Large smiles and small hand signs addressed to the curious come to accompany their first steps. Back to school took place in a good mood this Monday morning for PSG players. After fourteen weeks far from the training center of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, it was with radiant mines that Thomas Tuchel and his troops found the Camp des Loges under a circumstantial sun.
Delighted to find his base camp, the German coach was the first to appear at 8:30 am sharp. Relaxed and smiling, the technician opened the ball of a long parade. After Leonardo, the sports director, crossed the grid shortly before 9 a.m., it was at regular intervals that the Parisians came out.
First of all, the young people: Loïc Mbe-Soh, Arnaud Kalimuendo, Garissone Innocent, Timothée Pembélé, Marcin Bulka and Mitchell Bakker were the first to come to submit to the tests and recover their equipment. Then Draxler, Paredes, Herrera, Choupo-Moting, Kehrer, Kurzawa, Kimpembe, Icardi, Marquinhos and the others, all came to spend a maximum of one hour in the premises.
Leonardo on his arrival #PSG (Credit LP / Olivier Corsan) pic.twitter.com/wDCMSSZefF
- Le Parisien - PSG (@le_Parisien_PSG) June 22, 2020Arrived shortly after 9:35 am, Angel Di Maria did not drag himself on the spot since at 10:05 am the Argentinian had already left the place. A flash passage that did not prevent him from submitting to the requirements of this first visit devoted to the Covid-19 screening tests. Like its partners, El Fideo also left with the health kit supplied by the club, including a mask with the PSG logo.
The emperors' march
Impressed by Leandro Paredes' new Italian racing car, the Spaniards Sergio Rico and Pablo Sarabia took a little more time to talk about mechanics.
Keylor Navas, Mauro Icardi and Thiago Silva meet again. Costa Rican goalkeeper has a small bandage on his left arm, a sign of a blood sample #PSG pic.twitter.com/2MQY0XIy8b
- Le Parisien - PSG (@le_Parisien_PSG) June 22, 2020Arrived a little later, Marco Verratti and Thiago Silva obviously did not meet either Edinson Cavani or Thomas Meunier, some starting, among the 27 players to have succeeded. After hugs with Marquinhos, Thiago Silva has however discovered a new face in the person of Maxime Coulerot, the new performance director.
In charge of the youth and reserve teams since 2008, Coulerot had left Paris to join Monaco in 2016. He returned to the capital four years later to succeed Martin Buchheit, whose adventure was interrupted with the health crisis.
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Very close on the ground, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar are also on the road. The two Parisian stars closed the emperors' march, arriving at a little minute apart just before 11 a.m. An unshakable closeness since ten minutes later it was barely sixty seconds apart that the two men took the road back to the end of a back to school very smoothly.
