Barça players support the fight against COVID-19

Barça players support the fight against COVID-19

The FC Barcelona Players Association has joined forces to help during the pandemic in the Barcelona area. The players’ initiatives are part of the COVID-19 response from Barça Foundation and FC Barcelona.

Unfortunately, six members of Agrupació de Jugadors del FC Barcelona (AJFCB), were suffering from COVID-19. Luckily, there were the other 638 members who cared for others by calling and assisting them if possible. Barça hero and until 2018 methodology director, Joan Vilà i Bosch has spent one month hospitalised but was luckily able to celebrate his 66th birthday at home.

The association has kept their work up by hosting online educational courses and publishing entertaining videos, such as live calls with the old legends and training videos, especially for elderly people. AJFCB created a video to say thank you to all children for their attituted during the confinement, where some Barça former players appeared, as Xavi, Iniesta, Belleti, Luis Enrique and Laura Ràfols.

The former Barça players have also created a video to thank the medical staff of the Clínic Hospital, which included also some of its members.

“We want to remember the team spirit that we have felt as footballers and to convey that to the health workers and the patient so that they know they are not alone. The feeling of loneliness and despair of those hospitalised, isolated, the fear that they will not be able to say goodbye to their loved ones is terrible,” said Ramon Alfonseda, president of AJFCB. “The history of Barça has always been aligned and sensible to society. The motto ‘more than a club’ had a meaning when it was born, but now it has another, more linked to the values that it promotes,” he added.