Yesterday Russian champions' holidays expired and they started preparing for the season-2000. 26 players gathered in Tarasovka. Only Tchuise, Kebe and Robson were absent among old players. Afro-americans couldn't arrive as 70% of flights to their continent are cancelled in winter. The Brazilian player decided to change the club. No rookies were present on the meeting yesterday. |
The players started their first working day visiting their doctor Jury Vasilkov, where they were weighted and their pressure was measured. The results were favorable - no one had overweight. Another good news - Kuprijan and Bezrodny totally recovered from their traumas and started training with the rest of the team. Kalinichenko recovered too, but according to doctors' recommendations he will work on trainers yet. |
Yet there are still many problems to be solved: forward Sonin will stay in Leverkusen in doctor Pfeiffer's hospital. Goalkeeper Goncharov who was recently operated will join the team in Turkey in January. The coaches are planning to find new potential players. |
First search for 10 rookies will be held in Sochy, the team is going there this Wednesday. Simultaneously the same procedure will take place in Moscow for the second team. Selection will cover such countries as Brazil, Nigeria and Balkans. The process is to be finished after the Commonwealth Cup. |
After the medical survey the players held first training in the season, which lasted about an hour and represented a mini-tournament. |