First workouts in Germany

The team has trained for the first time on German soil. The players that travelled to Baden-Württemberg on Wednesday were out for the first of two Thursday sessions bright and early under the local sunshine at the SV Aasen training facility.

There was both fitness and skills work to be done in preparation for Saturday’s friendly with Stuttgart (6.00pm CEST). The players then returned to the field in the early evening for a slightly less intense session.

With Èric Garcia, Pedri and Oscar Mingueza away at the Olympics and some of the South Americans still away, the 25 players taking part in the trip to central Europe are: Dest, Piqué, R. Araujo, Sergio, Griezmann, Pjanić, Braithwaite, Riqui Puig, Neto, Lenglet, Jordi Alba, S. Roberto, F. De Jong, Umtiti, Memphis, Iñaki Peña, Arnau Tenas, Collado, Demir, Gavi, Nico, Comas, Balde, R. Manaj and Mortimer.