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MANCHESTER CITY TO FACE BARCELONA IN CHARITY MID-SEASON FRIENDLY

MANCHESTER CITY TO FACE BARCELONA IN CHARITY MID-SEASON FRIENDLY
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Wayne Lumbasi

FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta, Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola and retired footballer and Coach Juan Carlos Unzue presented on Monday a friendly game that will be played between the two clubs at Camp Nou on August 24, more than two weeks after the 22/23 Premier League season starts.

The match is dubbed ‘A game for a greater cause.’ It will be held for the former Barcelona coach and player Juan Carlos Unzue, who suffers with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).The earnings will fund research and investigation to find a cure to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a non-curable disease with which Juan Carlos Unzue was diagnosed with in 2020.

Unzue is understood to have a close relationship with Guardiola, who he briefly played alongside at Barcelona before working under him as a goalkeeper coach with the Catalan giants between 2008 and 2010. The clash was originally scheduled for last year, but was postponed due to the pandemic and attendance restrictions. Both clubs hope for a capacity crowd in order to raise more funds for the charity.

It is unlikely Guardiola will risk any of City’s key players for the mid-season friendly match, but it will represent the 51-year-old’s first return to the Nou Camp since October 2016, when the Blues succumbed to a demoralising 4-0 defeat.

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Barcelona’s President Joan Laporta (L), Barcelona’s former goalkeeper Juan Carlos Unzue (C) suffering from ALS, a progressive neurogenerative disease, and Manchester City’s Spanish manager Pep Guardiola (R) pose during the presentation of friendly match FC Barcelona v Manchester City at Camp Nou stadium, in Barcelona, on June 20, 2022. – The friendly match will be held as a benefit event for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Foundation in Barcelona, on August 24, 2022. (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP) (Photo by LLUIS GENE/AFP via Getty Images)