„We are concentrating on our own team in the following weeks.”

MKB-MVM Veszprém’s trainer staff and the players, who have already arrived in Veszprém, started working today. In the first part of the day, players took part in a physical test in Dr Tibor Sydó’s consultant room. Christian Zeitz was the first at 8:30 am, he was followed by Renato Sulic. It is gratifying that at 11 am Iman Jamaly, who recovered from his injury, also stood on the treadmill and he naturally participated in the same endurance test like the others. In early afternoon Carlos Ruesga and Ottó Kancel did the test. From 17:30 pm they had a practice with Carlos Ortega head coach and Xavi Sabaté.

 

 

We made a short interview with coach Ortega before the preparing period of January.

 

I spent these three weeks in Spain with my family. We were in Malaga in the first week, where we had nice weather and it was good to meet again with relatives and friends. We spent the last two weeks in Santander, where we had also family around. We had fine meals and recalled a lot of nice memories.

 

 

Yes, of course. Since Cordoba is close to Santander, I saw the Hungarian-Spanish match live. I think the Hungarian team is practicing everything; the coach is looking for the best solutions and the proper system for the team. Clearly, they need more time. In my opinion, they should not attribute too much importance to the upshots at the weekend. The European qualifying competitions will be important; until that, everyone has to perform well and pick up Talant Dujsebajev’s ideas. Spain undoubtedly performed better, which is obvious because they are preparing for the World Championship. Although, I saw some players who were not in a good form and there were some who struggled with injuries. We will see the team’s condition in the World Championship.

 

Five of our players participated in the physical test and the doctor has already indicated that they got back from the break in good condition. I am going to train them until Friday, when the Hungarian national players, Momir Ilic and Gasper Marguc will join us. (Marguc did not get into the Slovenian World Championship squad after all.) These weeks give us great opportunity to fulfill such an achievement for which we do not have time because of the nonstop games during the season. There will be many endurance training without using the ball in order to strengthen the players’ shoulder, for instance. We can concentrate on our own team in the following weeks not on the upcoming matches.

 

 

 

Photos: Zsolt Melczer