Physical preparation, one of Hansi Flick's great challenges at Barça

The physical preparation will be the first big challenge of Hansi Flick in the FC Barcelona. The German trainer and his 'staff' arrive to a club that closed the past season with 22 injuries, 10 of them muscular and a total of 15 players affected by some physical problem, being the cases of Gavi and Alejandro Balde the gravest. The new Barcelona technician stood out in the Bayern Munich for improving the physicist of his footballers and the club trusts that these results will not take in retorting in Catalonia.

Many remember the transformation that showed Philippe Coutinho in 2020 during the little more than six months that was yielded in the Bavarian group that, then, directed the one of Heidelberg. In spite of the pandemia of the covid-19, the Brazilian lució a remarkable musculature in his go through Germany, in addition to keeping moved away of the injuries that mermaron his performance in his first months in Barcelona.

The calendar of the Barça shortens the margin of the physical work

However, attain emulate the usual physical work in Germany in Spain will not be simple. In the first place, Flick will have to begin the pre-season without the thickness of his figures, as 11 of his international will have at least a pair of extra weeks on holiday because of his participation in the Eurocopa and the Glass America, respectively. This will do that, recently to beginnings of August, the new technical body can have the complete staff to work.

With the start of LaLiga programmed for the weekend of 17 August, the 'staff' Barcelona will have to find the form to devote some days to the physical recovery, more no to the exclusive work associated to the muscular strengthening, as the priority is aceitar the idea of game that pretends to develop the ex seleccionador German. Besides, the demanding Barcelona calendar with the new format of the Champions can, even, reduce even more the quantity of trainings 'normal' for the club, that the past course reduced to a week and average (10 days) in the first-half of season.

The directive expects to reinforce the area of physical preparation

In spite of the factor time, the directive is doing his part with some adjust important in the area of physical preparation. In principle, Iván Torres, responsible maximum of the area in the 23/24, will leave his vacant charge, which could remain in hands of Pepe Calvo, current preparador physical of the Seville. Also they sound as 'reinforcements' Rafael Maldonado, of the Real Sociedad and Julio Tous, the one who worked during several years beside Antonio Conte focused in the physical strengthening. The aim of these incorporations? Modify completely the dynamics of daily work to combat the plague of injuries.