Laurent Blanc reveals Al-Ittihad's shortcomings last season
Frenchman Laurent Blanc, coach of Al-Ittihad Club, revealed the team's exciting problem during last season.
According to Saudi press sources, Laurent Blanc, Al-Ittihad’s coach, handed over to the team’s management the technical reports on the decline in the players’ physical condition in the second half of last season’s matches.< /p>
The sources confirmed that Blanc’s reports matched the opinion of the Spaniard Ramon Planes, the club’s sporting director, so the team’s camp focused from the beginning of the first stage on the physical aspects to a very large extent, to the point that The players were given only one day of rest, which was yesterday, since the start of the camp in Spain.
Al-Ittihad finished last season in fifth place in the Saudi Professional League standings.