River began working this Saturday and thus launched its 2024. The team led by Martín Demichelis resumed practices at the RiverCamp in Ezeiza, where the players will undergo medical studies and physical tests in the morning and will train in the afternoon. And after dinner, early Sunday morning, he left for Orlando on a direct flight. Once they arrived in the United States, they headed to Tampa, a city in Florida where they will carry out the preseason.
There, they stayed in the IMG Academy, a property with first-class facilities. It is just meters from the Sarasota Bay lagoon and has 16 soccer fields with natural grass, modern locker rooms, offices, a luxurious hotel called Legacy and a state-of-the-art two-story gym.
In turn, the academy has a great reputation in the area of neuroscience thanks to its mental performance and vision training sessions, screens for cognitive perception, awareness and reaction tests and tools for the practice of sports vision.
These are essential aspects that River has been working on for several years with Sandra Rossi, first, and now with Mariela Arangio on the squad since Rossi was left in charge of the neuroscience department at the club.
On the other hand, during the preparation work and as happened in the last preseason, El Millonario will also play a series of friendly matches. So far the only one that is confirmed is the one that will play on Wednesday, January 17 against Rayados de Monterrey. And there would be another one with America from Mexico. Both will be in Dallas.
The return will be between the 21st and 22nd of this month and upon returning the possibility of another match against Gimnasia y Tiro de Salta, at the Pedro Martearena stadium, was evaluated, but it still does not have a date. They would be very fair with the start of the League Cup, in which River will debut against Argentinos on the last weekend of January.
In addition to the professional squad, which already includes Claudio Echeverri, the boy who turned 18 last Tuesday and who was transferred to Manchester City for 29 million euros gross (River will have 24 million net left), Demichelis led several youth players to the preseason.
Among them are goalkeepers Lucas Lavagnino and Santiago Beltrán (both 2004 category), who were already working with the Primera; defender Daniel Zabala (2003), midfielders Tobías Leiva (2004) and Franco Mastantuono (2007); and forwards Ian Subiabre (2007) and Agustín Roberto (2006). The latter will sign the renewal of his contract.
Meanwhile, Pablo Solari and Sebastián Boselli did not go because they will join the Argentine and Uruguayan teams, respectively, to compete in the Pre-Olympic tournament.