고통에도 불구하고 박주영은 트레이닝을 계속했습니다. - Training session report September 25th

Rain and more rain welcomed Celta’s players arrival, and the weather didn’t seem to give a rest to the squad. After a day off training, as usual when they play at home on Saturday, Celta resumed training looking at a very busy schedule for the rest of the week. Today, Paco Herrera, planned a single training session, scheduled for 10:30 am. This was just an appetizer for what is going to happen the rest of the week. As the match against Granada will be played on Sunday at 12:30 pm (7:30 pm Korean time), training sessions are scheduled for every single day of the week until match day. Tomorrow, there will be a double training session. Celta will be traveling to Granada on Saturday afterwards.

As there is plenty of work ahead, the physical part of the training session was as intensive as usual. There was no touch of the ball at the beginning of the training session, and Park was paying a lot of attention on how the exercise was done by his team mates in order to be able to do it right. He nailed it the first time.

At this point, I started to have some doubts about the movements that Park was making, as he seemed to stretch his knee a lot. At first it just looked as he was just warming up, but he kept repeating this movement for almost every time he stopped. The answer came when, talking to Andres Tunez, he showed where it hurts, and the central defender did a replay of his goal celebration.

In the second part of the training, the focus was on moving the ball quick and cross it from each side. We could see some beautiful movements with this exercise, and a lot of shots at goal. As this part of the training had some physical training, players needed to wait their turn to start doing the routine scheduled for each position. Again, Park started moving his knee and was stretching it.

The conclusion is that due to his goal celebration, sliding the knees on the grass, he must have bruised his knee. The part of the area where he celebrated was very dry, and as soon as he got into the grass he stopped instead of slide, and that must have been giving Park some pain ever since. But the courage shown by the Korean striker is notable. He never stopped or slowed down on one single exercise. Regarding this matter, we will need to see how he evolves during the week, but it does not look as this is going to stop Park from being ready for Granada.

The positive note of the day was the happiness shown by Hugo Mallo, who has just signed an extension of his deal with Celta until 2017. The 20 years old Spanish U-21 international will be playing at Vigo for the next 5 seasons.