Everton midfielder, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Leon-Osman-c22041 turned his focus towards the Toffees forthcoming pre-season match against Morecambe on Saturday, after the squad completed their training session in Austria this weekend.
The Merseyside club set up a five day training camp at the Alp as a part of their pre-season drill exercise. The team returned to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 ahead of their friendly game against the League Two outfit on the weekend, scheduled to be played at the Globe Arena.
Everton will kick off their 2012/13 campaign against Manchester United in a home game on the 20th of August. Before that, they will play a handful of friendly matches against Morecambe, Dundee United, Motherwell, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Indonesia-c2922 XI in
July. In August, they will feature in three more games against Blackpool, AEK Athens and Malaga.
The midfielder felt that even though their training sessions in Austria were a good preparatory exercise, it was important that the Toffees got a taste of competitive football before the new season kicks off.
Osman is reported to have said, “The running is important but to play the games and have matches, competitive ones, is what we all want and what we're all striving to get to.”
At the age of 31, the English International is one of the aged players in the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Everton-c39043 squad.
During his lengthy stay at Goodison Park, which now stretches over a period of almost ten years, he has made 303 appearances and scored 42 goals.
With the player now starting to suffer from the effects of old age, he admitted that he found it difficult to keep up during the drills unlike in the past. Nevertheless, he mentioned that he enjoyed playing football after completing all the running and other
warm up exercises.
According to reports, all the players spent three training sessions daily during their stay at http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Austria-c2844 and had to wake up early in the morning.
The midfielder added, “It's been very tough to get up and before your body has really got used to being awake you're already doing a run or a bike. So it can be difficult, but its part of getting fit both physically and mentally.”
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