Barcelona will be playing a friendly against Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa today. This trip is sandwiched in between two La Liga games for the Catalans.
Barça have already won La Liga, of course, but that’s still weird. Surely there must be some handsome payment for them to make such a long trip to play a friendly. Sundowns are a big team not just in the South African context, but in the context of the whole continent. But it’s not normal to make this long trip to Africa in between two league games just for a friendly.