Barça basketball is transmitted on the screen and level up in his preseason. After the first week of work at the Palau Blaugrana, Joan Peñarroya and his players They will arrive today in Hangzhou, China, where they will be until next September 5, continues the set-up for the first two tournaments of the campaign: the Catalan League and the Endesa Super Cup.
After acclimatizing to the weather in the Asian country and ‘surviving’ the jet-lag, the Barça expedition will conduct, in addition to training, promotional events which will serve to expand the brand of Barça and Catalonia, and give greater visibility to European basketball.
This is not a new experience in Barça basketball, ever The team returns a decade later, after doing this in 2014, where apart from Hangzhou, they also traveled to Taipei.
Jabari Parker, before boarding a plane to travel to China / Twitter: @Fcbbasket
Apart from various preparation sessions, the Barça team will play the first two games of the preseason. Next Sunday at 1, at 1:30 pm (CET), Joan Peñarroya’s team will face the Beijing ducks, while one day, at 1:00 pm (CET), they will play against Basketball Girona, a duel that will be repeated days later in Tarragona, in the first round of the Catalan League.
The two friends are attached to Qianjiang Century City International Basketball Summit 2024, a tournament where the host team is also there, a Zhejiang Lions which Barça will not face.
“We’ve been training for a week and it’s very early, but in these two games we will see where we are. We have to improve every day,” he explained. Alex Abrines about the Chinese stage, while Justin Anderson He also appreciated the trip to Asian countries positively: “It helps us prepare for the season, we are ready to play.”