New Year & Holiday Fun

Hope everyone had a lovely New Year’s Eve and have been enjoying the day today. As promised, a bumper crop of what various ‘ballers have been doing on their holidays. There have been engagements, baby announcements, singing in the mirror while dressed in a towel (Cristiano), blue gradient shoes (Sergio), celebrating on a camel (Mateo & Lukita) and a rather ungracious joke about a rival (Toni Kroos, being a bit rude, IMHO).  Let’s dig in! (It’s long so be prepared!)

The FInal Final Pre-Sevilla Session & Happy Papi’s Day

Okay, the mothership was full of shit yesterday. Today was the final training session. Sigh.

Sunday Recovery Session & Love Is All Around

The team had a recovery session today. The starters stayed indoors with the exception of Toni came out for a bit of a run.

More New Year’s Eve Pix

Por un año con estrella ! Feliz 2016 a todos . #nohabíauvasmásgrandesenelsúper #lashemostomadoconelhorarioespañol

A photo posted by Sara Carbonero (@saracarbonero) on Dec 31, 2015 at 3:40pm PST

The NYE pictures are starting to roll in. None from Sergio…yet. But here are some fun ones. Jese saw Karim’s WTF-ness and raised the bar even higher.

Mazel Tov: Keylor & Andrea’s Wedding

Keylor Navas and Andrea Salas decided that even though they had previously wed in a civil ceremony, they wanted a big church wedding. Keylor’s career commitments from doing it sooner, but they finally took the plunge on June 20 in Santa Ana, Costa Rica.

All Eyes On Odegaard & More

Wonder kid/Muppet Baby Martin Odegaard had his first training with the team today. (Video) Cristiano worked out indoors. Pepe and Lukita continue with their recovery.

Training, Trouble & LFP Awards

Don’t know about you, but I’m still on a high from the Clasico win on Saturday. Watishista hopechaser is hard at work on the recap even as we speak.

Celebrating The First Trophy Of The Season

Watishista mygypsyspirit is working on a recap of yesterday’s UEFA Super Cup, so I have the honor of pic spamming the hell out of the celebrations.

Keylor’s Big Day

A plaid shirt wearing goalkeeper? He’ll fit in just fine.

Keylor was put through his presentation day paces: medical, signing, on pitch antics, posin’ with the ‘Peez, etc.