{"id":116064,"date":"2026-08-16T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/116064\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:31:29","slug":"fc-basel-v-fc-barcelona-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/116064\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Basel v FC Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, FC Barcelona face FC Basel in their third preseason fixture. After the 2-2 draw in Birmingham and the triangular tournament in Udine, featuring two 45-minute games, Hansi Flick\u2019s side travel to Switzerland for a friendly against at 4.30pm CEST start at St. Jakob-Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.com\/en\/football\/first-team\/news\/4557103\/when-and-where-to-watch-fc-basel-v-fc-barcelona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live on Bar\u00e7a Play and the club\u2019s YouTube channel in Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget that for this and all other games, we will also be offering live text in our match center.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be the final friendly before the Estrella Damm Gamper Fest, when the team will be presented to the fans.<\/p>\n<p>Basel already into the league<\/p>\n<p>The home side have more match practice under their belts than the visitors, having already played three league games, as well as four friendlies beforehand, the most recent against Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss side have won 21 league titles and 14 cups. Their most recent league title came two seasons ago, ending a drought of almost 10 years. The return of captain and star player Xherdan Shaqiri, who registered 43 goal contributions, was key to lifting the long-awaited trophy. Now 34, Shaqiri remains their standout player.<\/p>\n<p>On the bench is a young coach well known for his playing career in European football: Stephan Lichtsteiner. The 42-year-old Swiss coach, who spent more than seven seasons as at Juventus, has been in charge of Basel since January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s first visit in 18 years to the city that sits on the borders of Germany and France, one that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.com\/en\/football\/first-team\/news\/4557486\/basel-a-city-of-great-european-memories-for-barca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brings back all kinds of memories<\/a> for older fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Near-full squad<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup semi-finalists and finalists returned from their holidays this week. With new arrival Anthony Gordon, Frenchman Jules Kound\u00e9 and five of the seven Spanish internationals now back, Hansi Flick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.com\/en\/football\/first-team\/news\/4559983\/the-squad-for-fc-basel-v-barca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has most of his squad available<\/a> for the trip to Basel and to prepare for the start of official competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Sunday, FC Barcelona face FC Basel in their third preseason fixture. After the 2-2 draw in Birmingham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,894],"class_list":["post-116064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basel","tag-basel","tag-text"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117105202636012802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}