The Frenchman Franck Ribery, a winger for the Bayern Munich, wants to bring the fun and games back to training after several months of rigorous, regimented work under Louis van Gaal. He has a reputation for being a joker in the dressing room and regularly performed hilarious jokes on his team-mates and even former coaches Ottmar Hitzfeld and Jurgen Klinsmann during his first two years with the club.
Ribery may be planning to lighten up his coach, although he admits that the more serious approach to training is also working. However, since Ribery does not believe Van Gaal would see the funny side to any shocking pranks ideas, he has so far kept his head down and followed orders.
Ribery could be fit to make his first start of the season this weekend after recovering from a calf strain picked up while on international duty for France. He was able to train fully on Tuesday and could appear for France in their crucial World Cup qualifier against Serbia tonight, giving him more match fitness to enable Van Gaal to pick him with Arjen Robben in his first-choice team on Saturday.
