Guardiola directs his first training at the club with the novelty of Messi and brings together about 3,000 fans

Josep Guardiola went this afternoon their first training at the helm of the first team of FC Barcelona, a meeting open to the public that brought together some 3,000 fans at the Miniestadi and that was the main novelty presence of Argentine striker Messi, newcomer today his country and he retired rather than the other players.

Messi advanced his return a few days, as originally cited for Saturday, along with other players (Samuel Eto'o, Dani Alves and Seydou Keita), which also disputed parties with their selections at the end of the last campaign, and participated normally in Barca the first training under the direction of Guardiola.

The Argentine landed in Barcelona in the morning, went through the Camp Nou and evening dress was already short train Champions League with Barca, who expects the FIF would allow it to retain the player.

The emergence of Messi, who was among the players ovation by the fans next to the couple canterano Bojan Krkic was the great novelty of the first training of 'Guardiola was', involving a total of 21 players, of whom 15 are part of the first team and six other youths are the subsidiary.

He also stressed the with the rest of the staff club. On Saturday, is subject to the medical evidence that most of his companions carried out on Monday on the day prior to the first sessions of fieldwork.

In the coming days, moreover, Barcelona and Messi should resolve the conflict emerged following the player's willingness to go to the Olympic Games in Beijing, which has been convened by the selection argentina and to prevent the play previous round of the presence of two of Barca reinforcements for the new campaign, Martin Caceres defenses and Gerard Pique. In training, after a first part focuses on physical preparation, Guardiola ordered after the first exercises with the ball club 2008/09 and ended the session with the dispute of a game.