Semi-finalist of the Club World Cup and dryly eliminated by PSG (4-0), Real Madrid therefore closed its 2024-2025 season on July 9, later that most European teams. In order to offer its players as much rest as possible, the White House made the decision not to resume training until Monday, August 4, barely two weeks before the official start of the next fiscal year, on the occasion of Osasuna's reception for the first day of Liga.
Despite this very short period of preparation, the Merengues announced the holding of a friendly match against the Austrian club of WSG Tirol, tenth of the local championship last season. The meeting is scheduled for August 12 at 7 p.m. at Tivoli Stadion in Austria. The goal being to avoid a long trip and that it is more like a getaway than a real internship, the return to Spain will therefore be the same day. A direct consequence of this decision: there will be no Santiago Bernabéu trophy this summer, a friendly match of Gala organized each year to pay tribute to the former president of Real Madrid, at the head of the 1943 club until his death in 1978.
