Real Sociedad will begin its preseason today in Zubieta while Mikel
Oyarzabal heads to Benidorm to integrate with Eric
Garcia, Dani
Elm, Pau
towers, Unai
Simon Y Pedri in the Olympic team that has been preparing its participation in Tokyo for days.
There is no rest for the Eibartarra footballer, who will arrive at the Olympic event with a whopping 56 games played and 3,664 minutes, which make him one of the most physically punished footballers with the Barcelona player Pedri.
The '10' txuri urdin has 326 days of competition since the preseason began in Zubieta on August 15th. Since then, Oyarzabal it has barely stopped. Only the coronavirus and a muscle injury knocked him out of action. Otherwise, the Eibartarra would have already exceeded 60 games and exceeded 4,000 minutes of play.
It was August 31 when Oyarzabal tested positive for coronavirus, forcing him to be confined to his home, missing two UEFA Nations League games against Germany and Ukraine in early September for which he was called up, as well as a friendly against Portugal in early October for the which was first summoned and then discarded by the UEFA protocol after a PCR test in which it gave a 'non-negative' result.
The covid made a dent in the txuri urdin and, although he managed to reach the league premiere of the Real in the Nuevo Zorrilla against Valladolid, Imanol He could barely give him a quarter of an hour due to his poor physical condition. Little by little he was gaining the prominence that he is accustomed to until on December 3, against Rijeka in Anoeta, he felt some discomfort in his right leg, which forced him to ask for the change. After being explored, it was observed that he suffered a grade I tear in the right semitendinosus muscle that caused him to be injured in the decisive Europa League clash against Napoli at Diego Armando Maradona, and in the league matches against Alavés. Eibar, Barça, Atlético de Madrid and Levante, reappearing on December 31 in San Mamés in the derby against Athletic, where they played 68 minutes.
Since then, it has not stopped, except for a friendly against the Netherlands in November in which Lewis
Enrique gave him rest to reserve him for the Nations League matches against Switzerland and Germany that were played days later, another qualifier for the World Cup in Qatar against Kovoso and the friendly preparation for the Eurocup against Portugal, two meetings the latter in which the coach left him on the bench.
Now Oyarzabal joins his colleagues in Benidorm Martin
Zubimendi Y Mikel
Merino. There he will carry out several training sessions until July 13, the day on which the team of Luis de la Fuente He will travel to the Japanese city of Kobe, where four days later, on the 17th, he will play a friendly against the Japanese team. On Sunday 18 he will travel to Sapporo, the venue for his first two matches in an Olympic tournament that will begin on the 23rd against Egypt, to continue on the 25th against Australia and on the 28th, against Argentina. If Spain qualified, they would play the quarterfinals on the 31st, the semifinals on August 3 and the hypothetical final on the 7th, eight days before the league start against Barça at the Camp Nou. That is Oyarzabal would add 357 days of competition in which he would only have had the rest week prior to the concentration for the Eurocup.