BARCELONA, 2 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first team of FC Barcelona trained this Monday at the Spotify Camp Nou in the traditional open-door Christmas training, with more than 15,000 fans in the stands in a solidarity session that preceded the visit of the players, ‘staff’ and management to children and hospitalized girls.
“A great Barça morning at the Spotify Camp Nou. This Monday the stadium experienced a great festive atmosphere in its stands, where 15,324 culés enjoyed the usual open-door training session organized by the Fundació FC Barcelona live,” the Blaugrana club explained.
The blaugrana arena was filled with fans, with many families and boys and girls, who were able to watch the team’s training session live -before Wednesday’s debut in the Copa del Rey, against Intercity- and, some, achieve the signature of the players of Xavi Hernández.
The Camp Nou Spotify grandstand, both the first and second tier, as well as the first tier on the side, were filled with fans dressed in shirts, banners and flags to cheer on their players and also try to ask them for photos and gifts.
Goals from Lewandowski, dribbles from Dembélé and Raphinha or saves from Ter Stegen were on the menu of an already usual open training session at this time and that this time had a preparation part, for that cup debut, and it was not only entertainment.
At the end of the session, the players threw balls into the audience and greeted the boys and girls in the front rows. Some players, like Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba or Eric García, took pictures with the fans.
The total collection of the tickets for this training will benefit the FC Barcelona Foundation’s ‘Robots Project’, which allows hospitalized children or people in a vulnerable situation, who cannot travel to the FC Barcelona facilities, to experience the Barça experience through a robot with audio and video connections.
Subsequently, the first team players visited the boys and girls hospitalized in the different hospitals in Barcelona. A tradition recovered after two years without being able to do so due to the coronavirus pandemic.