Radical change in the celebration of the Joan Gamper trophy, which changes its formula, dates and rivals. The Cougars of Mexico It will be the team that will face the men’s Barça Sunday, August 7 at 8:00 p.m. while Montpellier will be measured with the feminine, on a different day, on Sunday, August 23, at the same time, at the Johan Cruyff Stadium.
The resignation of Romewhen he had already agreed to participate in the Barça tournament with his two teams August 6th It has caused an anxiety in the club in view of the changes that it has had to operate in the organization of the preseason. The capital team was going to meet the men’s and women’s teams, in a double date that was put into practice for the first time last summer with Juventus and two clashes at the Johan Cruyff.
Roma unilaterally terminated the contract on June 27, alleging the modification of its friendly schedule. Barça urgently searched for a substitute -two actually- and contacted Milan. The negotiations also did not come to fruition. The difficulty of finding a club that could provide two top-level teams to face Barça led the club to diversify the search. The male will face a Mexican team, the female, a French one. And on separate days, when in the first instance they played on the same day and at times that allowed fans to go to both fields.
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Pumas and Montpellier will be the rivals of the @FCBarcelona_es Y @FCBFemni at the Joan Gamper Trophy ?
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It will be the first participation of the Club of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), popularly known as the Pumas. With a reputation for taking care of the quarry, where his best-known footballer, the ex-Madrid player, came from Hugo Sanchez, has been eleven years (since 2011) without winning the League title. The team has a new coach, Andrés Lillini, and the championship has already started.
Montpellier finished fifth in the French League, always dominated by Olympique de Lyon and PSG, and opens the competition on August 7, which should delay its participation in the Gamper.