Alexia is part of the first team training in New Zealand

Four days after making their debut at the 2023 Women’s World Cup, Spain held its first training session this Monday in Palmerston North, New Zealand, under the watchful eye of fans.This will be their base camp throughout the championship.

The 23 players who will play in the 2023 World Cup, which will be held simultaneously in New Zealand and Australia, arrived in Palmerston North, about 150 kilometers from the capital Wellington, last Saturday after spending a week in Auckland acclimatising to the weather and climate. Circumstances.

After a day of rest on Sunday, in that leadership George Vilda returned to training today, this time at the Massey Sports Institute facilitiesLocated at Massey University, it will serve as the Spanish team’s base of operations throughout the tournament.

In this open training session, the midfielder Alexia Butellas, one of the core members of the team, has been training with the whole team for some timeAfter doing separate exercises during the first week of habituation due to discomfort.

The reigning Ballon d’Or did not take part in last Friday’s friendly training session against Vietnam.Today’s training seems to have, at least partially, allayed trainers’ concerns about his recovery ahead of Spain’s debut on July 21.

For more than an hour, he went through thorough passing drills, speed plays, game simulations and eventually penalty shootouts.

About 200 fans attended the trainingFacilities came to show their support for La Roja, including many children.

From the edges of the pitch, fans, many of them wearing their club shirts like Barca or Real Madrid, waved Spanish flags, banners with motivational messages and occasionally interacted with the team between plays.

After completing the training, the players offered an autograph session to the participants who stood their ground regardless of the cold and harsh winds that hit the city this time of the year.

Spain, in Group C, will make their World Cup debut against Costa Rica at the Regional Stadium in Wellington on Friday. In their second match, they travel to Auckland, New Zealand’s most populous city, where they face Zambia on July 26.

The group stage will conclude again on July 31 against Japan at Wellington Stadium.