It is easy to see who wants to take a step forward and who does not. In the case of
Atlético de Madrid
, of their players, the personal sacrifices that footballers make a little mark their character and desire to succeed. It is the case of Thomas Lemar.
The French international knows that there is a lot of play in the season that is coming. Long enough to have advanced his preseason, so to speak. The footballer will join the preparation with the first mattress team this week, but he has been exercising for almost a week as if he were already with the Athletic.
Normally, the mattress coaching staff provides food and physical activity guidelines to the players so that they reach the preseason with a base that helps them not suffer so much and to be able to work to the maximum as soon as possible. But in the case of Lemar, your training goes beyond the established guidelines.
For almost a week, the footballer has been spending his vacation in Fall, France, team that came from his Guadeloupe native being just a teenager. Your choice has not been accidental because there you will find a physical trainer you trust who is being your guide in this set-up.
A very demanding set-up in which he has been seen working on exercises of strength, explosiveness, balance, resistance, climbing hills and stairs … exercises with the ball. Come on, all that is to be found when it is put in the hands of the Profe Ortega.
A DECISIVE SEASON
In the case of Thomas lemar There seems to be no doubt that he is not willing to get off the winning train that he jumped on last season. And that in the present will have more competition because it is assumed that Joao Felix he will recover the level that he could not have due to the injuries that marked his season. For example. Or in case Atlético end up signing a striker with a higher profile – case of Griezmann, for example,
He will also have pressure because in the last matches of the mattress team last year, which he could not play due to injury, Simeone ended up overtaking Carrasco to attack positions and the Belgian was one of the best. In that circumstance the competition for the positions of the band and of the forward, with Suárez, the ‘9’ that arrives, Joao Felix, Correa -key in the last part of the course-, Carrasco Y Llorente (plus own Lemar), it will be fierce.
In the past year, after a mediocre start in which the player was about to leave due to his performance, he was already considered lost, he starred in one of the most interesting recovery stories in recent times. To finish playing 36 games, 1,627 minutes, with 21 starts, two goals and four assists.