Holidays 69 games and 347 days later

That the squad of any of the Primera teams is already on vacation is not news except for the exception of Sevilla. And it is that those of Lopetegui will finally be able rest after 347 days in a row competing practically non-stop. This is the time from the Seville-Betis of June 11, with which it was resumed last season after the pandemic stoppage, until Seville-Alaves last Sunday, with which LaLiga threw the curtain.

Since then, Sevilla ended fourth last league, lifted the Europa League in August, rested just over a week, and began preseason of a course in which he has made history. Those from Lopetegui have repeated fourth place in the regularity competition and, as if that were not enough, they have achieved the point records of the club's history in it.

In between, a European Super Cup what he escaped in extra time after having been able to win it on the last play of the regulation 90 minutes, a painful elimination in the semifinal of the Copa del Rey against Barcelona, ​​a lesson of pride to stay at doors from go up to the Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League and a month of illusion for his parish when it seemed that he could get into the fight for the title.

After two successful seasons but marked by the peculiarities of the coronavirus, the Sevilla squad, with Lopetegui at the helm, to enjoy a summer of apparent normality before starting the third year of the project. A third year, in which the objective is to go one step further.