On the 24th of Melanie Lane, the exact address of the Red Bull NY training center, the field that FIFA assigned to Spain to train in the days leading up to the final in New Jersey, it already looked bad at 10:00 in the morning, an hour before the start. Huge clouds dyed everything gray and, just as the players were about to come out, with hundreds of journalists already set up on the sidelines, the alarm: “Everyone inside!”, shouted the FIFA staff. The storm was about to start.
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Initially, the training was suspended for half an hour. Then, the protocol announced work for when half an hour had passed after the last thunder. Finally, given the multiplication of that, the thunders, increasingly strong in New Jersey and New York, Luis de la Fuente was left without training.
Also Lionel Scaloni. Argentina also had to return to the hotel for the same reason. Already yesterday, the coach complained: “Today we had to shorten the training because we had to come here, to this event [a FIFA event], and on Thursday we arrived very late. It is a problem but we accept it. Tomorrow [Saturday] is the only day we can have a normal training“. Well, not even that.
It is true that, at this stage of the tournament, training is of little use because what really matters is the rest of the players, but it is still curious that neither of the two teams have been able to train before the World Cup final.
Theoretically the weather improves tomorrow and there is no danger for the match.
