Catalonia coach Pere Gratacós has announced his squad of 19 players for the match between Catalonia and Euskadi (Basque country) on Sunday, October 8, at Camp Nou. The coach called up Barça's Valdés, Jorquera and Oleguer for the encounter.


The Catalan squad against Euskadi (Basque country):


FC Barcelona: Valdés, Jorquera and Oleguer
RCD Espanyol: Corominas, Moisés Hurtado and Joanthan Soriano

Valencia CF: Curro Torres
Deportivo: Sergio, Lopo and Verdú

Zaragoza: Sergio García
Getafe: Belenguer

Ajax: Roger
Monaco: Gerard

Newcastle: Luque
Mallorca: Fernando Navarro and Jordi López

Nàstic: Antoni Pinilla and Oscar López


The Basques team have beaten Catalonia in most of the matches played so far: winning six, drawing once and losing just the once.
The first ever Euskadi-Catalunya encounter was played in 1914, but there is no record of the result!


But coach Pere Gratacós is confident for the upcoming match on Sunday evening:

We have a competitive team, but against Euskadi, we have a poor record until now. Let's see if we can change things.

After Doctor Jordi Ardèvol has stepped down as manager of the FC Barcelona Medical department a few days ago, doctor Ramon Canal has been appointed as the new head of FC Barcelona's medical services. The appointment is part of the restructuring process to continue the improvement of this fundamental area for the 2006-07 season.


45 year old Dr. Ramon Canal graduated in medicine from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1985) and also has postgraduate qualifications in Health administration from the ESADE Business School (1986) and Barcelona University (1987). He has held a number of important positions in hospitals throughout Catalonia and from 2003 to 2006 was a senior civil servant in the Generalitat de Catalunya.

www.fcbarcelonablog.com</font> wishes Arsenal FC good luck against the "Peseteros" of Real Madrid at The Bernabeu. We hope that The Gunners get a result and win the match tonight. We would love to see Thierry Henry tearing up the net a few times.

Tonight, all Barça fans around the world will be Gooners!!! FC Barcelona fans always want The Merengues to lose, even when they play cards just for fun and tonight will be no exception.


Note to Arsenal Fans:
Florentino Perez's "Non-Galacticos" players are using all their dirty tactics to win the match. Therefore they are spreading rumours that they want your coach, Wenger and players like Reyes, Henry and Cesc to join Real Madrid next season.


Come on Florentino! Will you never give up? Just think of your metrosexual players and leave us all alone! Whatever you do you will never get the heart of the people!

Today all Catalonia and the Culés around the world will be on Arsenal´s side! We hope we can read some positive news tomorrow on Arsedup!