The winter break is over for VfL Wolfsburg Women, who held their first training session of the year at Elsterweg on Wednesday morning. In the afternoon, the coaching team, backroom staff and 31 players headed off to Almancil in Portugal, where they will follow an intensive 10-day training programme.
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After undergoing performance tests on Sunday, the Green-and-Whites trained together for the first time on Wednesday in a 90-minute session. Head coach Tommy Stroot had the majority of his squad available to him, although Sarai Linder was among the absentees due to the ankle injury she sustained shortly before the winter break. “We won’t rush her as we get her back to fitness,” said Stroot, who will adopt a similar approach with Kristin Demann and Camilla Küver.
Meanwhile, Rebecka Blomqvist has stayed in Wolfsburg for the time being. “She’s ill at the moment so that’s why she hasn’t come with us,” said the coach. “But she’ll join up with us in the next few days.”
Everyone else on the playing staff is fit and healthy, including 17-year-old attacker Maja Zielinska from the U20s, who has joined the first team on their camp in Portugal. “She was with us a lot during our summer preparations too,” said Stroot.
