Barça have welcomed back the 12 players from International duty. With only the absence of Piqué on the pitch, Guardiola began to prepare for Saturday's league match, away at Real Sociedad.
Thursday at 10.00
The next first team training session will be on Thursday at 10.00 at the training ground. The
session will be closed to the media. Later, Eric Abidal will appear at a press conference.
After a week without a large part of the squad, finally, on Wednesday afternoon, Pep Guardiola had
them all back. After their commitments with their national teams, the 13 Barça Internationals
returned to training: Messi, Mascherano, Alves, Alexis, Abidal, Thiago, Valdes, Iniesta, Xavi,
Cesc, Pedro, Sergio Busquets and Villa.
Light session for the Internationals
Players who played for their national sides on Tuesday had a light session, focused
on recovery work, while the rest, including the injured players Afellay, Adriano, Puyol, and
Maxwell, all worked at one hundred percent to prepare for the game on Saturday against Real
Sociedad.
The only player absent on pitch number 2 of the training ground was Gerard Pique, who did
some work in the gym to help him recover from his injury.
Six reserve players
The six B Team players who trained with the first team on Tuesday, did the same
again this afternoon. They were Oriol Rosell, Gustavo, Gerard Deulofeu, Cuenca, Lobato, and
Carmona.