After flying out to Atlanta on Monday, The Dons got their first look at the The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Training Ground on Tuesday when they trained at Atlanta United’s training ground ahead of Wednesday afternoon’s game.

Manager Jim Goodwin spoke to RedTV upon the squads arrival to Atlanta. To watch in full, please click on the red button:

“It is great to be here. It is a trip that has been long in the planning. I think there were plans to come before my arrival to Aberdeen but Covid but a stop to that. It is great to eventually get here to try and build that relationship between the two clubs. We will get the opportunity sometime this week to sit down with the Atlanta United staff and bounce some ideas off of each other. It’s great to be at such a great training facility, it is a state of the art complex. Unfortuinately we seemed to have brought the Aberdeen weather with us today but for the rest of the week it should be pretty good. It should be a very benficial week for everyone both on and off the pitch.

“There is no point in having the partnership that we have if we are not going to have the benefits of it. It is not just about Aberdeen getting the benefits of it, we might be doing things a little bit differently to what the Atlanta United guys do and there might be one or two things that they could learn from us and implement over here.

“Commerically Rob Wicks is here and I know that he has set up a number of valuable meetings that will hopefully work out well for the club going forward. Darren Mowbray our Head of Recruitment is here as well. He has been all over Europe and parts of Africa as well. This is an opportunity for Darren to sit down with the recruimtent guys at Atlanta as well. They may have players that are well suited to the Scottish Premier League and Aberdeen.”