Viera wowed by new campus

by **Topdawg** Fri Oct 17, 2014 9:38 am

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/vieira-wowed-incredible-man-city-7949751

Patrick Vieira has road-tested Manchester City’s spanking new training ground and declared “It’s a dream!”
The Blues’ elite development squad manager has taken his young charges to the Etihad Campus this week, to try out the new facilities, believed to have cost around £100million.
And he told his youngsters that the minute attention to detail at the Etihad Campus means one thing: “No more excuses!”
Vieira was last night one of nine footballers inducted into the National Football Museum’s Hall of Fame, as recognition of his silver-laden career in England and Italy.
But he said he has never seen anything that comes close to the new City facility: “It is a dream come true for a player, fantastic,” he told MEN Sport. “Everything is there for a player to challenge themselves.
“When you are a football player you need to want to spend time in training, so a good training ground needs everything you need to keep you there.
“This facility has everything. Maybe at other places there are certain things you don’t have, but here you have everything.
“The quality of the pitches is unbelievable, and from the moment you come in, even if it early in the morning, there are people there to look after you until five or six pm.
“So you come in and do your preactivation, go to training, then lunch, then maybe a treatment. If you need a sleep, there is a place to sleep.
“Everything tells the players that they can stay from early morning to evening and have everything they need to look after themselves. It means no more excuses!”