The cleats come out of the closet. A little over a month after celebrating the rise in Ligue 2, it’s time to get back to work. The meeting is set for 8:45 a.m. this Monday for the players and the staff with a breakfast at Les Gandonnières, the training center.
The footballers will receive their kit then, around 10:30 a.m., the physical trainer will take things in hand with the players leaving on the training ground for the traditional jogging. In the middle of the team there will be two new faces, two recruits presented a few minutes earlier. A third new player will be announced this Tuesday, June 21. The club is looking for a central defender (left-handed if possible), a right-back and a left-back. As well as an attacker. A total of seven or eight players.
With or without Gonçalves and Goncalves
Don’t count on seeing Anthony Gonçalves, he won’t be there. But we should see the former captain very quickly with a Tango jersey. The other question concerns Bryan Goncalves. The defender, still under contract with Laval, could seduce a Ligue 1 club. Will he participate in the recovery with Laval? it’s unlikely.
A week of training for the Mayenne footballers then the team will go on a preparation course at the Château du Bois Guy near Fougères, from Sunday June 26 to Saturday July 2.
The physical preparation has already started
During this off-season, the players of the Mayenne club continued to meet physically with an individual program. Two and a half hours of physical activity per day, 5 days out of 7, for example for defender Kévin Perrot: “a program was sent to us by the physical trainer and we had to get back on the road in early June to prepare for this recovery. The first week, it was a resumption of jogging of 2 times 15 minutes. And as the weeks go by, it increases crescendo to go up to 40 minutes of running. There is also muscle strengthening to be done in the gym at the same time. We are asked to keep a sporting activity excluding football during our weeks of vacation.“