Fiorentina director Joe Barona has cited one aspect of Tottenham’s training ground he wants to avoid when designing their state of the art facility.
La Viola recently revealed their plans to build a new training complex spanning around 25 hectares, which will make it one of the largest sports centres in Italy.
The complex, located in the Bagno a Ripoli region of the country, will be Fiorentina’s own for the first time in the club’s 95-year history, and will house its men’s, women’s and youth teams under one facility.
Fiorentina CEO Barone made it clear that all the club’s teams would train together at the new complex as an aspect of community, citing Tottenham’s method of separating the sides as something he wanted to make sure did not happen.
Barone told TuttoMercatoWeb: “The great difference between Tottenham and our sports centre is the beauty of the landscape.
“In addition to the fact that they have a building with various centres, while here everything is very widespread, with mini stadiums, the youth sector, the first-team and the women’s pavilion.
“At Tottenham, women do not train in the sports centre. The details of various centres, one from Real Madrid, are the stands in the ten fields. Which, instead we have avoided here as superfluous, concentrating the stands in a single structure.”
Reports circulated that Spurs’ women’s team had only been allowed to train at the club’s modern Hotspur Way training centre for just one day a week. The rest of the days were spent on the pitch at Barnet’s The Hive facility.
However, last December, Spurs Women head coach Rehanne Skinner revealed the side would be training full-time at the state of the art Enfield complex, claiming the decision was a ‘statement of intent’ from the club.
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The view of Fiorentina’s CEO is now a little bit outdated, given the Spurs women’s side now train at the Enfield complex. It was still a rather awkward way of doing things up until last December given it should have happened sooner, but Spurs have rectified that now which should be for the better for the women’s team overall.
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