With just over 1,400 tickets available for the match, it’s safe to say there will be a full house, which isn’t bad for a pre-season warm-up match between Saprissa and the United States.
The Purple Team will face San Antonio next Saturday in the USL Championship, which is the second division league in the United States. The match will be held at Toyota Field in San Antonio, Texas, which has a capacity of 8,000 spectators.
To see the beast on American soil, tickets range from $15 (7,785 cents), the cheapest, to $65 (33,735 cents), the most expensive, depending on the location. Other ticket prices are $17, $25, $30, $34, $40, and $55.
DIARIO EXTRA went to the official website where tickets can be purchased and was able to confirm that 1,453 tickets remained for sale at the time of publication.
This commitment represents the final stage of the pre-season for the four-time national champion, before facing the Recopa and Apertura 2024. Tebasinos lost the Super Cup the previous weekend.
“We need to raise the players’ performance before the start of the tournament. It is important to work on those specific aspects that the player needs, whether in the gym or in the technical-tactical field,” commented Jose Sanchez, the team’s physical trainer.
The specialist explained that to avoid overloading the muscles, they take the players little by little in the physical part. “We know that we are coming from a three-week break, after the tournament, so the loads must be introduced gradually. This four-week space allows us to increase them not so strongly so that the player is in better shape when the tournament starts.
Success Formula
Sanchez stressed that they must maintain the working formula that the institution has applied in previous seasons, since the formula has been successful. However, he acknowledged that there is room for improvement. He said: “The methodology in these two years has achieved good results, but we know that there are things that need to be improved.”
The physical trainer added: “The idea is to raise the level of tournament after tournament to demand ourselves physically and for the player to understand that high competition really requires that. We have an obligation and a responsibility to demand that the player be on the field so that he is exposed to these changes little by little.”
Saprissa will visit San Antonio this weekend at 7pm, on Wednesday they will play against the league in the Cup Winners’ Cup, and on Sunday, July 21, they will play for the first time against Sporting in the first round of the national championship.
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