The Real Madrid starts today at Sport City from Valdebebas more than just a preseason. The return of Carlo Ancelotti as a substitute for Zinedine Zidane six years after his departure and the departure of Sergio Ramos after not reaching an agreement to renew his contract mark Madrid's return to work, which will carry out all the preparation in Valdebebas due to the pandemic.
The Italian coach lands again in the capital of Spain in a complicated scenario for the white club, highly conditioned by its precarious economic situation and with only one new addition: that of David Alaba as a free agent. The context forces Ancelotti what you do best, adapt to what you have to get the best performance. It is also pending to resolve the future of several important pieces and to know what will happen to some of the loans that have no place.
For the first time in 17 years, the white team will start without the figure of Sergio Ramos, the captain and alma mater for almost a decade, despite the fact that he has been wearing the bracelet since the 2015/2016 season. Now the first captain of the Real Madrid will be Marcelo, to whom it corresponds to inherit the bracelet for being the player with the most years of experience in the team.
The age Ancelotti 2.0 will live today its first day in the Ciudad del Real
Madrid, where only 13 footballers of the first team are summoned to pass the pertinent medical examinations before exercising for the first time from 6:00 p.m. Lunin, Marcelo, Odriozola, Carvajal, Nacho, Mendy, Lucas, Isco, Odegaard, Jovic, Mariano, Rodrygo and Brahim They will start working together with 10 other homegrown players. The 12 players who played the America Cup and the Eurocup They will foreseeably join the preseason during the week of July 19. The Olympics
Vallejo, Asensio, Ceballos Y Kubo will return when their participation in the Games of Tokyo
At the controls of the physical preparation will be Antonio again Pintus, who returns to Madrid after passing through the Inter replacing Gregory Dupont. The Italian, who was in the Madrid in the first stage of Zidane on the bench, he has always been very well considered by the squad and by the leadership of the entity.