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The 2023/24 pre-season is starting to take shape. The FC Barcelona first team will be back at work on Monday, July 10. That day will see the players have the usual medicals in the morning before the first training session the same afternoon.
Xavi Hernández and the coaching team will put the squad through their paces in Barcelona until June 19, before they fly off to the USA to start their summer tour.
Let’s not forget that Barça are set to play four games in the USA, all against European […]
First team training to recommence on July 10 – FC Barcelona

In the season just ended, Xavi Hernández handed competitive debuts to no fewer than seven different players who have graduated from the FC Barcelona youth system.
The first was Héctor Bellerín is a league fixture against Cadiz.
Shortly after, it was in the final game of the Champions League group stage that Iñaki Peña and Marc Casadó both featured against Viktoria Plzen. The goalkeeper played the full ninety, and the midfielder came on after 67 minutes.
Chadi Riad was the next in the […]
Seven La Masia graduates make FC Barcelona first team debuts

Barça’s game against Vissel Kobe saw a total of six players make their debuts for the first team: Julian Araujo, Dani Rodríguez, Pau Prim, Marc Guiu, Hector Fort and Unai Hernández.
Julian Araujo, Dani Rodríguez and Pau Prim were included in the starting XI with the others coming on in the second half. 
Wearing number 2 on his back, Julián Araujo made his first appearance for FC Barcelona. The 21 year old Mexican international was signed by Barça Atlètic in January and played all 90 […]
The debutants against Vissel Kobe – one by one – FC Barcelona

It was less than 48 hours since their last league fixture with an over 10,000 km flight in between, but that neither that nor the rain in southern Japan could prevent FC Barcelona from cruising to victory in their end-of-season friendly against J-League outfit Vissel Kobe.
And alongside the experienced regulars, there were also a number of young debutants in the side. Mexican full-back Julián Araujo, Catalan midfielder Prim Coma and Basque forward Dani Rodriguez all started the match, while […]
Vissel Kobe 0–2 FC Barcelona: Arigato, Iniesta!

After a flight lasting over 15 hours, FC Barcelona have arrived in Haneda, Japan. They departed directly from Santiago de Compostela after the side played their final Liga game against Celta in Vigo on Sunday.
Barça are there to play a friendly against Vissel Kobe featuring Andrés Iniesta and Sergi Samper to bring the 22/23 season to a close. The game kicks off at 7.30pm in Japan (12.30pm in Barcelona) and will be the 17th time Barça have played in Japan.
The travelling party is led by […]
FC Barcelona arrive in Japan for Vissel Kobe friendly

La Liga 2022/2023 is over and FC Barcelona were crowned champions for the first time in four years. And they did it playing sublime football in both attack and defence, and leaving all kinds of stats that will go down in the history books:
After losing 3 of their last 4 games, Barça eventually finished the league on 88 points, ten more than their closest chaser, Real Madrid. That means they end up just short of Napoli (90) and Manchester City (89), but with more than PSG (85) and Bayern Munich […]
FC Barcelona's Liga by the numbers

Barça are currently en route to Japan to play a friendly against Vissel Kobe featuring Andrés Iniesta and Sergi Samper on June 6. It’s four years since the team last visited a country where they have played sixteen times in the past.
Six of those games were part of three different Club World Cups that the team appeared in, all in Yokohama. In 2006, Barça lost the final to Brazilian side Internacional Porto Alegre after beating Amèrica of Mexico in the semis.
However, they were victorious on […]
Sixteen previous FC Barcelona games in Japan