Leo Messi to join the group to travel to St. George’s Park training camp

FC Barcelona concluded their first week of training of the new season on Saturday, with Luis Enrique giving the squad Sunday off to recharge ahead of Monday’s trip to England for the St. George’s Park training camp.

The stage will go on until Saturday 30 July at the state of the art UK-based training facilities. The manager announced the squad, with a very prominent addition, that of Leo Messi.

The Argentine star brings his vacations to an end and, along with Arda Turan, will join the group for a week of training.

The aforementioned duo will join Masip, Suárez, Munir, Sergi Roberto, Adriano, Aleix Vidal, Mathieu, Denis Suárez and Samper to travel to England, as well as Montoya, Tello and 12 players from the reserves.

The rest of the players of the first team will join the squad once their vacations have ended and when their international team commitments come to a close.

Therefore, Luis Enrique has added faces from Barça B to the expedition for the UK and one from the U19s to complete the list: José Suárez, Josep Martínez, Marlon, Martínez, Borja López, Carbonell, Gumbau, Aleñá, Nili, Alfaro, Cámara and Mujica. Cameroonian Wilfrid Kaptoum misses out due to a delay in the arrival of his visa.

Below, we have attached the travel plan of our expedition and the training schedule:

MONDAY 25 JULY

10.15am    Departure of chartered flight CLI-594 to Birmingham

6.30pm      Training (first 15 minutes open to the media)

TUESDAY 26 JULY

10.00am    Training (first 15 minutes open to the media)

11.30am    From here on, attention to media

6.30pm      Training (closed to the media)

WEDNESDAY 27 JULY

10.00am    Training (first 15 minutes open to the media)

11.30am     From here on, attention to media

6.30pm       Training (closed to the media)

THURSDAY 28 JULY

10.00am    Training (first 15 minutes open to the media)

11.30am    From here on, attention to media 

6.30pm    Training (closed to the media)

FRIDAY 29 JULY

10.00am    Training (first 15 minutes open to the media)

11.30am     From here on, attention to media 

6.30pm      Training (closed to the media)

SATURDAY 30 JULY

10.00am    Departure from Birmingham airport, chartered flight AEA937 to Dublin

6.00pm      Celtic-FC Barcelona. ‘International Champions Cup’ match

* All times are local

** Note that the time difference between the United Kingdom and Ireland is -1 hour