Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini has announced the names who’s been called up for the upcoming La Liga match against Racing Santander:

SQUAD LIST:
Goalkeepers: Casillas, Dudek
Defenders: Arbeloa, Albiol, Garay, Metzelder, Pepe, Marcelo
Midfielders: Gago, Diarra, Drenthe, Xabi Alonso, Van der Vaart, Granero, Kaka
Forwards: Raul, Benzema, Higuain

PRE-MATCH GATHERING:
Friday 20 November @ 20:45 at the Santiago Bernabeu.

NEXT TRAINING:
Sunday 22 November @ 10:30 at Real Madrid City.

Source: Real Madrid Official Site

Plus, a few cute photos of Ricky in the training session two days ago (thanks to inesdelsol at the ontd_football community!). For those of you who have the untagged version, I’d be reeeeally appreciate it if you could donate them to RK Online! =)

• 007 x Real Madrid: La Liga Training 2009.11.19 – Valdebebas

    

After joining the Brazil national team against Oman, Ricky is now back in Madrid, preparing for the next La Liga match between Los Galacticos and Racing Santander in Saturday. Photo & article are available below.

• 001 x Real Madrid: La Liga Training – 2009.11.18 (Madrid)

 

It was back to the daily grind for Real Madrid on Wednesday as preparations for Saturday’s match against Racing Santander continue. Kaka has returned from international duty, Gonzalo Higuain, who trained on his own yesterday, worked on several ball drills with the squad and Cristiano Ronaldo continued his recovery protocol.

The bulk of the squad, which today included Gonzalo Higuain, focused their preparations efforts on ball work following their routine morning jog.

Kaka is back in the Spanish capital and did light recover work after leaving Brazil camp following the Seleçao’s victories against England and Oman.

Cristiano Ronaldo continued his recovery work indoors after listening to what Manuel Pellegrini had to say during the team chat. The player was looked at yesterday by the team’s medical staff and had several x-rays taken. All signs indicate that he will be resume training with the squad on Friday.

Source: Real Madrid Official Site

Plus, thanks to the lovely raining_nina at the LJ community, I’ve uploaded two more cute photos of Ricky while he was in the training session in Oman three days ago.

• 002 x Brazil National Team: Training – 2009.11.16 (Muscat, Oman)

  

Here are the photos of Ricky during the Copa del Rey second leg match between Real Madrid and Alcorcon in Santiago Bernabeu last night. Los Blancos beat Alcorcon 1-0 but however the score didn’t make them qualified to go to the next round.

• 030 x Copa del Rey: 2009.11.10 – Real Madrid vs Alcorcon

    

According to Real Madrid’s official website:

Real Madrid tried hard to turn around their first leg defeat against Alcorcon, but had no luck. They dominated the match and had countless chances on goal throughout the entire game, but imprecisions in attack, up to three shots to the posts and goalkeeper Juanma’s excellent performance thwarted their chances and only allowed them to net one strike. Alcorcon made history at the Bernabeu by reaching the Last 16 of Copa del Rey.

Source: Real Madrid Official Site

And here is the full highlights of the match, thanks to wcq2010 at Youtube:

So you guys might have known that Real Madrid lost 4-0 to the segunda division team A.D. Alcorcon at the Copa del Rey, but our man Ricky is very optimistic that Madrid will beat them on the upcoming fourth round of Copa del Rey match in November 10.

He told Madrid’s official website, “For the pride and history of Real Madrid, we have to win this tie. We have improved since the first leg, and I am confident that turn the match around.”

The Brazilian maestro also wants Madrid fans to show up and lend their support to the players.

He added: “Everyone around the club has to be very close; the public and the players. The Bernabeu must have a pressure cooker atmosphere.”

“The public have to be the twelfth player, and their support is crucial and very important to us.”

Source: ESPN Star

Hey guys, this might be the first update! I’ve uploaded Ricky’s photos from the La Liga match between Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid in November 11, 2009 at Vicente Calderon Stadium. Los Galacticos won 3-2 over Atletico, and Ricky scored the earliest! =)

• 032 x La Liga 2009-10: 11.07 – Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid [added 8 more]