Relaxation between pyramids

The Atletico Madrid for a few hours changed his fiefdom in the Madrid area Pyramids, the Vicente Calderon, the real Pyramids of Giza, on a visit before the game that will play tomorrow against the Egyptian club Zamalek .

Dressed in red shirts with the arms of Atletico, players and coaches landed this morning at the historic monuments before face to face with the whole Zamalek, which this year celebrates its centenary.

In the shadow of the pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus, the players forgot for a while last Sunday's defeat against Getafe and turned to take pictures with monuments, apart from visiting other locations like the Egyptian Museum, which houses the largest collection of Pharaonic era parts of the world.

"This is beautiful and the pyramids are a must in Egypt," said the goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo, who, although he visited Egypt for the first time in 2009, during the celebration of Sub'20 World, said the country of the Nile continues to amaze.

Police protection surrounding the team at the beginning scared the persistent sellers of papyrus and figurines, but soon ignored the police and began offering trinkets to the players, who could not escape the harassment faced by all the tourists at the Pyramids . Fervent fans of the Spanish league, the Egyptians who visited the site today were quick to take their phones to take pictures with the players and try to overcome the language barrier to start a conversation with them.

"They do not understand much, really," he said with a laugh defender Alvaro Dominguez, who added that "we note that around here know enough to Atletico Madrid," although most Egyptians divided their sympathies between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Between photography and photography, Dominguez took the opportunity to speak next Thursday's game against Zamalek, the Egypt's flagship team with his arch-rivals Al Ahli club, which from now former coach train rojiblanco, Quique Sanchez Flores .

"It will be a tough game because they are here and want to please their audience in its centenary, but we have the obligation to win wherever we are," said Dominguez.

To Cairo have moved 16 first team players of Atletico Madrid and young Javier Manquillo , novelty in the call, along with several leaders among them are the manager of the club, Clemente Villaverde, and sporting director Jose Luis Perez Caminero, as well as Adelard Rodriguez, director of the Sports City and Luis Pereira, former Atletico player and manager B.

They stayed out of the international call Thibaut Courtois (Belgium), Jorge Resurrection 'Koke' (Spain sub'21), Arda Turan (Turkey), Diego Godin (Uruguay), Radamel Falcao and Perea (Colombia).

Thus, the squad traveling to Egypt is: Joel, Asenjo, Filipe Luis Pulido, Miranda Dominguez Manquillo, Mario Suarez, Tiago, Salvio, Reyes, Assuncao, Gabi, Juanfran, Diego, Adrian and Pizzi.