For today's friendly, I wanted to have a separate selection of pictures with a focus away from the play on the pitch. A big part of the gameday experience is the crowd at the stadium, the players sharing moments as friends and seeing them let their guard down and smile after the battle on the pitch has been completed.
I went into the game today with an intent to spend a little time going through the stands (I will be making screen backgrounds in the next few days) and focusing on the team in the time between entering the stadium and the match starting. After the game many of the players stayed on the field (after going around the stadium) and stretched, chatted and enjoyed the time as teammates before they went on their separate ways to their club teams.
Cleats were tossed into the crowd, conversations with the people in the stands from a distance and behaviour that is so rarely seen by the athletes that play before 20k+ people.Here are a few, I will be adding more images tomorrow, with pictures from a training session earlier in the week, as well as actual gameplay.
Thanks to everyone that was at the stadium, you should be proud of the energy level you helped to create in the stadium and also on the pitch.
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