After a month of holidays, PSG players are back to training at Clairefontaine this afternoon for the first steps of the pre-season.
Today they will meet with a new figure recruited this summer: Martin Buchheit, the news member of the staff in charge of Performance.
Just like the last two seasons, the Parisians will travel to Stegersbach in Austria on July 3rd. The stage will last for 9 days. There they will play two friendly matches against TSV Hartberg (Second Division [Austria]) on July 8. and against Videoton FC (First Division [Hungary]) on July 12.
Then the parisians will travel to Leipzig in germany on July 18. There they will have a third friendy before traveling to China a week later.
During that asian tourney, they will have a friendy against Kitchee (First Division [HongKong]) before battling against Guingamp in Pékin for the Trophée des Champions (match between the winner of the French League against the winner of the French Cup).
It has to be noted that PSG players will train this afternoon in Clairefontaine because the Ooredoo sport center (PSG traning Ground) is undergoing renovation work.
The 11 players that participate to the WC will not be present. For those that could reach the finals, their return is planned around July 14 at best.
Also, Laurent Blanc announced Zlatan Ibrahimovic will also join later. It's not certain that the swedish striker will join the stage in Austria.
Marquinhos will be back this thursday on july 3, and will travel to Austria with his teammates and the staff.
This afternoon, those players will be present : Douchez, Camara, Jallet, Lucas, Pastore and Van der Wiel. Chantôme should be there too as well as Maignan, Ongenda, Romuald Lacazette et some young players from the youth PSG center.
Tomorrow and wednesday, they will train 2 times per day before traveling to Austria on Thursday.
More to come with the Players return Calendar, and PSG events dates. Need to translate them all first.