The Spanish team is already on the other side of the pond. the hotel Embassy Suites by Hilton Chattanoogto Downtownin the state of Tennessee, Since last night it has been the headquarters of the European champion. And starting this afternoon, the fields of the Baylor School will be the training center where Luis de la Fuente and his players will prepare their assault on a new title and will seek to add a new star to their record, along with the one they won the July 11, 2010 in Johannesburg.
after the game against Iraq in Riazor and from the draw against the Lions of Mesopotamia, the team left this morning from the Rosalía de Castro airport, in Santiago de Compostela. The expedition had to make two flights, as it made a stop in Nashville before landing in the city chosen as the base camp for the first phase, Chattanooga, located on the banks of the Tennessee River. At around 10:30 p.m. he arrived at his destination.
Double session
After the reception at your hotel and the rest – with everything controlled from the departure to minimize the effects of jet lag -, the Operation Second Star enters its American phase.
“We arrived in the United States and entered a new dimension, another way of seeing things,” said the coach in the press room at Deportivo’s home.
The selection hotel.
Work in the fields of Baylor School It will start today with a double training session. The first, at eleven in the morning local time (six hours more in Spain), will serve to loosen the legs after the trip and as a first contact with the facilities.
In the afternoon, at six (midnight in Spain)the doors will open so that Chattanooga fans can see the 26 chosen by De la Fuente live. To get a free ticket, a registration process was opened and closed on June 1. Subsequently, a drawing was held with a maximum of two entries for each registered person.
After that event, all training sessions will be behind closed doors. The first stay in Chattanooga It will be brief, since tomorrow the team will travel again. In the morning you will train at your base camp, eat and, at six in the afternoon, head to Puebla. The second friendly of the preparation awaits there. It will be against Peru, in a match on a neutral field, but for which ticket sales are being very high, to the point that a full house is expected.
After the duel against the Andean teamor, on the night of the 8th – always in American time -, Spain will return to its headquarters.
And on the 10th, after a day of relative calm, with official photos for FIFA included, the team will put all five senses into the premiere before Cape Verde. There will be five days of training focused on that first match and with an eye on the evolution of the players who, following their recovery plan, did not participate in Riazor and whose presence in Puebla has yet to be decided: Víctor Muñoz -the one who arrived best in Las Rozas-, Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams.
like the beatles
The arrival of Spain in Chattanooga is compared in the city’s local press to the effects caused by the Liverpool group in the 1960s. “For soccer fans in Chattanooga, the arrival of the Spanish team is like waiting for the arrival of the Beatles for a teenager in the 1960s. Instead of John, Paul, George and Ringo, these stars are Lamine, Nico, Rodri, Pedri…“, reads in the Chattanooga Times.
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The mayor of the city, Tim Kelly, who received the team at the airport, estimates the expenses generated by the arrival of Spain at $600,000, which he assures are not a direct payment from the Spanish team, but rather a new item in the city’s budget that will be covered with the income from hotel taxes generated by the presence of Spain in the city.
“The money will be used to cover the overtime of police officers who coordinate the movements of one of the most famous teams in the world,” explains the independent mayor of the city, for whom European football, soccer, is something special because he is co-founder of the city’s team for this sport: Chattanooga FC.
