{"id":807654,"date":"2026-08-09T06:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807654\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T06:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:54:13","slug":"barcelona-confirm-fc-basel-preseason-friendly-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807654\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona confirm FC Basel preseason friendly in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The friendly will be Bar\u00e7a\u2019s last preseason clash before their annual home curtain raiser when the Blaugrana will face Al-Ahly in the Joan Gamper Trophy on August 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hansi Flick will have his entire first team squad available as the World Cup participants are due back in training on Wednesday, but it remains to be seen how many of those will feature against Basel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Basel finished fifth in the Swiss Super League last season and last met Bar\u00e7a in the 2008-09 Champions League group stage, and Bar\u00e7a will return to the place where they won the 1979 European Cup Winners\u2019 Cup final against Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bar\u00e7a drew away to Birmingham City last week and played two 45-minute halves against Udinese and Nottingham Forest in a triangular tournament in Italy on Saturday, beating the Premier League side before losing 1-0 to the hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The friendly will be Bar\u00e7a\u2019s last preseason clash before their annual home curtain raiser when the Blaugrana will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[107921,403,99],"class_list":["post-807654","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\/807654","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=807654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}