Barça will appoint Xavier Corbella as the new head of medical services

The directive of the FC Barcelona continues doing changes in the first team, and this time the turn has arrived for one of the departments that more inconvenient has faced in the last seasons: the medical services. As it advanced 'Chronic Global', the doctor Xavier Corbella will assume the medical leadership in the next days, in replacement of Ramón Channel.

Channel occupied the charge from 2006 and arrived in the first presidency of Joan Laporta, but did not have the backrest of the current managerial neither the one of Xavi Hernández. Instead, Corbella arrives with the guarantee of the míster of Terrassa, from the leadership of Internal Medicine of the Hospital Universitari of Bellvitge (HUB) of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.

With 57 years, the doctor has been medical director of the Hospitals of the Foundation Althaia in Manresa (2005-2007) and director manager of the University Hospital of Bellvitge (2007-2012), Also went director manager of the Metropolitan Area South of the ICS (2009-2012) and director manager of the Hospital of Sant Pau (2012-2013).

From 2013 it exerts like manager of the Service of Internal Medicine in the HUB and vicedecano of the Faculty of Medicine and Sciences of the Health of the International University of Catalonia (UIC). Corbella Will work of the hand with the doctor Ricard Pruna, the one who from December is the main doctor of the first team. Pruna Returned in December by request of Xavi, the one who considers him like "the best doctor that has had the team".

The end of the 'bloodletting' of injuries, primary aim of the club

Pruna And Corbella will work to delete the plague of injuries in the Barça, one of the main problems of the last seasons. The recovery of Ansu Fati is objective number one, as well as attend the physical problems that have tortured in the last months to players like Sergi Roberto, Eric García and, recently, to Memphis Depay.