Barcelona's pre-season tour will be in Asia next summer

Barcelona's pre-season tour will be in Asia next summer

Asia disfrutará del Barça
Asia disfrutará del Barça | sport

Club spokesman Josep Vives announced it on Tuesday afternoon

FC Barcelona will have pre-season in Asia. That is what spokesman Josep Vives said on Tuesday. They want to keep growing on a continent that holds 60 percent of the world's population.

The tour will take place in China and Japan, instead of in the United States like last season.

Vives said: "Barcelona will go back to having an Asian tour thinking about a strategic plan. We have to remember that we work with 11 global partners from the Asian market and we have 15 schools in the region. I think that's worth highlighting, that we know where the tour will be so far in advance."

Vives said the tour has been decided without yet knowing the opponents who Barcelona will face.