These are the details of the pre-season of the Barça 2018-19

The FC Barcelona already knows when will return of the holidays. The next 16 July is the official date in which it is foreseen that it give beginning the pre-season of the FC Barcelona 2018-19, although of course it will do it without the big majority of the international culés, that will have contested during the previous days the World-wide of Russia 2018 with his respective selections.

The case is that on 16 July will begin the first trainings with players of the first team and of the inferior categories, and the next 24 July the Barcelona expedition will travel until the United States to contest the International Champions Cup a year more.

The FC Barcelona will contest a total of three parties in the quoted tournament of pre-season. The group culé will initiate the competition on 28 July in front of the Tottenham, in Rose Bowl of Los Angeles (20:00 local hour, 5:00 Catalan hour of the day 29).

The second party will play on 31 July against the Rome in the AT&T Stadium of Dallas (20:30 local hour, 3:30 Catalan hour of 1 August). And, finally, the ones of Ernesto Valverde will close his participation in the International Champions Cup on 4 August in Levi's Stadium of San Francisco, confronting to the AC Milan (17:00 local hour, 2:00 Catalan hour of 5 August).

This last party will be of special interest for the fans culé and also for the staff of the FC Barcelona, since it will look for 'vendetta' after the bochornosa elimination suffered by the FC Barcelona does some days, in the round of quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.

This will be the eighth time that the FC Barcelona plays the pre-season in United States. In the year 2003, the men of Frank Rijkaard played three parties in North American territory against the Juventus, the AC Milan and the Manchester United. Three years later, the culés played against the Chivas of Guadalajara, the Lovérich and the New York Redbull.

Hard challenge for Valverde to the hour to manage the staff

This year, the pre-season 2018 could do especially hard for the players of the FC Barcelona, that will arrive practically without holidays because of the dispute of the World-wide of Russia 2018, and to the fact to having lived in the last months a loaded campaign of important parties. The players, this yes, will go incorporating of staggered way in function of until where have arrived in the World-wide 2018.

The management of the staff of Valverde will be important, as well as the movements that can give in the staff -signings and traspasos- to improve the competitiveness of the Barcelona group and turn it into serious applicant to win the Champions League the next season, and also the rest of titles. The blaugrana, besides, will have to be prepared to guarantee the achievement of the Supercopa of Spain against the Seville, still with official date for confirming, but that is foreseen that it play around the middle of August.