Barcelona-Juventus, suspended due to an outbreak of gastroenteritis

The match that Barcelona and Juventus Torino were supposed to play this Saturday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara (USA) was suspended due to viral gastroenteritis that affected several players of the Spanish teamannounced the club Barcelona via social networks.

“FC Barcelona informs that the match against Juventus FC, scheduled for today, July 22, at 19:30 (4:30 am Spanish time) at Levi’s Stadium corresponding to the Soccer Champions Tour, has been suspended,” he reported.

“An important part of the Barcelona team is infected with viral gastroenteritis,” explained the Barça club on its official Twitter profile.

So far The names and number of players affected by this virus have not been released. On Thursday, the first day of testing in Los Angeles, Jules Koundé worked at a different pace than the rest of the group due to stomach problems.

Barcelona landed in Los Angeles on Wednesday to begin their American tour and after two days of training at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the city of stars, I was planning to play this Saturday night against Juventus.

From then on it was a day trip to Santa Clara, a city on the San Francisco Bay Xavi Hernández’s team was due to fly in from Los Angeles this morning at 10:30 a.m. and they also planned to fly back as soon as the meeting ended at 10:30 p.m.

The match against Juventus was the first on the 2023 Soccer Champions Tour, an initiative that brings Europe’s best soccer teams to the US, and was scheduled to be played at Levi’s Stadium, home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.

He next meeting What Barcelona have on their US friendly schedule is Wednesday, July 26 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles against Arsenal.

Subsequently, according to the planned schedule, Azulgranas will travel to Dallas to face Real Madrid in a classic game on Saturday 29 at AT&T Stadium and will close out their US tour with a final friendly at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on August 1 against AC Milan.