Peruvian national team: what is known about the Qatar plan and the friendly in Barcelona

The Qatar project must be perfect to return to the elite of world football and Videna is polishing the preparation for the peruvian national team for the World Cup repechage. As Ricardo Gareca had already announced, the preparation will be in Barcelona and then travel to Doha to play the playoff, which will be played on June 13 between the winner of the duel between Australia and the United Arab Emirates (June 7).

That will be the concentration center of the national team, since in principle they will seek to adapt to the time change – Europe is 7 hours away and Doha is 8 – so as not to have problems with that when they have to travel to the Middle East. However, the issue of tickets and stay is not yet defined.

Meanwhile, on the subject of heat, although in this part of the world training is carried out at night when the sun does not shine directly, although the heat is still intense.

Peru is scheduled to travel to Barcelona at the end of May to make their camp there and play a friendly, whose rival must be defined in the coming days. In the last hours it was rumored that Morocco could be the rival, although .

What does seem definitive is that the friendly that is scheduled will be at the RCDE Stadium, the home of Espanyol, the second most important club in Barcelona behind the Blaugrana.

Facing Morocco is convenient because in case they qualify for the World Cup, an African rival like Tunisia awaits in Group D. Meanwhile, the Moroccans are preparing for the World Cup where they will face Belgium, Canada and Croatia.

As Gareca himself said in the press conference he had during the week, it is his technical command who defines the work plan and he adapts to what is established. “We will travel to Doha when Néstor (Bonillo) says so,” he declared at the time.

The first part of the Argentine League Cup ends on May 8 and it will depend on how far Boca progresses to know if Carlos Zambrano and Luis Advíncula can be counted on from the beginning.

The same happens with Liga MX, whose regular stage ends on May 1. Then the playoffs will determine the availability of the players called from Mexico, such as Luis Abram, Santiago Ormeño, Pedro Aquino, among others. Meanwhile, with the MLS players, permission would have to be negotiated with their clubs in order to have them in advance, since the tournament will be active in June. If not, they can only be counted on in the time that the FIFA date establishes.