Real Madrid telework

The sports city of Valdebebas is today a ghost town. Madrid is in quarantine, determined to scrupulously fulfill the protocol after a basketball squad player tested positive for coronavirus. The soccer and basketball squads share several spaces in the luxurious sports complex. Restaurant and dining room, viewing room, gym, swimming pool, weight training and recovery room, recreation area (with games such as billiards, table tennis or video game consoles) and reception for family members … There are many spaces in common use . The closure of the activity in the Ciudad Deportiva also affects all white youth football teams.

The entire squad of Madrid must now be a minimum of 15 days in quarantine. Players will receive a call from the Madrid medical staff daily to monitor the onset of any symptoms and the entire team (including maintenance personnel and technical and medical staff), without exception, will be tested for the coronavirus. Carvajal and Nacho, who had a small flu a few days ago and who have already had it (negative in both cases) will have to repeat it again.

Footballers have been instructed to be confined at home and of do not leave Madrid under any concept. It is also advised that the forms be saved and that there is no exhibition of recreational activities on social networks. “We are in quarantine, not on vacation”, it came to be specified in a group talk.

Almost all the players on the squad have a gym in their homes. As it happens in preseason, the physical trainer, in this case Gregory Dupont has designed a specific plan for each of them that they must strictly follow. For the technical department it will be easy follow their evolutions because physical activity is now done with a device attached to the chest (a vest) that records a large number of parameters and sends them in real time to a central computer. System GPS is common in the world of soccer, but Dupont makes the most of multiple combinations They allow the accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope with which the vest with which the players play and exercise.

To that are added nutritional tips. Working at home does not have the same effects on the body in some soccer players as working in groups and directed, and Dupont does not want to take surprises on the way back with being overweight. On the other hand, and it is the only positive news, Zidane will be able to recover Marcelo and Courtois for when the return of the eighths can finally be played against Manchester City.

Many affected.

The quarantine in Valdebebas reaches almost 500 of the more than 800 workers that Real Madrid has on payroll. A few months ago, all corporate offices, including the entity's sports and general management, were transferred to the Sports City. (José Ángel Sánchez, for example, has his office there) and all the media of the club, also all the offices of attention to the member. As is happening in most companies in Spain, teleworking is being committed so that the activity of an ocean liner like Madrid does not stop. But in Valdebebas only the services remain indispensable as gardening and cleaning, and all common areas have been disinfected …