After being received in the early morning at Narita Airport, outside Tokyo, for about a hundred enthusiastic fans Nipponese with the colors of the team, Barca took the morning train to train and attend two official FIFA commitments.
Early in the 27 players and the coach, Josep Guardiola, attended the event photo session and a technical talk Instructor FIFA referees, Steve Bennett, with whom they talked and discussed videos on the rules of the tournament .
At noon, Barcelona went to training camp Yokohama Marinos local team, in which he waited nearly a hundred international media and many fans who were at the gates, and onlookers who peered out from the surrounding buildings.
Guardiola scheduled a very gentle workout for about an hour in which the players performed balloon stretching, rounds, races and a talk with the coaching staff in a warm and sunny winter morning.
The training served to light the players begin their acclimatization to the time change in Japan (eight hours ahead of Spain) and to recover physically from the long journey and the meeting demanding that played on Saturday against Real Madrid.
The Training Center Yokohama Marinos, which already has a store of FC Barcelona, Barca offered to issue a quarter hour of training open to media, while the rest of the exercises were performed at door closed.
Today is the first step in the preparation of the FC Barcelona play in Japan before, on Thursday, one of the Club World Cup semi-final against Qatar’s Al Sadd, who yesterday broke Tunisian Esperance in the quarter-finals 2-1
