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After a long and difficult season, FC Barcelona players would have done well without a trip to the other side of the world at the end of May to play a friendly match in Australia against an All Star team from the local championship. According to the daily El Periodico, the Blaugrana had also informed their coach, Xavi. And he didn’t really like it…
Faced with the rumble, the Barça coach would have responded quite curtly to reframe his players, explaining to them that the profits from this meeting were used in particular to pay their salaries. “Now, if you put 5 million euros on the table from your pocket, I take them to the president and we don’t go to Australia”, would have launched the former midfielder in particular.
Finally, the Barcelonans agreed to fly to Sydney and won this friendly match (3-2).
