Hajduk football team led by coach Zeljko Kopic and his assistants successfully concluded the first training session at this season's winter camp in Turkish Belek, where they arrived last night at about 21 :00 local time.
They worked intensely for over 120 minutes on an excellent pitch in a splendid sports complex within Kempinski Hotel. The conditions in Belek are really ideal and Hajduk took the first training session on a sunny day, at a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius. Coach confirmed his satisfaction with the conditions for training and the accommodation. There is absolutely nothing missing and can fully concentrate on football. Apart from Hajduk, the eight-placed Russian team Arsenal Tula is staying in the same hotel.
After a long yesterday's trip from Zagreb through Istanbul to Antalya, the players had awakened this morning at 8:30 local time, and ninety minutes later they started their first training of the central part of mid-season preparation.
The morning training was based solely on fitness. Exercises were supervised and coordinated by Luigi Febbrari along with other coaches. First, they had strength training, and then raising aerobic capacity to make the team physically fully prepared for the remaining part of the season. The new training session is planned in the afternoon, and technical-tactical elements will be in focus. The team will train every day until January 31 inside the hotel complex, only some tens of meters from their rooms. Marko Futacs and Gustavo Carbonieri are training separately, they are still in the recovery process, and attacker Hugo Almeida missed today's morning training due to minor health issue.
