---Morning Training at Estádio de Tondela, Viseu - after yesterday's, )(Sunday) day off
Physical trainer Darlan Schneider lead the training. Divided in 2 groups: defenders and forwards on one side; "laterais" wingers and midfielders on the other. Then, Schneider then led a 25 minute session of intense running, with priority on speed.
The goalkeepers worked with Fernando Brassard. All 22 players trains with soccer boots ("chuteiras") except 1- Valencia defender Miguel. Miguel ran around the soccer pitch in tennis shoes. He's still recovering.
Video: See 1 minute video of players doing aerobic training: http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?headline=98&visual=25&article=347859&tema=30 . I wish they had the code to embed it on a blog.
----4pm- Habitual Pre-training press conference with 2 players
The 2 rivals for the starting position! Benfica Goalkeeper Quim and Real Betis goalkeeper Ricardo sitting right next to each other.
See a picture of it:
Image Source: euro2008.sapo.pt/multimedia/fotos/conferencias_imprensa
For Quim's press-conference see this post.
To see Ricardo's statements, and how he insisted he's in his best possible shape today see this post.
---5pm- Afternoon training at Estádio de Tondela
Open to the public.
Source: www.Record.pt/noticia.asp?id=788212&idCanal=1252