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Forum SupporterFIF Special Ones10 years of FIFTraining camp in Lugano - Panoramic swimming pool, 3000 square meters spa and loads of amenities... Sounds fun right? No, Conte will make the players work
The first activity when the players arrived in Lugano was eating, but don’t get used to it. Inter’s preseason training camp began with a social dinner at 8 pm but despite the location, a four-star hotel with 3000 square meter spa and panoramic swimming pool, this week will not be fun like at a resort. Returning from vacation to prepare for new season never is fun, especially more so this year with Antonio Conte in command.
Players arrived at Appiano Gentile between 5 and 6 pm. Those who showed up early like Skriniar and De Vrij stopped by to take pictures with the fans (there were about 100 loyalists). Then a black and blue Lamborghini came roaring in, it was Icardi. Then everyone got on the bus to be on their way to Lugano: single rooms only at Villa Sassa, a complete order of the club.
Training sessions will start in the morning on B1 and B2 training pitches of the Cornaredo stadium, a couple of kilometers away. Conte wants to make the most of this week (six days of training plus one match) in Switzerland, because then the tour in Asia zooms in and training with regularity and continuity will not be an easy task. Inter will have double session every day and today the players will start with athletic tests.
Conte wants to convey his tactical concepts right away which is way training will be held behind closed doors. But his staff will also lay the foundations for athletic work, on strength and responsiveness.
Antonio Pintus and Julio Tous, extraordinary pair of fitness coaches that will completely transform Inter
Antonio Pintus is nicknamed “The Sergeant” and the players will spend plenty of time with him this week. The 56-year-old arrived at Juve when he wasn’t even 30 yeas old to be their conditioning coach. Fernando Morientes described him this way: “He is nice, he is kind, but he is also a bit of a bastard. My weight was always 83 kilos and he made me go down to 79 in three weeks when I was in Monaco. I have never been as hungry as when I was with him.”
Pintus will make you run, not all the work will be with the ball or in a training match. But the fruits of it are seen, players are more fresh in key moments, winning can make you forget about fatigue. And then they started to become attached: from Vialli, Deschamps, Zidane and Conte himself.
The longevity of this trainer is because of his ability to always put himself on the line, adapting to the environment and dealing with changes in the fitness world but at the same time he is able to maintain certainties. “It is thought that training with the ball is enough to work a player into shape but I believe that the truth is somewhere in the middle as it’s necessary to work both without and with the ball,” he said.
Besides Antonio Pintus, another key figure within Conte’s staff is Julio Tous Fajardo, another former Juve employee. He is researcher and trainer specialized in strength. He wants the players to be “ready and reactive like cats.” His previous working experience was with Barca of Rijkaard and with tennis player Nadal.
His motto is “strength rejuvenates, resistance ages.” In his early Juve days, he surprised players because he did not think about warming up or stretching. Tous has thousands of exercises for all muscle groups and prefers mobile weights to machines.
The first activity when the players arrived in Lugano was eating, but don’t get used to it. Inter’s preseason training camp began with a social dinner at 8 pm but despite the location, a four-star hotel with 3000 square meter spa and panoramic swimming pool, this week will not be fun like at a resort. Returning from vacation to prepare for new season never is fun, especially more so this year with Antonio Conte in command.
Players arrived at Appiano Gentile between 5 and 6 pm. Those who showed up early like Skriniar and De Vrij stopped by to take pictures with the fans (there were about 100 loyalists). Then a black and blue Lamborghini came roaring in, it was Icardi. Then everyone got on the bus to be on their way to Lugano: single rooms only at Villa Sassa, a complete order of the club.
Training sessions will start in the morning on B1 and B2 training pitches of the Cornaredo stadium, a couple of kilometers away. Conte wants to make the most of this week (six days of training plus one match) in Switzerland, because then the tour in Asia zooms in and training with regularity and continuity will not be an easy task. Inter will have double session every day and today the players will start with athletic tests.
Conte wants to convey his tactical concepts right away which is way training will be held behind closed doors. But his staff will also lay the foundations for athletic work, on strength and responsiveness.
Antonio Pintus and Julio Tous, extraordinary pair of fitness coaches that will completely transform Inter
Antonio Pintus is nicknamed “The Sergeant” and the players will spend plenty of time with him this week. The 56-year-old arrived at Juve when he wasn’t even 30 yeas old to be their conditioning coach. Fernando Morientes described him this way: “He is nice, he is kind, but he is also a bit of a bastard. My weight was always 83 kilos and he made me go down to 79 in three weeks when I was in Monaco. I have never been as hungry as when I was with him.”
Pintus will make you run, not all the work will be with the ball or in a training match. But the fruits of it are seen, players are more fresh in key moments, winning can make you forget about fatigue. And then they started to become attached: from Vialli, Deschamps, Zidane and Conte himself.
The longevity of this trainer is because of his ability to always put himself on the line, adapting to the environment and dealing with changes in the fitness world but at the same time he is able to maintain certainties. “It is thought that training with the ball is enough to work a player into shape but I believe that the truth is somewhere in the middle as it’s necessary to work both without and with the ball,” he said.
Besides Antonio Pintus, another key figure within Conte’s staff is Julio Tous Fajardo, another former Juve employee. He is researcher and trainer specialized in strength. He wants the players to be “ready and reactive like cats.” His previous working experience was with Barca of Rijkaard and with tennis player Nadal.
His motto is “strength rejuvenates, resistance ages.” In his early Juve days, he surprised players because he did not think about warming up or stretching. Tous has thousands of exercises for all muscle groups and prefers mobile weights to machines.
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I guess that, starting from today, “finally the players will sweat” (as the cliché goes).
If I may suggest, to make it through grueling training sessions, those involved in the “project” could use the same fanatic spirit and attitude with which Lele Adani goes running in the morning. In his own uncensored words from a few weeks ago, combining faith and garra charrua:
“Praise be to the Lord, who makes us know fatigue and suffering, to reveal the fighting spirit... and the resistance... VAMOS, CARAJO, LA PUTA MADRE, WE NEVER QUIIIIT”.
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The good Orialli , the bad Conte and the ugly Marmotta... Just in Italian version the ugly is in front of the bad...
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The good Orialli , the bad Conte and the ugly Marmotta... Just in Italian version the ugly is in front of the bad...
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10 years of FIFIm really starting to have a good feeling, even only watching Conte with Oriali and Pintus. The train session from today, the new shirts.. all this shit. After the press conference of yesterday my feelings about this team are diffrent. Im sure that we will see a diffrent Inter this year. Im expecting to see a team which we can be proud of, nothing else. Im not asking for the scudetto, i know it's not easy. But if we can fight with Napoli and Juve, i would be already happy for this first conte year. I want a team where opponents knows that they are playing against Inter, one of the top clubs of the league that is playing for the scudetto. I don't want to get dissapointed because of some stupid things like losing against Sassuolo or something like that. Or watching a team that starts to fall appart starting from December. I have good feelings, we can avoid all this things and can start to be competitive again after 8 years. I really can't wait for the first Serie A match. The hype is already starting....
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