The arrival of FC Barcelona will mean a change in the customs of the inhabitants of the small German town of Aasen, located in the middle of the Black Forest, almost a hundred kilometers from Stuttgart. To begin with, the hotel where the team will be concentrated, the Der Öschberghof, a five-star luxury resort with three golf courses and 45 holes that will surely dazzle Koeman, has been fortifying itself in the last hours, with the presence of several security members, belonging to both the hotel and Barça, as well as the provision of a series of fences around the perimeter of the main hotel building to prevent visits from possible curious.
This afternoon, club employees SV Aasen, where Barcelona will train in the coming days, they were distributed over the four playing fields to safeguard the entire perimeter, around 900 meters, with two-meter fences, which were also covered with black tarps and other advertising . Everything to safeguard the team from the eyes of others.
AS has been able to visit the training field before Barcelona put the field to fade in black. The situation is ideal: it is less than a kilometer from the hotel, the pitch is impeccable and the temperature in the training sessions, scheduled for ten o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the afternoon, will not exceed 25 degrees.
In any case, so much zeal on the part of Barcelona is surprising when they find themselves in the middle of the German forest, with hardly any fans – in the vicinity of the hotel there were barely ten followers to receive the expedition – and with very little media presence.
Barcelona has closed the next training sessions in Germany tightly and tightly, partly hiding behind the sanitary regulations due to the pandemic, but also to be able to work without prying eyes. Of the nine training sessions that will take place, only two will be allowed access and only fifteen minutes.