25 players to go on tour

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25.07.2011 20:47

25 players to go on tour

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Josep Guardiola has announced the names of the players that will travel to the Audi Cup that starts this Tuesday and also the Turkish Airlines US Tour 2011, which gets under way on Thursday 28.

The squad of 25:

Goalkeepers: Vald�s, Pinto and Masip
Defenders: Puyol, Muniesa, Piqu�, Balliu, Rosell, Maxwell, Font�s, Abidal
Midfielders: Busquets, Keita, Riverola, Thiago, Iniesta, Carmona, Xavi, Dos Santos
Forwards: Cuenca, Soriano, Afellay, Jeffren, Pedro, Villa

Nine Bar�a B players will get the chance to travel with the first team on the US Tour. The names picked by Guardiola are Masip, Muniesa, Balliu, Rosell, Riverola, Carmona, Dos Santos, Cuenca and Soriano. The other sixteen players come from the first team, although the South Americans that played in this summer’s Copa America (namely Alexis S�nchez, Leo Messi, Javier Mascherano, Gaby Milito, Dani Alves and Adriano Correia) will not be going to the USA.

Same as Munich

The same 25 players will also be travelling to Munich for games in the Audi Cup on Tuesday and Wednesday. Three Bar�a B reinforcements will also be going to Germany (Gustavo Ledes, Armando Lozano and Javi Espinosa), where the team will play Internacional Porto Alegre and then either AC Milan or Bayern de Munic. Those three will return to Barcelona after the tournament.