Internationals: Leo And Dani Face-off!

Barca coach Pep Guardiola is only left with three fit players (Valdes, Pinto, Pedro) and three injured ones (Iniesta, Marquez, Maxwell) to carry on with training, as the rest of the lads are off to join their national teams, for this week's World Cup qualifers:

- The biggest match is set to be the clash of giants when Argentina take on Brazil in Rosario, which happens to be the hometown of Lionel Messi. Leo will play with his country, Argentina, and he'll be facing Barca teammate Dani Alves, who has joined up with Brazil. The match will be on September 5; and afterwards both teams will play other matches on September 9, as Brazil face Chile and Argentina face Paraguay.

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- Xavi, Busquets, Pique and Puyol will all be participating with Spain against Belgium (September 5) and Estonia (September 9).

- Ibrahimovic is called up to Sweden to play against Hungary (September 5) and Malta (September 9); however reports are that he may have picked up a knee injury during the Gijon match, and that Barca medics have contacted those of the Swedish NT so they can examine him.

- Chygrynskiy returns to Ukraine, where he'll join his national side to take on Andorra (September 5) and Belarus (September 9).

- Thierry Henry and Eric Abidal join their home country France as they face Romania (September 5) and Serbia (September 9).

- Keita plays with his team, Mali, against Benin (September 6) while Yaya Toure with Ivory Coast will play Burkina Faso (September 5).

- While the aforementioned matches are all WC qualifiers, Bojan, Jeffren and Fontas will all be playing European qualifers with the U-21 Spanish national team, facing Poland (September 4) and Liechtenstein (September 7).