Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has in mind what comes following the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where regarding 14 players from the team can leave for regarding a month, from November to December, during the World Cup, to participate with their national teams.
Ancelotti is laying out his plan for the time being for what will happen following returning from the World Cup, as he will have to plan who he will bet on when club football returns.
Real Madrid will play 10 matches before the next international stop for the World Cup, and the Spanish champions are preparing to face Getafe this evening, Saturday, in the eighth week of La Liga, at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez stadium.
What did Ancelotti say regarding his preparations 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 regard, he says that he is fine even if he is tired, sometimes not being honest regarding 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 in training, only two players told me they needed to rest, one of them was Pepe in the Champions League final and the other time Seedorf was in a league match.”
10 days off
And the report of the Spanish “Bernabeu Digital” website revealed that Ancelotti will give 10 days of rest to players who return following participating with their national teams 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 the time.
It is worth noting that the World Cup is scheduled to end on December 18, while the first match of the white team will be on December 31 once morest Valladolid.