The players will see each other more than their families: Club Brugge starts a crazy nine-day | Jupiler Pro League play-offs

They will see their teammates and trainers more than their wife and child(ren). Club Brugge faces a hellish week, which will take them through Limburg, Tuscany and Antwerp. A kind of great isolation or internship week, in which three vital competitions are scheduled. To illustrate: of the 216 hours between Saturday afternoon and next Sunday evening after Antwerp Club, the delegation will spend approximately 115 hours – or more than half of the time – together.

The Club expedition starts on Saturday afternoon with lunch at the Basecamp in Westkapelle. When Blue-Black plays on Sunday at 1:30 PM, the people of Bruges traditionally go into isolation. The players will spend the night in Genk on Saturday and the players will not return home until Sunday evening. Monday and Tuesday are the only normal days for the foreseeable future. Wednesday morning it goes to Firenze, Friday afternoon the blue-black returns to the familiar Basecamp, where another training session is scheduled. On Saturday it goes to Antwerp again, the day before the away match at the Bosuil.

Club has now completed 56 matches – no one does better in Europe. A real test awaits them now with three new away matches against top teams. A week on the road offers them the opportunity to bond even closer together – which has been the case successfully in recent weeks. The downside is that they do not have much time for family or private matters.