EN IMAGES. Toulouse FC launches its summer preparation, before its return to Ligue 1
By Quentin Marais
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That’s it ! Toulouse FC has found its way back to the fieldthis Thursday, June 23, 2022. The summer preparation is sent back, and must accompany the troops of Philippe Montanier until the beginning of August, and return to Ligue 1. After five and a half weeks of vacation, the reunion was accompanied by big smiles.
Talk and football…
It was around 10:20 a.m., under the sun of the Pink City, that the players met on one of the stadium’s annexes. Smilethey were able to exchange a few words before coach Philippe Montanier took the floor.
A chat of just under 10 minutes, before a “Vamos” launched by the former coach of Real Sociedad: it’s time for lapsto start the warm-up.
The 22 players present for this recovery then gathered in a small perimeter to thicken the warm-up. Philippe Montanier’s troops appeared very concentrated.
Before almost an hour of balloon
For just under 50 minutes, the group was finally able to touch the ball. The players alternated between juggling and ball handlingfor a quarter of an hour, before coming face to face, in pairs, and chaining the passes.
Philippe Montanier’s proteges then performed “toros”, in groups of 5, two then a touch of the ball. Under the clouds, but not without chambering: the first teasing between teammates has begun!
A few sprints to finish
Finally, and for 20 minutes, the two goalkeepers ended their session apart, while the rest of the team, divided into groups of four, put the canes, and this at higher intensity. Before meeting around the central circle.
No Realey, van den Boomen or Dupé
Anthony Rouault, Ado Onaiwu, Stijn Spierings, Rasmus Nicolaisen, Brecht Dejaegere, Bafodé Diakité… many players in the rise of Toulouse FC were on the field this Thursday morning. But three big absentees were missing: Branco van den Boomen, Rhys Healey and Maxime Dupé. At a press conference, Philippe Montanier explained that they “carried out tests. We alternate between land and tests imposed by the LFP”. The first only joins the group during the Navata stage, “for private reasons”. As for the last two, they were already back on the pitch this Thursday afternoon.
Departure Sunday 26 for Navata
Until Sunday June 26, Toulouse FC is preparing on the Ile du Ramier, before joining Navata, in Spain. ” We leave Sunday afternoon“, announced Philippe Montanier, in a press conference.
“Out of five players from the academy, as I usually do at the start of the season. We will leave with 24 players, and four goalkeepers“, continued the technician. First friendly match on July 2, at the end of the camp, against Nîmes.
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