Paris Saint-Germain v FC Barcelona: Match build-up minute-by-minute 13.57. The game is being televised live in over 100 countries. There are 94 TV and radio stations attending, 126 press reporters and 60 photographers. No fewer than 15 TV channels have passes to access the pitch for post-match interviews, and around 450 media professionals will be working to inform the world of what happens tonight. 13.30. The players and the rest of the staff are heading for lunch in their Paris hotel. 13.00. The official lunch for PSG and FC Barcelona directors has started. The Catalan club is being represented, among others, by president Josep Maria Bartomeu, vice presidents Carles Vilarrubí, Jordi Cardoner and Manel Arroyo and director Jordi Moix. FCB Nasser Al-Khelaifi will also attend. 11.53. The first team trained at the Camp Nou on Monday evening and you can watch what happened in this exclusive video. 11.45. They’re getting things ready in the Paris Saint-Germain stadium for kick-off in nine hours’ time. 11.06. There will be 1,100 FC Barcelona supporters at the Parc des Princes. There are official FCB supporters clubs arriving from as far afield as London, Slovenia, Lombardy, Belgium and Poland. 10.30. As is traditional for Champions League matches, there’s a meeting going on between representatives from the two clubs, UEFA, the match officials and the security services to finalise details for the game. They agreed that the pitch will be watered three times – before and after the warm-up and at half-time 10.30. The players have had breakfast in the Hotel Pullman La Defense in the French capital. #Aam
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:26:27 +0000