Barcelona faces Chapecoence at Joan Gamper Trophy

CAIRO – 7 August 2017 – FC Barcelona will face Brazilian team Chapecoence, which suffered last year from a tragic plane crash accident at Camp Nou at 8:30 p.m. in the Joan Gamper Trophy.

The Joan Gamper Trophy is a friendly football match hosted by Barcelona at Barcelona’s Camp Nou Stadium every year in August before the beginning of the Spanish Liga.
The trophy is named in honor for Joan Gamper, who was a player, a founding member and president of the club. The trophy was held for the first time in 1966 by Enric Llaudet, who was president of the club between 1961 and 1968.

Barcelona invited to this year’s event Chapecoence to help pay tribute to the 71 players and staff members who died in the plane crash on November 28, 2016 when the team was travelling to participate in Copa Sudamericana’s final in Colombia. The Spanish team invited Chapecoence to help the team to rebuild institutionally and recover to the competitive level it had before the tragedy, as all the money from sold tickets will go to the Brazilian team.