The pre-season of the Barça has begun with setbacks. The first party programmed to prepare to the team has suspended because of a gastroenteritis vírica that has affected to several members of the Barcelona staff. In addition to putting in risk the health of the players, the club has left to perceive an important quantity of money by the sale of entrances, some 2 or 3 million euros roughly. Although the institution blaugrana ensures that the footballers will be smart for the clash of the Wednesday against the Arsenal, is unavoidable to doubt on how will arrive the players to this meeting. This has trastocado the planning of Xavi, since after losing a party a preparation, does not have the certainty that his pupilos can be to 100% of his capacities to face the second game.

The situation has forced to that Xavi and to his 'staff' of work have had to give him a twist of 180° to his planning of pre-season. The egarense has had to modify the trainings and the loads of work, owing to that the affected by virus will take some days in putting to the level of the rest. It is important recalcar that from the club are treating and analysing each case of a way individualizada. It expects to that the reincorporación of the footballers do of progressive way, to measure that go evolving.

The culés will restart the trainings the Monday

The FC Barcelona trusts that once that it stabilise the scope of the virus, can eradicate it completely of the expedition culé, so that the team was entirely healthy of face to the four big meetings that has in the diary: Arsenal, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Tottenham in Joan Gamper. By the moment, the club has announced an open training to the means this Monday, with included press conference. For now, the combined of the City Condal trusts that there are not more unpleasant surprises in turns it.

This is the second pre-season 'rugged' consecutive for the Barça

The institution of the Catalan capital had one turns complicated by the United States the past season. In that opportunity, the delegation blaugrana was attacked by a wave of heat insoportable so much in Fort Lauderdale as in Dallas and The Vegas, what forced to the team to suspend several trainings by the unsustainable climatic conditions. For this pre-season, scheduled everything with the owed antelación, choosing sustainable places to avoid this type of problems. Up to now, the Memorial Coliseum had been the ideal place so that the Barcelona developed his works. However, lamentably, in this new pre-season the setbacks did not arrive by courtesy of the climate, but by questions of health.