FC Barcelona arrived in Tokyo to participate in the Club World Cup in Japan, where he was greeted by five hundred Japanese fans before going to their place of concentration to rest and prepare for the game Thursday.
The plane he was traveling in the blaugrana expedition, from Barcelona, landed at Tokyo's Narita airport at 8:50 local time today (23.50 GMT Sunday) after about 13 hours of flight and 40 minutes late.
Some 530 people received the Catalans with cheers, camera flashes and requests for autographs, and some of them had even spent the night at the airport to see close to their idols, according to a spokesman for the airport said the newspaper "Sports Nippon" .
Messi, Luis Suarez and the injured Neymar caught the attention of Japanese fans, massed behind a large security cordon.
The Catalan delegation, composed of 23 players plus coaches and managers, were then directed to their places of concentration.
The team and the coaching staff will stay in the city of Yokohama (south of Tokyo), where this afternoon held its first training in Japanese land Mitsuzawa Stadium, while the Japanese capital directive will stay.
FC Barcelona will play the Club World Cup semifinal on Thursday against Guangzhou Evergrande Chinese in the International Stadium Yokohama, at 19.30 local time (10.30 GMT).
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