Catalan sports newspapers report that FC Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi, is close to recovering for upcoming clash with Real Madrid.
Ivorian international Yaya Toure, recovered from swine flu and attended the latest training session. Lionel Messi was also present but he was practicing alone as he is still undergoing his special recovery treatment.
Messi, Ibrahimovic and Dani Alves missed [...]
FC Barcelona first team conducted the Sunday morning training session without injured Henry and Chygrynskiy and Ibrahimovic, Alves, Messi and Xavi, who stayed in the gym to do recovery work.
The team returned to Barcelona at around 1AM and as soon as 11AM, the first team was already in Ciudad Deportiva for their usual training. After [...]
Zlatan Ibrahimovic took part in his first training session with Barca. The Swedish striker received loud ovations from his teammates on the pitch of the University of Washington, Seattle. He successfully healed his injury and was able to train normally with the whole group.
Pep grouped him together with his teammate from Inter, Maxwell and Henrique [...]
Players that participated in international competitions were allowed to protract their vacations for one week. Xavi, Puyol, Pique, Iniesta, Alves and Sergio Busquets return today to undergo medical examinations.
In the afternoon training session they will try to catch the pace of the pre-season and get prepared for the season which is looming ahead.
Andres Iniesta [...]