The Weekly Pick: Gerard Pique

Gerard Pique's baring of his sizzling abs is not why he is our weekly pick; although we can probably all agree that that would be reason enough. The picture is from last season anyway; no, he's done something else this week that's making us melt for him...

Geri was one of the few players given leave to stay away on vacation until the twenty-seventh; however he cut his holiday short and returned from the Maldives to Barcelona last Monday!

And even though the rest of the team are off in London, and Geri won't be able to join them there, he is training by himself in Barcelona, at the Ciudad Deportiva de Sant Joan Despí. That's commitment if we ever saw it! We're so proud and pleased with him.

He'll be taking his physical along with Dani, Puyol, Iniesta, Xavi and Busquets when they return, after which they'll join up with the rest of the team.

In unrelated but relevant news: Leo Messi is super excited about Barca's preseason. Not only did he come back to join the team on their London tour a week early, but he was the first one to jump onto the field yesterday for training, so eager to get to work. These little gestures from the boys mean the world, we just love them for this kind of thing.