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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