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FC Barcelona to play friendly against FC Red Bull Salzburg

Preseason encounter is a 7.00pm CEST kick-off on August 4 at the Red Bull Arena
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FC Barcelona’s preseason is taking further shape. A fourth game has been announced on Wednesday, and it will be against FC Red Bull Salzburg at its Red Bull Arena next Wednesday 4 August at 7.00pm CEST.

Like all of the preseason friendlies this summer, the game is being broadcast worldwide on Barça TV+.

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The game in Austria follows on from others against Gimnàstic Tarragona (21/7), Girona (24/7) and Stuttgart (31/7), and will mark the end of the training camp being held in Baden-Württemberg, Germany from July 28 to August 3. The team will be heading straight to Salzburg for the friendly and will then fly from there back to Barcelona.

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First ever meeting

Surprisingly, although Barça has a very long history of games against Austrian teams, particularly in the earlier part of the 20th century, and although FC Red Bull Salzburg have been a regular feature of the Champions League in recent years, this is the first time the sides have ever met, wither in an official competition or in a friendly

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