The national entourage left Chile in a divided way. While a group of players left the country earlier this week for business reasons, the forwards took off on Thursday after a farewell activity at the same airport.
At the moment, the Cóndores are scattered across the map. While a group of six players is already installed in the north of France, the forwards are crossing the Atlantic to land in Paris and the backs are awaiting a trip that will take them this Friday from Santiago to the French capital. They were days of farewells, commercial activities and great enthusiasm.
The delegation will only meet this Saturday, when all the groups arrive in Perros-Guirec, a small town in the Brittany region, which will be the operational center of the Condors during the month when they will face the best teams in the world. They will live together in a 45-room hotel spread over three buildings, nestled on the Côte de Granit Rose, off the English Channel.
City specially chosen to federate a concentration which will include four trips in 26 days. Located in the northwest of the country, allows the team to travel without problems to Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes and Lille where they will play the Group D matches.
The training center will be a nine-minute drive from the hotel where they will be staying. This is the Yves Le Jannou Stadium, where Us Perros Louannec usually plays. , local team of the eighth division of French football. The facilities have a gym, main court, grandstands and exclusive areas for the team.
Farewell from Chile
The first group of selected left Santiago on Tuesday. It is Martín Sigren, Matías Dittus, Rodrigo Fernández, Iñaki Ayarza, Javier Eismann and Marcelo Torrealba , who traveled ahead to record a commercial video for Banco de Chile from Normandy. They will stay there until Saturday when they go out to meet their teammates in the Cóndores bunker.
The rest of the rugby players were divided into two groups. The one who will close the farewell this Friday and another who has experienced one of the most emotional moments of this week. These are the attackers who boarded this Thursday at the Arturo Merino Benítez airport, accompanied by their families and a Telethon ambassador. It was a massive activity that changed the routine of the international air terminal.
Clemente Saavedra, national team, showed his emotion for the moment he lived before flying away to the most important experience of his career. “Our motivation is represented here, for everything we have worked for, and above all to represent Chile and leave it at the top. Much of our motivation comes from our families and also from the path we have traveled because it has been difficult for us to get where we are. “, underlined the Selknam player.
“We leave with a mission which is to leave our flag well planted in France, that Chile appears on the radars of the world and that it is not a coincidence that we qualified for the World Cup for the first time. We are very proud of our families, of what we represent and we go there with all the desire and encouragement to give 100%,” added Santiago Videla.
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