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Atlético de Madrid 2020-21 began their preseason preparation this Friday. He did it with many absences. Not only the cases of Santiago Arias and Diego Costa, both positive for coronavirus. But above all because of the non-presence of up to seven internationals.
Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak, the Croatian goalkeeper Ivo Grbic, the Croatian side Vrsaljko, English Kieran trippier, the Montenegrin Stefan savic, the Belgian Yannick Carrasco -pending to extend its assignment from the Dalian wanda Chinese to the rojiblanco team- and the Portuguese João
Felix.
A circumstance that has served for several mattress homegrown players to complete the first sessions. The final payroll is not completely defined because it will also depend on when the internationals join. That is, these same homegrown players can end up doing the entire preseason or stop being at some point in the preparation.
In any case, for now, those who are in these first days at the orders of Simeone they are the footballers with whom more or less counted in the past campaign. Many of them came to debut under the command of Cholo.
To the group led by the Argentine coach Diego Pablo Simeone For the ninth consecutive season since he arrived in December 2011, two players who returned from loan were added yesterday, one of them a youth squad, as is the case with the winger. Victor Mollejo, from Deportivo de La Coruña (the other was Nehuén Pérez, who played last year in the Famalicao Portuguese), whose futures are yet to be decided.
Canteranos like Ricard Sánchez, Manu Sánchez, Germán Valera or the Uruguayan Juan Manuel Sanabria, this time they worked on the same playing field, unlike the first session, when they did it in other facilities.
In the goal, however you want Jan Oblak and Ivo Grbic are with their respective teams, the Athletic he is counting on the goalkeepers Miguel San Román, Samuel Rodríguez Vera, Christian Gómez and Alejandro Iturbe Encabo.