Cathal Heffernan ended his season at AC Milan by making his debut at ‘Primavera 1’ level - and by training with first-team stars such as Zlatan Ibrahimović and Olivier Giroud.
The Cork City youngster, who only turned 17 last month, made a shock loan move to the Serie A giants earlier this year, with a view to making the move permanent this summer.
Since his switch he made almost 20 appearances at underage level, but yesterday he made the step up to a side made up mostly of Under-19s and older reserve team players.
