Training again - 21 players participated

Pep Guardiola trained on Tuesday with 21 players, eight from the first team -Pinto, Maxwell, Adriano, Milito, Abidal, Víctor Sánchez, Keita and Iniesta(!), ten Barca B players who went on the Asia Tour - Oier, Miño, Sergi Gómez, Fontàs, Muniesa, Jonathan dos Santos, Riverola, Sergi Roberto, Nolito and Víctor Vázquez and three of the Spanish under-19 squad, Bartra, Thiago and Oriol Romeu

The rest of the B team players who went on the Asia Tour will train this week with B team boss Luis Enrique, whilst Guardiola will work with the players he had today for the rest of the week.

There were two special guests at this evening’s session with Sporting Director of Professional Football Andoni Zubizarreta and Mazinho – the father of Thiago Alcántara renewing the friendship they had when they both played for Valencia between 1994 and 1996.

The ball used in training was the ‘Jabulani’ ball used in the South African World Cup, which will also be the one to be used in Saturday’s Super Cup game against Seville.

The team will train at 9.00 and 19.00 on Wednesday and Andres Iniesta will speak to the media after the morning session.