{"id":800009,"date":"2026-08-02T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:01:10","slug":"barcelona-cancel-closed-doors-friendly-against-preston-north-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800009\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona cancel closed doors friendly against Preston North End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Barcelona had planned a closed doors friendly against Preston North End of the English Championship in the final day of their training camp in England on Monday, but the match is now off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to Mundo Deportivo, Preston would only be able to field an under-21 squad due to several injuries in the first team and Hansi Flick\u2019s staff decided the competition wouldn\u2019t be strong enough to test his squad, therefore the group will have a normal training session on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The cancellation also affects Bar\u00e7a\u2019s travel plans, according to the report: the friendly would end in the evening with the squad then traveling back to Catalonia late on Monday, with an arrival expected in the early hours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With the change of plans the Blaugrana will return home as soon as the training session ends in the afternoon, arriving home still on Monday night before the squad go back to training at their usual base in the Catalan capital on Wednesday as they begin preparations for the weekend\u2019s three-way tournament against Udinese and Nottingham Forest in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona had planned a closed doors friendly against Preston North End of the English Championship in the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[107921,403,99],"class_list":["post-800009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-preseason","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}