Summer holidays over, Albert Ferrer’s Barça Legends team will travel to Mexico to take on a Tigres Leyendas team in the city of Monterrey. The game will be on 31 August, kick off 6pm local time (2am CEST the following day) in the Estadio Universitario, known as ‘El Volcán’, which holds 42,000 fans. For the game players such as Andrés Iniesta, David Villa and Rafa Márquez will be available, the latter now assistant coach to a Mexican national side who recently claimed the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The rest of the Barça squad for the game against the Mexican legends side will be named in the coming weeks. Tigres are one of the most famous clubs in Mexico and have won the league title on eight occasions, most recently in 2023. The Leyendas side will contain former Tigres players Lucas Lobos, Jesús Dueñas, Rafael Sobis, Juninho, Hugo Ayala, Israel Jiménez and Egidio Arévalo.
Who are the Barça Legends
Barça Legends is a Club-managed programme that was created in 2016 to integrate former Barça players into a permanent professional project with the Club to help spread the Barça brand and present the Club’s values around the world. Over 80 players have participated in at least one match since Barça Legends began.