After the announcement by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, that the confinement will last fifteen days more than initially planned, at Barça they also began to modify the road map, aware that the situation is still going to be long and that the time that the players will have to continue working alone and at home will be a minimum of one month. The concern revolves around physical preparation. Who more or less is aware that what footballers are doing during the time of confinement is totally insufficient, especially if we talk about the needs of an elite player, since it is doing general maintenance.
In fact, the forecasts that physical trainers have is that they will need a minimum of two weeks to recover their pre-coronavirus crisis status, as announced by AS. Taking into account that the initial schedule that LaLiga is studying is to start in mid-May, the specialists are working under the plan to start training next Monday, April 27. From the club it is recognized that it would be the most optimistic scenario, because today everything is pending on the evolution of the pandemic, but physical trainers are obliged to go ahead in events to prevent there from being a relaxation or a lack of intensity in the players work.
Likewise, the official announcement by Naples to resume training on March 25 has been very surprising within the club, especially because the situation in Italy is much more problematic than in Spain. It must be remembered that the Neapolitan team is the rival of Barça in the Champions League and that the second round remains to be played at the Camp Nou, where Setién's men start with a relative advantage by achieving a draw (1-1) on the way. In the club they are very clear that the health of the players is above all and they will not make the decision to restart the activity until the authorities end the house confinement and those responsible consider that a sufficient period of extension has elapsed to restart the activities.