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SPORTS WORLD Editorial
Gavi He wears a smile while preparing with intensity and with the FC Barcelona squad for the resumption of the League next Saturday in Balaídos against Celta (9 p.m.). Today marks exactly one year since the serious knee injury that the midfielder suffered while playing with the Spanish team against Georgia. On October 20, in the 83rd minute of Barça-Sevilla, the youth player played a game again 348 days later and, since then, he has been adding competitive shooting, with a total of 48 minutes spread over 6 games between the League and the Champions League. Hansi FlickBarça coach, wants to resume the path of triumph that was broken in the last League match against Real Sociedad before the FIFA break and it can be seen in the intensity with which his footballers work at the Ciutat Esportiva.
Under the watchful eye of the German coach, the intense physical work marks a session scheduled four days before the League leader returns to a calendar that will once again feature matches every three days, between the league tournament and the Champions League: Celta, Stade Brestois, Las Palmas, Mallorca, Betis and Borussia Dortmund await consecutively in three weeks. The goalkeepers Iñaki Peña and Wojciech Szczęsnyvery thoroughly, they meet that bar of high physical demand with which Flick wants to maintain high sporting performance.
The participation of two of the eight internationals who still have pending matches with their national teams will be completed in the next few hours. The midfielder Pablo Torre plays this Tuesday afternoon with the Spanish under-21 team against Denmark at the Carlos Belmonte in Albacete (7 p.m.) and the winger Raphinha Brazil plays a highly demanding match in the early hours of Tuesday to Wednesday (1.45am CET) against Uruguay, in a qualifying event for the World Cup at the Fonte Nova Arena in Salvador de Bahia. With this match, all the Blaugrana will have already finished their commitments with their respective teams.
