Dfter 10 days of concentrating on Swiss and a week of work in the Luis del Sol Sports City, which will close tomorrow with the friendly against Wolverhampton in the Municipal of La Línea de la Concepción, the Betis they will be able to England next Monday to carry out a second ‘stage’ in a very special setting.
Betis, from July 26 to 31 at the headquarters of the FA
The Verdiblancos will spend from July 26 to 31 working in the spectacular facilities of St. George’s Park, the house of English football, where the national team directed by Gareth southgate, runner-up in the Eurocup disputed this summer. An elite complex just over half an hour from Derby, city in which the team of Pellegrini will play one of the two friendlies scheduled during his stay at Britain.
The St. George’s Park, built in 2012 with an investment of 105 million pounds on an area of more than 130 hectares of the countryside of Staffordshire, is the home of the national soccer teams of England. It has 14 outdoor soccer fields, including a replica of the surface of Wembley, a 3G covered pitch, recovery areas, an indoor futsal court and first-rate facilities for the teams of the English Football Association prepare your various international commitments.
St. George’s Park: training, study and improvement
The place where the Betis will hold its second preseason rally also hosts the England Football Learning, where the training courses for the national coaches of the FA. While the training areas have cutting-edge technology and state-of-the-art machinery to provide the teams visiting the complex with the best facilities for their work.
St. George’s Park It is also the headquarters of Outdoor Leadership Center, managed by Grahame Robb Associates, where development programs are offered in different areas related to sports such as leadership, management and team building. Facilities that are completed with a hotel Hilton with 228 rooms that has a spa, conference room and centers for business meetings or celebrations.
In addition to 14 outdoor soccer fields and one covered with a certificate FIFA Quality Pro, the facilities in which the Betis advance in your summer preparation have a large gym with state-of-the-art machinery, a cardiovascular fitness room with stationary bikes, treadmills, rowing machines and ski machines, a strength and power room, a hydrotherapy room, a rehabilitation with anti-gravity tape and a spectacular 60-meter indoor athletics track with three lines to work on acceleration.
With this extraordinary environment at your disposal (except for the facilities that are reserved by the FA for their teams), the Betis will take one more step to try to arrive at the best possible preparation point for the league premiere on August 14 in Majorca. A few days of work in England which will be complemented with the dispute of two friendly matches in which Pellegrini will start giving minutes to players who have joined the preseason later.
On Wednesday July 28, from 6:00 p.m., the Verdiblancos will meet in Pride Park, just over half an hour by road from its concentration in St. George’s Park, to the Derby County FC, team of the Championship English. And three days later, on Saturday the 31st, they will travel 45 minutes by bus to the Loughborough University Stadium to see faces with him Leeds United who drives Macelo bielsa and in which the exbetic militates Junior firpo.
Then the Betis will fly back to Seville before starting his third and last ‘stage’, in Marbella, where he works to play a fifth friendly match against a team of First before closing its schedule of preparation meetings on Saturday, August 7 at the Benito Villamarin before the Rome of Jose Mourinho, a duel that will serve as a presentation of the Verdiblancos to their public and as a test for the return of fans to the Heliopolitan stadium.
Virtual tour of spectacular St. George’s Park
The facilities of St. George’s Park of the English Football Association, open to the public for use with an infinite number of rental modalities, have been chosen by numerous clubs in the Premier League over the years for their preparation or by teams from outside England such as the Barcelona, who carried out part of his summer work in this complex between 2014 and 2016. But in addition, they have hosted more than 6,200 events since their opening for brands such as Nike, BT, Continental, Molson coors, Vauxhall, etc.
On their official website they offer an impressive virtual tour in which to get to know the complex in detail, which dedicates several of its football fields to historical players of the English team (Bobby charlton, Alan shearer, David beckham, Michael Owen, Dick bat, Gary Lineker, Paul Ince, Kelly smith, Gordon banks…), in addition to a video of what will be the elitist house of Betis next week.
