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Zidane prepares Madrid to compete with himself

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Zidane, how Quique Setién, Simeone and the rest of the coaches have the physical risks that must be assumed in the return of the League. After long inactivity and individual and group training, without friendly matches, there will be injuries. A week before the League resumes they had to stop Messi, in Barcelona, ​​due to a contracture in the quadriceps and Gareth Bale, at Real Madrid, for muscle overload. Thus in more teams. With rotations and five changes, efforts can be prevented and dosed on an extremely compressed schedule. The physical response is crucial. The mental strength in each of the players can be definitive to acclimatize to the new scenario they have to face. Zidane, for example, decided to simulate a match at the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium, with the players uniformed in the clothing of an official match, to familiarize themselves with competitive pressure that can be confused with that of training. It is not easy. The challenge is in adaptation and in competing against oneself.

Footballers will suffer alterations during games due to the absence of an audience in the stands. Lack of atmosphere results in a decrease in high intensity that must be projected by elite professionals. It is one of the first conclusions that the coaches of the League are drawing when they check as in Germany situations that are unusual occur. It has been reduced number of fouls and cards in the Bundesliga. It is as a consequence of a decrease in tension and distractions. Concentration decreases and the number of errors increases. Confusion appears. These are the symptoms offered by football without an audience and to which Spanish teams have to adapt when the League resumes and they are the stage of emptiness and loneliness in the stands which negatively affects performance.

More factors will come into play. Physical preparation is the basis for supporting a compressed calendar and quality will make all the difference. The energy of the legs and the individual talent will serve to unbalance the duels. But it is certain that in order to achieve this intensity and maintain a high competitive level regularly, it is essential that each player become his own rival. It is one of the conclusions that Pako Ayestarán, the coach who on October 1, 2017 was on the bench at UD Las Palmas and played in a deserted Camp Nou. “The public is an important factor in generating intensity. Spectators cheer, scold, provoke reactions in the players that requires them to be with more tension and plugged in. This is going to lose with games without an audience. It is being viewed in Germany. It is more difficult to maintain intensity in this type of meetings without atmosphere and noise to which the teams are accustomed. Only the footballer who is special and who competes with himself will be able to maintain that intensity with which to make a difference, ”he explains to El Confidencial.

The example of Michael Jordan

The Gipuzkoan coach has the experience of having played at the Camp Nou without an audience, motivated by the conflict that was experienced in Catalonia with the referendum, and reflects on the problems and difficulties that his professional colleagues will encounter. “There are many players who are not going to be able to maintain that intensity enough because their efforts, reactions and concentration depend on the stimuli that come from the stands. This will not exist and that loneliness, that absence of people, will cause many to not give the plus at important moments. They will lower the level of tension and energy and we will check who are the different ones. As for example it happened with Michael Jordan, now that we are seeing his figure in the documentary of de The Last Dance ’and we can get an idea of ​​who he was and how far he went. These types of athletes, who are extremely competitive and challenge themselves, continually need to excel. “. They are the ones who really can’t bear to lose even in training. Of this species, there are not many.

The solution, as a coach who has lived this experience comments, is in each footballer. Competing against yourself It is a good recommendation for those who are irregular in the effort and often fall into relaxation or absent-minded for lack of an environment that motivates them or makes them alert. Probably to Messi, Luis Suarez, like Sergio Ramos, Casemiro and players like Diego Costa or Saul, or Raúl García in Athletic Bilbao they are not affected by the emptiness in the stands. They do not need impulses from the outside. They are cases of natural and insatiable competitors who feed on their own greed to be in permanent tension. With aggressiveness and talent, knowing how to read what the party needs and how to break it. Many other footballers will suffer, at some point, the double laziness: physical and mental.

We enter the terrain of personality and mindset. The psychological section. With the character, tenacity, claw and temperament above the rest, the lack of incentives that fans favor and against is compensated. “The public is an important motivating factor and to really compete you have to have that environment that takes something more from the footballers and that now disappears. Perhaps this is why the field factor in home games is being lost, as we see in Germany, and in Spain it may favor the smaller teams. In front of an empty bleachers the players will not notice the pressure, but those who have that competitive hunger in their heads will triumph ”, reflects Ayestarán.

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