After a Sunday off following the big opposition delivered on Saturday, the Blues gently returned to training this morning, before gradually moving up in preparation for the first test which will be played in Mendoza.
After a good Sunday devoted to recovery after the very muscular opposition that pitted the 42 players against each other on the superb facilities of the San Isidro Club (before bringing them together around a magnificent asado honored by the presence of the former Parisian pillar Rodrigo Roncero), the Blues resumed their week gently, with a bodybuilding-stretching-cardio session in the Club Atletico Obras Sanitarias structures, just a few hundred meters from the Stadio Monumental de River Plate whose name has inevitably made the most “football” dream. Physical exercises carried out in the middle of a crowd barely surprised by their presence, during which Fabien Galthié’s men did not push the machine, before an equally soft “clarity” training on the nearby field of the Liceo Naval, the military school of Buenos Aires.
Olympic Midi – Arnaud Beurdeley
It is in fact only during the days of Tuesday and Wednesday that the XV of France will intensify their efforts, and ramp up before the tough test that the Pumas will oppose them near Mendoza. In the meantime, the Blues, still in football mode, have planned to meet in the living room of their Emperador hotel, where they will remotely follow the match of Kylian Mbappé’s teammates against Belgium. Before thinking (just a little bit) of avenging them during their test match against the Pumas in this country where the cult of the god Messi is anything but a myth, the image of the icon appearing on every street corner of Buenos Aires.
