The Yellow Canaries took to the training ground on Sunday, as they continued preparations for this weekend's Turkcell Süper Lig home fixture against Eskişehirspor. Chilean midfielder Claudio Maldonado, who took a knock in training last week, resumed practice on Sunday. Meanwhile, coach Luis Aragones was to travel to Spain on Monday to take part in an awards ceremony.

Sunday evening's practice at the Samandıra Training Facilities began at 18:00 (6 PM) with coach Luis Aragones' team talk on centre pitch. Then his assistant Carlos Cascallana warmed up the players in the squad with some running and coordination drills.

The Yellow Canaries then had a scrimmage match and ended the practice session with stretching exercises. As Fenerbahçe was missing several key players who were away on national duty, two more youngsters from the reserve team joined goalkeepers Ertuğrul Taşkıran and Alper Piliç as they all trained with the professional team.

Fenerbahçe reserve team coordinator Şenol Çorlu also kept track of his players' work, on the sidelines. Meanwhile injured player Claudio Maldonado returned back to the training ground, as the Chilean defensive midfielder jogged around the field under coach Carlos Cascallana's supervision. He also briefly took part in the second half of the scrimmage match.

Fenerbahçe players took a day off from training on Monday. The Yellow Canaries manager was to travel to Madrid on Monday, where the Spanish Royal Family were going to honour Luis Aragones and the Spanish National Football Team for their success in last summer's Euro 2008 finals. Aragones is to report back to Istanbul on Tuesday.

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After giving a one day break, the Yellow Canaries were back on the training ground on Monday morning to continue preparations for the upcoming Turkcell Süper Lig fixture against Bursaspor. Goalkeeper Volkan Demirel and Deivid de Souza resumed training on Monday after having missed practice for most of the last week.

Monday morning's practice at the Samandıra Training Facilities began at 11:00 AM and lasted for about one and a half hours. At the beginning of the training session, coach Carlos Cascallana warmed-up the players in the squad with some jogging drills.

Then the Yellow Canaries squad divided up into three groups. While one group was practicing stationing drills, the other groups were practicing ball stealing and conducting running drills. All three groups practiced these drills in turns and then ended the practice session with stretching exercises.

Injured players Volkan Demirel and Deivid de Souza returned back to the training ground on Monday morning's practice. While Volkan took part in seperate goalkeeping training supervised by coach Angel Ferez, Deivid de Souza practiced with personal trainer Dolu Arslan. Deivid also commenced some light drills with the ball.

Meanwhile, other injured players Gökhan Gönül, Josico Verdu and Alex de Souza continued their treatments and training inside the facilities. Also, before the morning's practice session, some of the players in the squad gave blood samples to a group of nurses from the Acıbadem Hospital for some tests. The rest of the squad will give their blood samples before tomorrow morning's practice which is due to start at the same time, 11:00 AM.

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