“In the dressing room you see joy, happiness … Because we have returned”

Admits Fernando Calero that “the first week is difficult to start”, but ensures that Espanyol closes the first 15 days of preseason “with better feelings” and looking forward to staying in Marbella. But not to get away from the families, but to taste football. “What we all like comes, rivals to compete with. The games are what help you prepare for the start of LaLiga ”, he explains on the club's channels.

The center-back squanders a desire that, according to him, the entire squad shares. “Have a lot of ambition and a lot of desire, we want to show that what we did last year we can continue to do this year. You look in the locker room and you see happiness and joy, because we have returned where we deserved to be”, Sentence. And for this, as he points out, even these first pre-season friendlies will be key: “I remember the last year's friendlies in Marbella, that we did very well and They served us for the beginning of the season that we had, which was spectacular, and that is what we want to repeat this year”.

“We all really want to show, to know that this year we have to get it right from the start and compete against First Division rivals, which is what we all want ”, summarizes Calero, who highlights the role of the fans, who will theoretically be back at the start of this season:“We need people, football is not understood without them. Let's hope that from the beginning they will be with us ”.