Here we go again: one day after the European Championship final, in which Spain, featuring the Werkself's Alejandro Grimaldo take on England, the training pitch at the BayArena will once again be busy, when captain Lukas Hradecky and the majority of his teammates kick off their pre-season preparations for the Bundesliga and DFB Pokal - both as defending champions - as well as for the UEFA Champions League.
Euro 2024 finalist Grimaldo and Exequiel Palacios, who is due to play in the Copa América final with Argentina, will miss the start of training, as will a number of European Championship and Copa América participants who are now on their well-earned holidays after taking part in tournaments straight after the end of last season.
The first open sessions at a glance (all sessions at 11:00 CEST)*:
Monday, 15 July
Tuesday, 16 July
Wednesday, 17 July
Thursday, 18 July
Friday, 19 July
*Subject to change at short notice
Two keepers, lots of questions: Werkself captain Lukas Hradecky and U19 goalkeeper Jesper Schlich visited the BarmeniaGothaer children’s press conference in partnership with the Bayer 04 Lions Club on Wednesday afternoon. The duo faced interesting and at times unusual questions from around 50 inquisitive young journalists in the press conference room at the BayArena.
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A large number of sporting directors and officials from big clubs across Europe came to the BayArena on Tuesday for the second seminar in the UEFA Sporting Director Programme (SDP) in cooperation with the ECA.
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Full-back Janou Levels will leave Bayer 04 Leverkusen at the end of the season. The 24-year-old has activated her release clause and she will join Bundesliga rivals VfL Wolfsburg. She has signed a three-year contract.
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After returning from Hamburg and a day off on Easter Monday, the Werkself players were back on the training ground at the BayArena on Tuesday morning. Following the session, Amine Adli was very positive in a media interview about the remaining four matches including the forthcoming home game against FC Augsburg (Saturday, 26 April, 15:30 CEST): "We will give our all to end the season as well as we can!"
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