It rains in the capital, and therefore in the sports city real madrid In Valdebebas, but members Washington leaders They dance under the storm clouds, celebrating as if it were a pagan festival. With full volume rapping, something … Which is unimaginable in a European soccer training session, where the Americans kick hard, evade contact given to them by their coaches and ferociously attack crossbars that mimic the opponent’s defensive line. All before over 70 ingredients His crew merges into a chaotic crowd after finishing the final rehearsal of the session. They look like wild horses roaming in the meadow. Some even ask for a standing ovation from the stands where the national and international press are located.
Just watch two training sessions from Washington, OR Miami Dolphins To realize the amount of material that both groups brought to Spain. Logically the infrastructure in our country is bad because it is an area that has nothing to do with discipline and most of the tools come with them on board. “Sleds” (push sleds), “dummies” (treatment dummies), helmets, shoes, video cameras, polycarbonate shoulder pads, radio-frequency-permeable balls and medical equipment, among many other paraphernalia, made up the more than five tons of luggage that crossed the Atlantic with each set. Although, as they admit, Madrid braveA professional American football team from the Spanish capital provided part of its equipment to facilitate its preparations for Sunday’s match.
In addition to financial support, the teams also brought in professionals from their home countries. As confirmed by the Dolphins player Bradley Chubb During a press conference at the Metropolitano, some of his teammates were accompanied by trusted masseuses and physiotherapists to Madrid and, as they said, it was the players themselves who bore these expenses. “You have to spend a little money if you want to have the people you really need,” said Chubb, who after visiting Madrid over the summer with his Dominican wife, served as a tour guide for his colleagues Tuesday and was seen in the city’s more popular downtown neighborhoods.
As expected, the spectacle will be as important as the match itself, and here’s why Dolphins and Leaders They are accompanied by their entertainment squad, the iconic ‘fans’, 56 in number, 28 on each side, who, in addition to participating in various events during the week, will perform at the Santiago Bernabéu. There will also be Florida’s mascot, TD the Dolphin, who, like most of his U.S. counterparts, earns a big salary from a European standpoint. Although his salary is not public, his mascots are NFL They usually receive wages of more than 50 thousand euros per year.
Hotels hosting both groups also saw a strong turnaround. For example, NH Eurobuilding Hotel Castellana, where Leaders (The dolphins do this at the palace), and it has a powerful security apparatus, with dozens of special agents monitoring the areas through which American guests travel 24 hours a day. Even the building’s meeting rooms, typically used by the city’s executives and business people, have been colonized. In each of them those colors Washington Each part of the team has its own space to plan the smallest details before the starting whistle blows on Sunday. Some numbers are scary but they are very common in the United States. This is the NFL’s great Yankee landing in Madrid.