Ivan Rakitic gets emotional over resumption of La Liga’s group training

Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic is elated over the resumption of group training, says “He is looking forward to feeling like Footballer again”. To restart professional football in Spain La Liga clubs on Monday, he returned to group training with a maximum of 10 players.

Rakitic quoted on the club’s official website “When we were training alone due to lockdown it is way different from the training that we did today with 10 players that made me feel like a footballer again”.

La Liga was suspended during March onwards due to ongoing pandemic but individual training started from May 4 onwards as the government began to de-escalate its lockdown measures.

The midfielder added, “There were certain things which we were looking to find as a team I hope that we have found the lost rhythm and now it’s a case of going forwards”.

Rakitic was pleased to see the return of Bundesliga, which started from May 16th, but it is sad to see players playing on the field without fans.

Where Rakitic talked about Bundesliga in detail by adding “We watched a few games of Bundesliga. I have spoken to my ex-teammate in Germany to Neuer and Perisic of Bayern. They have a good head start”.

He also concluded by stating that “It’s great to see football is back and most players are feeling like a footballer again which is the best thing at the moment but playing on grounds where there are no fans is the saddest part that you witness as a player”.