BARÇA IS ALREADY PREPARING FOR THIS WEEKEND'S CLASSIC
The latest star to join Barça's tour of the United States
Published:2/08/2024 - 09:23h
Updated:2/08/2024 - 09:23h
The FC Barcelona continues adding international this week, his first in American floor. The Barcelona team received this Thursday to a new footballer that has contested the Eurocopa 2024 in Germany
After playing their first friendly in the United States against Manchester City, FC Barcelona travelled from Florida to Maryland, the town that will be the Barça headquarters until the end of the tour, to continue their preparation for the new season. There, the Blaugrana club welcomed the last player who was scheduled to arrive on American soil: Jules Koundé.
The Frenchman arrived in the city of Annapolis on Thursday afternoon and has already joined the first team dynamic. The full-back reports after having been a semi-finalist in the last European Championship, which has given him a few extra days of vacation, as in the cases of Raphinha and Gündogan, who stayed in the quarter-finals of the Copa América and Euro, respectively.
Koundé Has not wanted to lose time in this pre-season
Koundé Has marked like this the fourth whole day in United States of the Catalan team, being the main novelty of the session vespertina in the fields of training of the US Naval Academy, after a first matutinal session in which the players have exercised inside the installations. It is necessary to highlight that the incorporation of the French closes like this the listing of players that will participate in this turns, since the rest of footballers will go back to work directly in Barcelona, as it is the case of Lamine Yamal and Ferran Torres.
A training with the Real Madrid in the horizon
The double session of this Thursday, the first that has taken place in Annapolis, has carried out to so only 48 hours of the expected duel in front of the Real Madrid. It will play in the MetLife Stadium next Saturday 3, from the 19:00 hours (the 01:00 hours of the morning of the Saturday to the Sunday in Barcelona), in which it will be the third Classical of pre-season that plays of consecutive way in United States.
