Santa Clara (USA), (EFE).- The match that Barcelona and Juventus Turin were going to play this Saturday at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara (United States) has been suspended due to viral gastroenteritis that has affected several players of the Spanish team, the Barça club announced through social networks.
“FC Barcelona informs that the match against Juventus FC, scheduled for today, July 22 at 7:30 p.m. (4:30 CET) at the Levi’s Stadium corresponding to the Soccer Champions Tour, has been suspended,” it reported.
An important part of the Barcelona squad is affected by viral gastroenteritis, ”explains the Barça club on its official Twitter profile.
For now, the names and number of players affected by this virus have not been released.
On Thursday, on 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 start their US tour and, after two days of training at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the city of stars, they were scheduled to play this Saturday night against Juventus.
It was a day trip to Santa Clara, a city on the San Francisco Bay, since Xavi Hernández’s team was going to fly this morning from Los Angeles at 10:30 a.m. and planned to also return by plane as soon as the match ended at 10:30 p.m.
The match against Juventus was the first of the Soccer Champions Tour in 2023, an initiative that brings the best European soccer teams to the US, and was to be played at Levi’s Stadium, where the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers play their matches.
The next match that Barcelona has on its friendly schedule in the US is on Wednesday, July 26 at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles against Arsenal.
Subsequently, according to the scheduled schedule, the blaugranas will travel to Dallas to face Real Madrid in a classic that will be played on Saturday the 29th at the AT&T Stadium and they will close their US tour with a final friendly at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on August 1 against Milan.