Ghana midfielder Thomas Teye Partey has commenced pre-season with Atletico Madrid ahead of the upcoming Spanish La Liga season.

The former Almeria enforcer has been included in Deigo Simeone's first team side for the 2017/18 top-fight campaign having excelled in last season's outing with cameo playing time.

The 24-year-old was part of the 19 playing contingent out of which 14 are first team players and 5 being youth stars that reported for today's endurance training sessions at their training grounds in the Spanish capital.

Partey was heavily involved in Ghana's 5-0 thumping of the Walias of Ethiopia in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium last month, but opted out from the team's double header international friendly games against Mexico and USA.

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