The Argentine striker Leo Messi will have four more days of Christmas vacation the rest of the staff
Pep Guardiola has given rest to the January 2, while the rest of the team, but Dani Alves (31 December), will train on the 29th.
As reported by the Catalan club, the team returned to training on 29 December (19 hours) to prepare the match against Osasuna butler, who will be the first for the year.
Are then listed all the players in the squad with the exception of Messi and Alves. Guardiola has allowed Argentina´s prolonged stay few days in Argentina and the striker is called up for training on January 2.
Guardiola has also given permission to Dani Alves to return to training two days later, in his case on 31 December. The Brazilian, despite being on vacation, participated in the team`s final training session before the match to the Hospitalet butler.
In any case, to be seen whether the Argentina star rushes your holidays or return to the discipline of the team before time, as has happened in the past.
In the first practice of the year will be absent Andres Iniesta, who was injured during the encounter with the Hospitalet butler, suffering a break in the middle third of the femoral biceps of the left leg and will be fifteen days low.
Iniesta should recover during the holidays and will be lost, for sure, the first leg of the knockout Cup final against Osasuna and, quite possibly the league match against Espanyol Cornella-El Prat.
The other two injured players, both of long duration, are Ibrahim Afellay and David Villa. The Dutch may be available from March, while Villa, operated from a broken left tibia, is four to five months out.
Asturian striker could leave the clinic where it is joined from Barcelona last weekend in the coming hours.