Felipe Mattioni, right-lateral in Brazil's Gremio club, will play for AC Milan this season, said Andreas Krieger, vice-president of Gremio, on Wednesday.

"The president (of Gremio) Duda Kroeff has just informed me that he received a call from the athlete's agent, saying that he would leave for Milan," said Krieger.

"The contract that the player had with Gremio is automatically terminated", he added.

Mattioni had been negotiated by Gremio with a group of businessmen last year, by around 3 million euros. The precedent agreement was that he would continue to play for Gremio till the end of the Libertadores Cup, in the middle of the year.

If Mattioni goes to AC Milan, Gremio will receive ten percent of the sum Milan pays for him.

(Xinhua News Agency January 15, 2009)