Munster Get In Top Condition At La Manga Club

In a bid to ensure the Irish outfit retains their 1st place on the ERC European Rankings ahead of Toulouse - winners of the 2010 Heineken Cup Final - more than 40 players from the squad, the coaching team and physio's spent a week at the five-star La Manga Club villas resort.

The warm-weather training camp in south-eastern Spain offers a first-class, year-round practice facility in an ideal climate. The week-long break gave the Magners League team the perfect start to the campaign, allowing them to undergo some warm-weather training on first-class facilities that has previously hosted Middleborough FC, Real Betis, Castleford Tigers, the Great Britain Rugby League squad and Glen Hoddle's 1998 England World Cup Football squad.

Everything Munster Rugby Club needed was provided: from the top quality rugby pitches and villa holiday accommodation of the highest standards to full catering services, a host of other activities such as golf, tennis, a fully equipped Fitness Centre.

Munster Director of Rugby, Tony McGahan, who is tasked with the job of ensuring the club achieves domestic and European honours in 2010/11 said: "The resort provided us with the ideal environment in which to prepare for the season ahead and I would have no hesitation in recommending it to other sports groups."

Location

La Manga Club is located in a unique setting amid the rolling hills that separate the crystalline Mediterranean from the warm waters of the Mar Menor Sea in Murcia, southern Spain. Lying to the south of the Costa Blanca, this region is known as the Costa Cálida, or 'warm coast', thanks to its mild, year-round Mediterranean climate.

With sandy beaches fronting both the Mediterranean and the Mar Menor, the region is also ideal for water sports, and numerous sailing centres offer lessons in windsurfing, waterskiing and sailing.

By: Scott Hurley

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