Atlético will follow a travel and training plan this summer. A plan different from others where Simeone, a great Kabbalist, follows the previous steps in search of repeating results. But the health situation rules, all conditioned by the global pandemic, in this second summer with COVID. Without major foreign tours, like last season, the rojiblanco team's base of operations will be Cerro del Espino, Majadahonda. From there he will leave, play and return in just a few hours. It happened in Burgo de Osma, Soria, in that game that, as every year, closes the first part of the rojiblanca preseason. It will happen today, with the Salzburg duel.
Atlético will issue the call for Cholo this morning, around 11:00. A list in which there will continue to be many homegrown players, all of whom have been with the Argentine coach during the first weeks of his stay., and the footballers of the first team the same. Oblak, Hermoso and Saúl as the main names, with Savic injured and Kondogbia confined. Vrsaljko and Lemar, who arrived last Thursday, could enter and have their first minutes in this preseason while footballers like De Paul, Giménez or Carrasco, last to arrive, will continue in Madrid, wearing down at the stroke of 'Profe' Ortega's timer. Atlético will travel to Austria in the morning, hotel, stadium and return to the airport, to arrive in Madrid at night. On Saturday, the same with the duel in Germany. Ready in the morning, travel in the day and back too. And on August 4, for Carranza, too.
Without the 'new' in the last session
Atlético exercised for the last time yesterday afternoon at Cerro del Espino without the presence of the group of the last to arrive (Those De Paul, Giménez and Carrasco who did sweat in the morning with the continuous running of the 'Profe') and with Lemar and Vrsaljko with the 'guys' from Cholo. Nor did João Félix, who continued his recovery in the gym, according to Felipe in a storie, the latter, by the way, did not jump from the beginning to exercise with the rest of the group.