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Zinedine Zidane has several individualized training plans in her notebook to start as soon as her players pass the coronavirus tests. Between tomorrow and the day after, the white squad will undergo controls in Valdebebas . One by one, face to face with the club's doctors, the laboratory technicians and the LaLiga inspector, who has now become the guardian of the protocol that will guide the return to football. The teams, also Real Madrid , are preparing with more will than faith, because there are many doubts.

The return to the competition is far away, on that June horizon, with no date set yet. In fact, LaLiga has not yet informed how displacement between provinces will be possible before crossing Phase 3 of the Government's de-escalation plan. They understand in the clubs that they will receive a special permit for the necessary trips. This new logistics to maintain safety distances (in buses, planes, hotels ...) also has clubs worried.

"We are going day by day," they recall at Real Madrid, where they are busy preparing their facilities, already disinfected and ready for their professionals to start passing the expected tests starting tomorrow. These will mark the template map, the basic information that Zidane claims . From that moment, you will know if you can have all your strength for the individual training that should start immediately.

When? It depends on the time it takes to know the results, but on Saturday or Sunday the players could already have work on the pitch. The white coaching staff - who will also have to undergo the PCR test, like the selected employees - has designed a precise outline of the Valdebebas fields, where they will distribute the footballers. They have calculated that they could, in this first phase, carry out exercises four by four, each located in an area of ​​the sports city playground.

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Zidane and his assistants would be located at a safe distance, following the job. Then another batch of footballers would enter, in morning and afternoon sessions. The technician will detail the order of assistance for these first contacts. It will be more complex when training starts in small groups, where the risk of contagion increases. One of the possibilities that some physical trainers handle, especially in the final stretch towards the competition, is to try not to match several players from the same position to avoid that the virus, if it appears, seriously damages a specific position ( goalkeepers, wingers). , central, strikers ... ), with the setback that would be before a game.

Yesterday there was movement in some clubs, such as Deportivo , in the Second Division, with medical examinations of its staff. Javier Tebas , the president of LaLiga, showed his enthusiasm for the new stage. "Health is paramount, so we have a protocol to safeguard it. The circumstances are unprecedented, but we hope to start playing in June and finish our 2019/20 season this summer. To return is to win! ».

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