Mar 17, 2021 at 06:30
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Barça, which this Tuesday recovered thirteen of its fifteen internationals -the Brazilians Lángago and Thiagus Petrus have not yet arrived- it is measured this Wednesday (4:00 p.m.), at the Palau Blaugrana, at Quabit Guadalajara in the return to the ASOBAL League.
The most positive aspect of these commitments is the fact that the Barça internationals from France, Brazil and Portugal have achieved their qualification for the Tokyo Olympic Games and thus join those of Denmark and Spain, also classified.
The Guadajara will be the first of the four games -3 in the ASOBAL League and one in the Champions League- that the Catalan team will theoretically play in the next fourteen days. On Saturday, the 20th, he will receive Cantabria and on the 27th he will play on the Valladolid court.
Four days later, the team should travel to Elverum (Norway) to play, on Wednesday, the 31st, the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League.
The fact that it is not possible to travel to the Norwegian court due to the closure of its borders by COVID-19, could lead to the two games being played at the Palau.
The coach of the Barça team, Xavi Pascual, is concerned about the physical wear and tear that his squad is enduring. On this occasion, only French pivot Cedric Sorhaindo, Slovenian center-back Domen Makuc, Spanish winger Áleix Gómez and Icelandic full-back Aron Palmarsson have been training in Barcelona. “My players have had brutal competitive ‘stress'”, said the Barcelona coach yesterday.
The physical condition of Danish international winger Casper Mortensen, who was operated on for the second time in early November for a torn external meniscus in his left knee, could bring him back to the team in mid-April.
The remaining nineteen players in the squad are at Pascual’s disposal, but he could add some of the usual Barça ‘B’ youngsters to continue with the rotations.
The Quabit Guadalajara, coached by Mariano Ortega, is twelfth in the table and with one game less than the Catalans. He arrives at the Palau with two victories, a draw and a defeat in the last four days.
Led by the incombustible Madrid international goal of 48 years, Jose Javier HombradosAlcarreños have a compensated and young squad – except Hombrados, the rest are no more than 25 years old – in which the Brazilian full-back William Da Souza stands out, who, with 105 goals, is in the Top-10 of the championship’s scorers.
Also noteworthy are the young players Ismael El Korchi, junior Spanish international, and Javi Rodríguez, youth international.
In addition to these, Ortega has also had other players out for national teams: the central Giacomo Savini, with Italy, the pivot Gastón Mouriño, with Argentina, and the left-handed side Arthur Pereira, with Brazil.
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