Fresh off his first professional season, Chicago Fire Homegrown midfielder Collin Fernandez didn’t take time to rest on his laurels but instead headed abroad for a two-week training stint with Spanish La Liga side Villarreal from Dec. 6-18.
“I trained with the U-19s for the first week, then the B and C teams in the second week,” said the 18-year-old Fernandez. “The sessions were very technical. They weren’t long but they were very intense. All the players were very technical on the ball. The most common thing was probably how they all had good feet.”
Coincidentally, this was the second consecutive year that the Downers Grove, Ill.