Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has in mind the consequences of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where about 14 players of the team can leave for about a month, from November to December, during the World Cup, to participate with their national teams.
Ancelotti for now is outlining his plan for what will happen after his return from the World Cup, as he will have to plan on who to bet on when club football returns.
Real Madrid will play 10 games before the next international round of the World Cup and the Spanish champions are preparing to face Getafe tonight, Saturday, in the eighth week of La Liga, at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez stadium.
What did Ancelotti say about his preparation for the post-World Cup period?
Ancelotti said at the press conference for the Getafe match: “The evaluation of rest is important, the player is not honest in this sense, he says he is fine even if he is tired, sometimes not being honest about this costs injuries”.
He added: “I prefer them to be honest, if they are I want the players to tell me when they are tired and need to rest.”
And he added: “In my 30 years of training, only two players told me they needed to rest, one was Pepe in the Champions League final and the other Seedorf in a championship match.”
10 days of rest
And the report of the Spanish website “Bernabeu Digital” revealed that Ancelotti will grant 10 days of rest to players who return after participating with their national team in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and this means that they will miss a match with Real Madrid. and the Italian will have to trust the players available at that moment.
It should be noted that the conclusion of the World Cup is scheduled for 18 December, while the Bianconeri’s first match will be on 31 December against Valladolid.
