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Calero: "We're using these few weeks for tuning up and gaining fitness"
The defender talks from the preseason training camp
Fernando Calero is beginning his fifth season at RCD Espanyol in 2023/24. The defender is highly focused on achieving promotion with the team and is using the summer months to reach peak fitness.
“We have had two quite intense weeks in Barcelona and now we start our training camp, which is also an important moment of the season. In this time you are very focused on eating, resting, training hard and resting again. I think it comes in handy for group bonding," Calero explained from Marbella.
“We have clear concepts, but we always have to clarify and improve them. It's good to continue with the same coach who ended last season and continue with the evolution under him," said the centre back.
"We're using these few weeks for for tuning up and gaining fitness, although we like games as a means to test ourselves and continue to express ideas on the pitch."
Calero, who has already experienced promotion before with RCD Espanyol, is drawing on that campaign for inspiration.
"We need to look at the year that we managed to get promotion. We started well and that gave us the momentum to be at the top. There will be good and bad moments, but we have to start strong so that our rivals take us into consideration."