Between November 20 and December 18, the eyes of the football planet will focus solely and exclusively on the

World Cup in Qatar

.

32 teams and

832 players

who will assume the media spotlight on the ball.

Nothing more will be discussed.

But on

December 21

, just three days after the World Cup final, the club competition will return in Spain with the dispute of the

second round of the Copa del Rey , from which

Real Madrid, Barcelona,

​​will still be exempt .

Betis and Valencia

.

And the last weekend of the year, the

15th day of the League

.

A stumble on those dates will sound some of the alarms for most clubs, who will want to reach the '

hill' in January

in the best possible shape.

In the first month of 2023, Spanish football will face the

round of 16, eighth and quarterfinals of the Cup

,

four rounds of the League

and the

Spanish Super Cup

in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).

There is no pause after the World Cup and there is a question that many fans ask themselves:

what will happen during the break with the footballers

who will not be in Qatar?

A month of vacations?

A month of training without games?

Trips?

Friendly?

The 20 Santander League clubs have chosen

different plans

for the coming weeks.

Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​the teams that have loaned the most soccer players for the World Cup and that will have the fewest troops in their sports cities, have given

their non-internationals

between two and three weeks of vacation .

The white

team will return to Valdebebas on December 1

, while the Catalans are summoned on the 5th.

Atlético

will take the lead and will be on the pitch on

November 28

.

In the case of

Ancelotti

's men , the coach will grant

10 days of vacation to the World Cup players

when they are eliminated, something similar to what Xavi will do.

Madrid, against Castilla;

Barça, against Arsenal

Carletto

, who admitted a few days ago that his team arrived a bit "tired" for the last matches before the World Cup, is only planning for the moment

friendlies against Castilla

before facing Valladolid on New Year's Eve.

Barça, however, is negotiating a duel against

Arsenal

, leader of the Premier.

The physiotherapists of the two greats, like the rest of the teams in the championship, have left clear instructions to the players who are not playing in the World Cup: they will have to do

specific routines

at home so as not to completely lose shape during these weeks.

Some of the doctors will also be international, such as

Profe Ortega

, Atlético's coach, who has gone with the

Uruguay

team .

Tours and 'stages'

Some teams will take advantage of the break to try to gain impact in other countries.

Betis

is this week in South America, where they have already played against

River

Plate

in Argentina and will face

Colo-Colo

in Chile.

For their part,

Rayo Vallecano and Villareal

will travel to

Turkey

, where they will face Fenerbahce and Galatasaray at the beginning of December.

Both tours are an initiative of LaLiga, which with this seeks "

notoriety and visibility for the clubs

", according to sources consulted, in addition to maintaining "physical form" during the break.

According to the organization chaired by Javier Tebas, these matches will serve to create "new forms of

fan engagement

(meetings with

influencers

, events or excursions) and increase business development, in line with the LaLiga Impulso project."

They will not be the only ones that will leave Spanish territory, since

Real Sociedad

will fly to

Leeds

to face the Premier team.

In the rest of the clubs, the idea is to hold a

mini-preseason

in their sports cities or, at most, hold a small 'stage' in some region of the country:

Osasuna and Espanyol will move to Girona and Murcia

in mid-December.

The Spanish teams will also take advantage of the arrival of several

French, English

or

northern European

teams to the peninsula, where they will carry out their own tour.

Pending further confirmation,

Manchester United

will play at the Nuevo Mirandilla in Cádiz,

Nottingham Forest

at the Mestalla and

Anderlecht

at the Reale Arena in San Sebastián.

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