Training Recap - July 1
Written by revseye on July 1, 2009 – 2:22 pm -After a late-night return to the stadium last night, the Revs were back on the field this morning, but the goalkeepers were the only ones running through drills. The rest of the team - which included everyone who played last night to some degree, as well as Kevin Alston, Mauricio Castro, Steve Ralsto, Wells Thompson and Edgaras Jankauskas - were out going through a brief jog and long stretch.
After the coaches ran them through the paces, last night’s non-participants worked off to the side with assistant athletic trainer Phil Madore on some additional conditioning and sprints.
To follow up on last night’s additional injuries, Kheli Dube had a heavily-taped ankle, but still went through the paces with the rest of the team. Michael Videira also went through the jog and stretch but got extra work and stretching done on his thigh. Chris Albright also popped out at the end to see what was going on with the guys. Jeff Larentowicz and Pat Phelan were also trying to show Emmanuel Osei a proper golf swing, before Osei admitted he was more of a basketball guy.
It’s a good thing the session was a light one as a loud and cantankerous thunderstorm planted itself over the stadium as the players lingered on the field for a few games of “Butts Up,” with Madore finally chasing everyone off when lightning broke through.
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July 1st, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Very happy to read that Jankauskas is in town.
July 1st, 2009 at 5:20 pm
so who’s off of the roster, now that with Jankausas we are one over the limit?
July 1st, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Any comment from the team on last night’s embarassing display? Sending in three subs to start the half was a recipe for disaster and Coach Nicol had to know that.
If Donovan and Clark can play all of these games around the world against top competition and in places like Costa Rica, Jeff L should be able to handle 90 in New Britain?
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Probably best to refer you to yesterday’s In the Net broadcast where both Brad Feldman and Brian Bilello discuss the topic.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I did listen, but Brad’s comments are not particularly surprising. “it’s the USOC’s fault….the players aren’t robots”. All I know is that more than 3k people went to New Britain for a glorified scrimmage where the coach put in three subs at half and I also know that Donovan and Clark put in a heck of a lot more over the last few weeks(physically and emotionally) Donovan had 90 minutes of top level soccer in 5 games over 14 days halfway around the world. Add in trips to Costa Rica, etc… and that is a much tougher schedule than three games in Gillette and one in New Britain.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Arranging time and substitutions for players against first string international powers like Brazil and Spain in a FIFA tournament is not the same as getting an MLS team on the field in the third round of the USOC, all due respect to the US tournament. Its naive of Buzz to compare the two. Does anyone really think that Nicol would coach the MLS Cup Final just as he did the USOC third round match? But that’s Buzz’s argument, each game is to be coached full out. Surely Nicol can’t run this team, this year, like that and have any prayer of adavancing in Oct. Sorry you made the trip only to see them lose to a USL-2 opponent (look how may MLS teams lost this USOC round though!) I’d be disappointed too, but the MLS season is hanging by a thread here due to the catastrophic run of injuries. Nicol must focus on MLS. (BTW, what is really going on with Badilla and Castro??? Compound fractures heal faster than their “strains” - -OK an exaggeration but WTF?)