"This is hell" says Fernando Torres in a video summarizing the experience of Atletico Madrid in Los Angeles de San Rafael (Segovia), the pre - season destination to charge the batteries. Suddenly, someone crosses the plane and brings a smile to the front. "There 's the culprit!" He exclaims. This is Oscar Ezequiel Ortega River, known as "the Prof" Ortega, trainer of the team that last Saturday at the Bernabeu ran eleven kilometers rival (119 by 108). And that hardly any recovery time between the trip to Eindhoven to play with PSV in the Champions League and Madrid derbi . Simeone's men, for calendar requirements, have had to play four games in ten days. Today finish the marathon at the Calderon against Real Sociedad.
If your battery is not exhausted, largely thanks to the work of the "Profe" Ortega, born in Montevideo 57 years, Penarol fan and lover of his land satiric Murga, cousin of Cadiz chirigota. "Balance, balance ... What happens is that Vietto is more destabilized the dollar in Argentina" with his booming voice blurted the young striker at its first meeting, when he could barely stand on an inflatable disc. A kind of torrential, severe (speech , "I do not want fags, we are Atletico!" ), But also as a loving father ( "Those are my boys. A step champion!" ).
Train another rhythm
According to club sources, for the "Profe" two weeks of concentration in Los Angeles de San Rafael they are sacred , the imperative for the team to play as trains, start blaring. Gym early. At 9:30, career in the golf course between holes 11 and 12. And then recreate the exercises situations that may occur in games , developing aerobic power in both the functional part as neuromuscular, bringing consumption oxygen to the maximum. " It is a hard model to assimilate because it forces train a very high rate , " admits Ortega. "And then there is healthy competition with fellow".
A pique given even in practice games with the template, such as "catch- up " or Rondos, in which none of his boys want to lose. "We are competitive even at that," they confessed in their environment. The demand and encouragement go together. It is also very rigorous for food and rest.Bernabeu's game followed a bathing session and recovery. Training before the match against Real socidad was not yesterday morning at the Ciudad Deportiva de Majadahonda, but in the afternoon at the Calderon.
Ortega admits that became at 21 years 'abroad I am', globetrotter who has taught their lessons in Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Japan ... and Spain. He finishes his third round at Atletico. He came Marcos Alonso early in the century and returned with Gregorio Manzano in his first stint as coach when Simeone still wore short. there they met the Cholo and "Profe". Both have now contract with Atletico until 2020.
Tough opponent
Simeone is likely to make some rotation against Real , leading to Gamez by one of the sides and Óliver by Koke or Gabi. Also in the front could have touches: Vietto or Torres Correa. Griezmann, who faces his exequipo seems fixed. Sum 20 goals in all competitions and at the Bernabeu broke its longest losing streak of the season (five games without scoring).
The Royal Society is not easy rival. It takes five straight games without defeat and recovered Illarramendi and Jonathas , essential competition to the Brazilian striker Imanol Agirretxe low predictable. The central Inigo Martinez will miss through suspension.
