After seven months without traveling abroad, Real Madrid will return this Thursday morning to catch a flight to leave the Spanish borders. The last time, he did it to win the Spanish Super Cup in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and by then nobody expected that the situation of the Covid-19 would be so delicate. And for this reason, precisely, the trip of the whites will be very different from the rest of those carried out in recent years.
Starting mainly because both the players and the coaching staff must travel with the corresponding masks despite the fact that the air cooling of the airplanes is one of the most effective against the virus. The ventilation system renews the cabin air every two minutes, and the filters it uses are capable of retaining 99.997% of the particles the size of the coronavirus.
Beyond that, when they land in England – a country in which each traveler from Spain must remain in a preventive quarantine of 14 days but from which Madrid is exempt – whites will be able to travel to their concentration hotel, The Lowry. , one of the most luxurious in the city located 4 km from the Etihad Stadium.
When the time comes for training and the pre-press conference (18:15 local time), the squad will once again get on the coach on the way to the stadium in true NBA style and the bubble that has been created in the basketball league American. Once the training is completed, the Whites will return to the hotel, spend the night and, the next day, they will repeat the same operation to play the game and, after that, return to the airport to fly to Madrid.
It will be thus the trip of a Real Madrid that hopes that Manchester is not the last destination of the season but that it is Lisbon, place of the final to eight, where it hopes to be from next week.