening. A volume of portrait photographs of 67 footballers under 25, all of whom posed in front of the lens of Domenico Dolce, for the first time in the role of photographer.  
The book is available to the public, as of yesterday, from the Dolce&Gabbana boutique and Rizzoli bookshops. From autumn 2012 the volume will be found in all the best book shops. 
Proceeds from the book will go towards AriSLA, the Italian Foundation for ALS research. 
The aim of the AriSLA foundation is to make investment in the ALS research more efficient, with the goal of accelerating relapse recovery time and offering the sufferers increased hope and better conditions and longer life expectancy. 
Posing for AC Milan were: 
Ignazio Abate, Kevin Prince Boateng, Rodrigo Ely, Alexander Merkel, Antonio Nocerino, Alexandre Pato, Rodney Strasser and Mattia Valoti