Barca To Make US Return

Barcelona decided to chal­lenge the Pre­mier clubs in the United States and become the brand of choice in one of the most untapped soc­cer mar­kets in the world.  The club announced on Christ­mas Eve that they will be mak­ing a return trip to the US instead of going to Asia on an alter­nate basis as they orig­i­nally had planned. The deci­sion was mostly based on the alliance that pres­i­dent Joan Laporta made with Boli­vian mag­nate Marcelo Claure to make a bid for an MLS expan­sion side in the city of Miami.

The pro­vi­sional plans have the blau­grana play­ing a friendly match in the Magic City in order to pro­mote the inten­tions of FC Barcelona there.  The match would most likely take place in the team’s even­tual home– Florida Inter­na­tional Uni­ver­sity Sta­dium.   In addi­tion to Miami, the Barcelona tour will also make stops in Los Ange­les and Seattle.

Last year Barca came to the United States and they made stops in Chicago as well as in New York City.  The lat­ter included a train­ing ses­sion in Cen­tral Park (if you have pics of this please send them to La Liga Talk).  In their stops they played against Mex­i­can side Chivas and MLS runner-up New York Red Bulls.

*** Thanks to Kevin from Unpro­fes­sional Foul for the pics.***