After qualifying, last Tuesday, for the Champions League Final on May 28th at Wembley, the players had 2 days off, and returned to training this Friday. The team trained at the Joan Gamper training ground at 11.00 in the first of three preparatory sessions scheduled by the coaching staff before Sunday's league match at the Camp Nou against Espanyol.

Without doubt, and for what was seen in the first 15 minutes of the training session, which was open to the press, the good news of the day was to see Bojan Krkic participating with rest of the group. Bojan was injured on April 9th in the game against Almeria at the Camp Nou. The striker was diagnosed with a partially torn posterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, and was scheduled to be out for 6 to 8 weeks.

Puyol, Adriano and Maxwell, away from the group; Milito in the gym

P uyol, along with Adriano, recovering from a hamstring injury to his right thigh and Maxwell, recovering from a groin strain, did some specific recovery work away from the group, with one of the Barcelona recovery coaches.The only absence on the training ground was Milito, who was in the gym doing some specific excercises to help him recover from a torn hamstring in his left thigh.

Happy Birthday Alves

At the very beginning of the session, the 20 first team players and Barça B player Thiago, plus members of the coaching staff, got together in the middle of the field to cheer Dani Alves on his 28th birthday today.

UEFA Anti-Doping Control

For the third time so far this season, UEFA performed a surprise anti-doping test after the session. Ten players took the test: Valdés, Piqué, Puyol, Villa, Iniesta, Bojan, Jeffren, Keita, Adriano and Abidal.