Last year's tour of Asia brought Real Madrid a huge windfall, with projected revenue of over thirty million euros, making the entire European football world green with envy. But this summer, when Real Madrid drew up its training plan, it took Yang Yang and Zidane's advice and did not return to Asia, where the revenue would have been higher. Instead, it chose North America, which was much closer.
Real Madrid's training camp was based in Montreal, Canada. Its three warm-up matches were in Colombu, Canada, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States, and New Jersey. The opponents were Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, and Bayern Munich respectively, and all three matches were warm-ups in the North American International Champions Cup.
By initial estimates, Real Madrid's revenue this summer was expected to reach twenty million euros, a full ten million less than last year. However, the travel time was significantly shorter, sparing the team the exhaustion of long journeys.
Clearly, the club's management had taken Yang Yang and Zidane's protests from last season to heart.
Since the internationals who had participated in the Copa América and European Cup had all returned early, Real Madrid's training camp was fully staffed. Everyone trained with meticulous focus and dared not relax in the slightest.
As last year, Pintus's training intensity was extremely high, and the players' condition was greatly affected.
Especially Yang Yang.
Unlike previous years, Yang Yang's personal coach, Winston Bogarde, was permitted to travel with the team this year and was responsible for Yang Yang's training throughout. This had been specially approved by the club's management, and Winston Bogarde's task was to help Yang Yang lose weight.
For many professional players, gaining weight was a very painful process. What they did not know was that for a player like Yang Yang, who was already