The FC Barcelona coach spoke to the media before this Saturday’s game against Madrid CFF
“I don’t know if any of our players will be called up with the national team [española]”
Women’s football is experiencing gray days due to everything that has happened in recent weeks: the referees’ strike, the controversy with the sanctions for the cards and the crisis in the Spanish team. However, at FC Barcelona the players have found a ‘refuge’ where they can escape all controversy and both they and the coaching staff only focus on “training and improvement” of the team.
so i explain it Jonathan Giraldez for the media in the preview of this Saturday’s match against Madrid CFF. He stressed that “if I told you last week that it had been one of the best weeks at the training level, this has been even better”. The man from Vigo assured that he “does not know” if any of the players will be summoned by vilda for the friendlies that La Roja will play against Sweden and the United States on October 7 and 11.
In the event that it is confirmed that the fifteen soccer players who informed the Federation that they preferred not to be summoned for “health issues” -among them, six azulgranas-, he acknowledged Giraldez that “yes it is something that would benefit us because then the players would not have as much exposure, so many trips and we could adjust the loads here at the training level. It is something that does not depend on us, we will see what the list is, here we are going to prepare the week with those that are available.
Aitana and Emma are still not discharged; Salma and Paños, work on the sidelines
Aitana Bonmati She was the first to train. She did it individually as part of the recovery process from the discomfort she suffers in her quadriceps. She was not in training Emma Ramirezwhich is still not discharged, and both Salma Paralluelo What Sandra Cloths they trained on the sidelines, which will be absent for the match against Madrid CFF.
About the Aragonese, who was about to debut in Vila-real but finally stayed on the bench, Giraldez He assured that “she has had problems since the end of last season, something she also had in the U-20 World Cup. We are gradually including her in the team. She is young and needs to adapt. She has not improved much compared to last week.”
The speed dial challenge
Barça receives this Saturday a Madrid CFF that, after an irregular season last year in which they achieved salvation, has started its journey in this league on the right foot and has added six of six points. For Giraldezthe challenge is “finding the best version of the team throughout the game”, because, he acknowledges, “in the first two it was difficult for us to start”.
It will be the last duel before the national team break and it will be played in a Johan Cruyff who has hung up the ‘sold-out’ sign again.