Jesús Augusto Sarcos Romero: Barcelona and Real Madrid Had Comprehensive Training


Jesús Augusto Sarcos Romero: Barcelona and Real Madrid Had Comprehensive Training

EFE | BARCELONA.- The Barcelona team trained this week, for the first time, with all of its international players, as it was only yesterday that the last 7 missing players returned from their stints with their respective national teams.
Marc-André Ter Stegen, from Germany, Jasper Cillessen, from the Netherlands, Philippe Coutinho, Arthur Melo and Malcom Felipe de Oliveira, from Brazil, Ousmane Dembélé, from France and Arturo Vidal, from Chile, trained today with the rest of their teammates for their League match against the Sevilla, the current leading team.

During the morning training sesión, Barça B players Riqui Puig, Oriol Busquets, Juan Miranda and Juan Brandáriz “Chumi” also participated, alongside the rest of their teammates.

Real Madrid isn’t worried


The return of all the international players, after their stint with their respective national teams, alongside the presence of Welshman Garteh Bale, also kicked off the Real Madrid training season, their fourth one, which aims to prepare them to face the Levante team in tomorrow’s League match.

Like this, Costa Rican Keylor Navas, Belgium-born Thibaut Courtois, Frenchman Raphael Varane, Brasilian Casemiro, German Toni Kroos and Uruguay-born Fede Valverde, finally got the chance to train with their teammates.

The best news for technician Julen Lopetegui was seeing French-born Karim Benzema and Bale finishing their preparatory phase.

Alavés pays a visit to Celta de Vigo


A fully prepared Alavés Sport Club will face off against the Celta de Vigo in a match that will, today, open the ninth season of the Spanish League in Balaídos. The Galician team will face a fully-trained Alavés, which hopes to end a streak of bad results that have left Argentinian technician Antonio Mohamed in a difficult position. Abelardo Fernández fantastic team’s dynamics have resulted in a single loss for his team, out of the past five matches – a great contrast when compared to the Celta’s records, which has not had a single win in the same period of time.