Real Madrid signing Antonio Cassano has so far shed a kilo-and-a-half since going on the club's strict new training and diet regime.
Cassano has been told to drop five kilograms in the next week after arriving in Madrid overweight. The Italian is five centimetres shorter than Real captain Raul, yet at the same age the Spaniard weighed an amazing 11 kilos less!
Real fitness coach Jose Luis San Martín, nutritionist Patricia Teixeira and physiologist Luis Serratosa have been working closely with Cassano since his presentation at the Santiago Bernabeu last week.
It's unlikely Cassano will be considered for Thursday night's Copa del Rey tie with Atletico Madrid because of his condition.