The time for the preparations for the new season is a very strenuous one for the players with little time for breaks. WERDER.DE this Sunday followed the Green-Whites step for step...
The time for the preparations for the new season is a very strenuous one for the players with little time for breaks. WERDER.DE this Sunday followed the Green-Whites step for step...
The time for the preparations for the new season is a very strenuous one for the players with little time for breaks. WERDER.DE this Sunday followed the Green-Whites step for step and found out there is no easing off on Sunday.
6:52 a.m.:
The automatic wake-up call by reception rings in the players’ rooms! It’s time to get up.
7:08 a.m.:
In the courtyard, each player picks out the bicycle with their number on it.
7:15 a.m.:
The coach gives the starting signal. It’s time to head towards the beach. Everyone was on time, the mood is good!
7:27 a.m.:
The team is standing along the water and waiting for the starting signal! It is windless – that is good and bad at the same time. There may be no headwind but there is also no tailwind. And they’re off!
8:12 a.m.:
Only a few metres left, then you could refresh yourself a bit in the water, but there are two camera teams and two photographers at the finish line. So you can’t totally relax!
9:26 a.m.:
Breakfast, reading the newspaper and then heading back up to the room. There is not a lot of time left!
11 a.m.:
The first training session on the pitch begins.
1:15 p.m.:
Lunch – that is a quiet 15 minutes. Simply relaxed eating.
1:32 p.m.:
Press talk – for one or two players it’s time to talk to the journalists.
2:10 p.m.:
Now it’s time for afternoon break. Into bed and sleeping until 4:45 p.m. and getting some more energy.
5:03 p.m.:
Back onto the bike to go to the pitch four kilometres away – second session on the grounds!
6:31 p.m.:
Did it! The last training of the day is over with. Now just get back on the bike and return to the hotel. After that it’s leisure time!
