Leo Messi and Arturo Vidal, attending to the dinner navideña of the Barcelona

UMTITI IS RECOVERING IN QATAR

Coutinho And Umtiti, absent in the dinner navideña of the Barcelona

Published:19/12/2018 - 23:45h

Updated:20/12/2018 - 01:16h

The FC Barcelona celebrated this Wednesday at night the traditional dinner navideña, to which attended all the members of the staff and the technical body to exception of Samuel Umtiti, that is in Qatar, and Philippe Coutinho, with permission

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By distinct reasons, the FC Barcelona had two absences this Wednesday in the traditional dinner navideña of the staff and the technical body. Samuel Umtiti and Philippe Coutinho could not be presents in the restaurant Via Veneto, of the high zone of Barcelona, where quoted all the footballers and the members of the technical body of Ernesto Valverde to do pineapple and enjoy of the food.

As it informed 'MD', Philippe Coutinho did not attend to the appointment when finding out of the city, with permission of the club when having given Valverde the Tuesday and the Wednesday like free days to the staff culé, before beginning to prepare this Thursday the visit of the Celtic to the Camp Nou.

Coutinho Did not arrive to time to attend to the dinner, whereas Samuel Umtiti finds happening these last days in Qatar, where is ultimando his recovery for reincorporarse what before to the discipline of the FC Barcelona, and leave backwards the annoyances of knee that are racking him this season 2018-19 practically from his start.

The players and technicians attended to the dinner without his respective couples, and like anecdote fits to signal that Ousmane Dembélé was not the last in arriving -was the penultimate-, since this time the 'honour' removed it to him Arthur Melo, that was the one who more delayed .

Leo Messi arrived beside Arturo Vidal and detained to do a photography with a fan before going in in the restaurant, whereas the cameras attracted also the arrival of Samper and Vermaelen, lesionados, and of a Rafinha Alcántara that attended to the appointment with crutches, after having been operated recently of his break of ligament crossed of the knee.

Ernesto Valverde, discreet in his arrival

Ernesto Valverde, ataviado with a scarf to protect of the cold, happened almost unobserved to his arrival, and all the assistants were received in the entrance by the boss of security of the FC Barcelona and other members of the 'staff'. After the dinner of Christmas of this Wednesday, fits to stand out that the FC Barcelona will go back to train this Thursday from the 12 hours of the midday, in the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper.

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