Even the stars of Kane’s level cannot stand Conte’s assignments.
The summer off-season is in full swing, but most of the top European football championships, including the English Premier League, will start in the next month. All clubs in the Premier League have already returned from vacation and have begun preparations for the upcoming season.
Tottenham Hotspur have chosen South Korea as their training camp this summer. The metropolitan team, led by Antonio Conte, will face a difficult struggle. There are plenty of formidable opponents in the Premier League. To compete for the championship in England, the Italian coach is ready to go to extremes. Already at the first training camp, he almost sent half the team to the hospital with his preparation methods.
Exhausting marathon in Korean hell
Antonio Conte took over as manager of Tottenham Hotspur in November last year. The specialist has not yet held a full-fledged training camp with the team, because there is no winter break in England. The team from London ended the championship in fourth place, which means that the Spurs will have to play in four tournaments. In addition to the Champions League and the Premier League, the team expects the League Cup and the FA Cup.
South Korea was chosen as the location for the training camp. Here the team will prepare for the start of the Premier League and will hold a control meeting with the local top division team in the coming days.
Playing in so many tournaments at the same time is an energy-intensive exercise. This circumstance obliges the players to come to the beginning of the season well prepared. Perfectly aware of the importance of preparation and Antonio Conte, famous for his hard training, which, however, regularly gave results in different teams.
The Italian from the very first days did not give the players time to build up. He immediately began to drive the players to exhaustion in training. So, at the end of another open session at the Seoul stadium, Antonio forced the players to run a hard cross. The players, at the direction of the mentor, ran from gate to gate 42 times with a field length of 105 meters.
Shuttle run at maximum speed was hard for all Tottenham players. After the end of the task, the team almost in its entirety lay exhausted on the lawn. Only a few stood on their feet after this test. Even the club’s main goalscorer Harry Kane, who collapsed on the lawn without strength, could not stand such an intensity of training.
The situation was aggravated by the most difficult weather conditions. These days in the capital of South Korea there is a 30-degree heat and high humidity. Training in such weather turns into a real hell.
“Good training yesterday”
Many football players, after such a cruel test, hastened to share photos with emaciated faces with the audience on social networks. Perhaps only Christian Romero retained optimism. The Argentine defender posted a post in which he praised Conte’s work methods.
“It was a good workout yesterday. Thanks to all the fans for their support, we are always happy to be here,” the midfielder wrote on his social networks.
But the fans were seriously worried about the condition of the players after such extreme races. They actively supported the players in the comments.
Christian, you all worked so hard! We saw the practice. Please get well! Can’t wait for you to play on Wednesday,” wrote a Spurs fan cloud_thfc on Romero’s page.
– Welcome to Korea. It’s an honor for me to be able to watch the game. Please enjoy until the end of your stay in Korea! I hope you will have good memories, – brise.97 laughed slightly at the players.
– I wish the weather was better. Nevertheless, yesterday’s open training was very cool, a Korean fan with the nickname siri131 admired the endurance of the players.
“I’m glad to see you alive after an intense workout with Conte,” a user with the nickname spurs.reports supported Harry Kane.
“You should listen to managers more and try to run without giving up, because if you want to win, you need to work hard,” tsole_1290gt supported the exhausted players.
“It was the coolest training day I have ever seen. Thanks Harry! wrote Korean football fan hi__june0502 under Kane’s post.
“Even I felt bad when I watched it on the video,” user _slimer11 described his emotions from what he saw.
There is still almost a month of preparation ahead. If Conte continues to drive the players in the same rhythm, then they will literally destroy the opponents with their physical strength. The main thing is that the players remain alive by August 5, when the Premier League resumes.
