OFFICIAL: The Barça confirms turns it of pre-season by U.S.

The FC Barcelona has announced officially, by means of a communiqué, the dates of the mini-turns of pre-season by United States that will face during the month of August, with two friendly parties in front of the Naples. The ones of Ernesto Valverde will measure to the ones of Carlo Ancelotti the days 7 and 10 August, with the exact schedule still for confirming, first in Miami and afterwards in Michigan.

Like this the things, confirms that the pre-season 2019 will divide in two parts: the first will carry to the expedition culé until Japan, where will play on 23 July in front of Chelsea (12.30 Spanish hour) in front of the Vissel Kobe four days afterwards, the 27. To continuation, the staff culé will leave course to United States to follow with the second part of the pre-season, with the two parties in front of the Napoli the days 7 and 10 August.

Said parties will correspond to a tournament of new creation, 'LaLiga Series To Cup', that will confront to two teams of both competitions, in this case the champion of LaLiga and the runner-up of the Series To. The first of the crashes will celebrate in the Hard Rock Stadium of Miami, where the FC Barcelona already won to the Real Madrid (3-2) in the friendly contested in summer of 2017. The following duel will take place in the MichiganStadium , with capacity for nothing less than 107.000 viewers.

This will be the first time that the Barcelona visit U.S. in three consecutive pre-seasons. In summer of 2017, the group culé played three parties in New York, Washington and Miami, whereas the past year did it in Los Angeles, Dallas and San Francisco, in addition to going through Portland. For the Barça, there is not doubt that the North American territory is prioritario regarding the global implantation of the mark Barça.

The club has a permanent office in New York from 2016, and is still in disposal to generate a big mass of followers in United States, emergent country from the point of view futbolístico, and where increasingly young practise this sport. It turns it of pre-season by U.S., besides, will be a new opportunity to generate income and achieve 'partners' that they can follow improving economically to the club.

The Trophy Joan Gamper and another friendly, for confirming

From now, the only incógnita that remains for resolving is when -and against who- will play the FC Barcelona the Trophy Joan Gamper 2019, and also if it will face some another independent friendly party. It had spoken a lot of a crash in front of the Zenith of just St. Petersburg after turns it by Japan, but for now there is not at all confirmed to official level. For now, they handle the dates of 1 August for the friendly in question, and of 4 August for the Gamper in the Camp Nou.