After closing the official season with the Villarreal in it Camp Nou with defeat (0-2) last Sunday, the Barça he flew directly to Australia to play one last game, in this case a friendly against a team of the best players in the Australian league.
The meeting, which will be played tomorrow in Sidney at 12 noon (time in Spain, 7:00 p.m. in Australia) in the Accor Stadiumwith capacity for 80,000 people, will be a good pinch for the coffers of the FC Barcelona. Altogether, the Barça will enter some five million euros, a not insignificant figure that will help cushion the blow of having been left out of the Champions League in the group stage and falling in the quarterfinals in the Europa League. Both setbacks meant that the Barça stop entering 16.7 million.
To these five million euros for the bolus of Australia add the three that the Barça already entered last December for participating in the Maradona Cup in Saudi Arabia beside Boca Juniors.
In the summer, he tours the US.
Once this friendly Australiacountry that the Barça visit for the first time in its history, the staff of the FC Barcelona will begin his vacation until July 4, when he will return to work to begin a very demanding season, and with world from Qatar in the middle.
After two weeks of training, the Barça will move to USA to go on a tour. For now two matches are confirmed, on July 19 in Miami against him Miami Inter and on the 30th before the New York Red Bulls in New Jersey. There will be two others before him. Real Madrid in Las Vegas the 23rd and the Juventus on the 26th The Angels.
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