Hansi Flick is set to begin his preseason training at FC Barcelona on this coming Monday, 13th July, and would return to Ciutat Esportiva today, on Thursday, a few days before welcoming his players back.
As things stand, several Blaugrana players are still competing in the World Cup with their respective teams. Eight of these players are in the Spanish team, one in France, and one in England. Meanwhile, several others, including the likes of Ronald Araujo, Hamza Abdelkarim, Raphinha, and Frenkie de Jong, have already seen their World Cup campaigns end, and are currently enjoying their vacations.
As a result, the German would have only 8 first-team players available for the start of the preseason training, including Wojciech Szczesny, Gerard Martín, Andreas Christensen, Alejandro Balde, Héctor Fort, Marc Bernal, Marc Casadó, and Roony Bardghji. Fermin Lopez, who has already returned to the Ciutat Esportiva, is still recovering from his injury, while the future of Marc-Andre ter Stegen is yet to be resolved.
In such a context, [Mundo Deportivo](https://www.mundodeportivo.com/futbol/fc-barcelona/20260709/1004204449/minimo-10-canteranos-iniciaran-pretemporada-primer-equipo.html) notes that Hansi Flick might have to call-up up to 10 youth and reserve team players for the start of the preseason training to fill his ranks. The players most likely to get the call-up include: Iker Rodríguez, Baba Kouruma, Ebrima Tunkara, Orien Goren from the youth teams, and Álex González, Shane Kluivert, Xavi Espart, Tommy Marqués, Toni Fernández, Jofre Torrents, Landry Farré, Álvaro Cortés, and Óscar Gistau from the reserve team.
[Hamza Abdelkarim is also one of the players expected to train with the first team](https://barcanewsnetwork.com/hansi-flick-has-role-in-mind-for-barcelona-summer-signing-hamza-abdelkarim/), but he is set to spend some days on vacations after having seen his Egyptian national team getting eliminated from the World Cup on Tuesday.
Hopefully, the youngsters who are called up by Hansi Flick would take full advantage of this preseason training camp and would be able to remain in his plans for the upcoming season at Barcelona as well.