Sports: Real Madrid return to training ahead of planned La Liga restart
Real Madrid’s players returned to work at the club’s
training ground on Monday ahead of the planned resumption of La Liga next
month.
After finding no positive cases from tests for coronavirus
last week, Madrid’s players arrived at Valdebebas to train for the first time
in two months.
Madrid was one of the first clubs to go into quarantine
after a basketball player tested positive for coronavirus on March 12, the same
day La Liga suspended all competitive fixtures.
But after almost nine weeks training at home, Zinedine
Zidane’s players initiated the first phase of La Liga’s training programme,
that includes players working individually, with a maximum of six on a pitch at
once.
“Divided into two rotations and on various pitches, Real
Madrid footballers carried out their first individual exercises with and
without the ball,” the club said in a statement, with several photographs of
the players in action.
Eden Hazard was among those pictured running, the Belgian
returning after undergoing surgery on his right foot in the United States on
March 5.
Thibaut Courtois, Gareth Bale and Marcelo were also training
alone while Zidane wore a mask as he gave out instructions.
Madrid preferred to wait until Monday to begin training
again, after other clubs like Barcelona, Sevilla and Villarreal resumed on
Friday.
Barcelona are two points ahead of Real Madrid at the top of
the table.
La Liga’s plan is for players to progress through a
staggered schedule that will see them train alone, in small groups and then
finally in larger team sessions.
The league’s president Javier Tebas told Movistar on Sunday
night he hopes games might be able to restart behind closed doors on June 12.
Tebas said the remaining 11 rounds of La Liga matches would
be played over 35 days, with fixtures on every day over that period.
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