After waking up from his slumber, Alex was engaged in a closed door online meeting with Marotta, Edwards and Futre whom were all in Barcelona and not with the team in America due to their engagements back at the club, the meeting was on the proposal of Nike and potential signings of the female team with the team needing reinforcements in all departments, apart from the goal keeping department which Sandra Panos has been dominating for a while with Cata Cul being her back up when need be.
"In the case of our proposed partnership with Nike, I believe you all know what the committee submitted, so I won't go into much details but I find it intriguing being that Nike would have access to all players data and preferences of Fc Barcelona players and Fc Barcelona would recieve favorable worldwide marketing initiatives, benefit from co invented products sold through Nike official pages and shops around the globe, Nike would give preference to Barca players when it comes to access to training facilities around the globe and every Barca player is to be an official ambassador of Nike even if he or she is signed to other Apparel companies", said Alex.
I'm thrilled to approve this deal and I'll have to push you guys (Marotta and Edwards) to make a decision and get the contract up and running and I've approved Marotta to sign the contract on my behalf. After having that settled Alex was engaged with Edwards and Futre who joined the conference call due to the matter of Youth team coach still being idle "the board under my esteemed leadership has decided to sign Frank Vogel of Hertha Berlin as the new head coach of the b team and he'll be assisted by Carles Puyol and Javi Martinez, the b team coach's contract should be signed immediately and the board would allocate 5 million to the head coach for signings and contract renewals of players he'll like to keep and he's expected to promote atleast 5 players yearly from the subsidiaries.
The players were preparing to play Benfica in the first official game in the States while Alex and board members are busy discussing the possible signings for the Female first team, where the committee proposed the signing of Asisat Oshoala, Graham Hansen, Walsh, Oberdorf and Ellie Carpenter, with all this signing the committee believe the Female teams strength has increased by leaps and bounds. Alex has allocated €20m euros to sign the targets and atleast improve the female teams capacity through incorporating star players and world class individuals.
The first game in America between Fc Barcelona and Benfica is to be played at the Camping World Stadium Orlando, Florida. The game is scheduled to kick-off in approximately 5hrs and the team is heading to the stadium for the fixture, Alex is pumped to see the team of his life play and watch them live as the president of the club, which was just a fantasy of his in his past life that has been achieved in this life.
The starting line up is Stegen, Grimaldo, Dest, Gvardiol and Araujo in defence while the midfield was of Dejong and Locatelli as holding midfielders, while the forwards are Goncalves, Pedri, Messi and Alvarez in attack. Benfica started the game off on a high note with 5 shots(3 on target/2 off), the first goal of the game came after a through ball from pedri to Goncalves from a Barca rapid counter attack, Goncalves crossed the ball to the edge of the 18 yard area where Messi wal lurking, Messi shot on the volley which ended up into the far left corner of the post.
The game ended with Barca winning by a goal margin. It was an intense game where barca showed how compact the coaching teams tactics is with the two midfielders in the two holding positions intersecting and sharing duty between themselves, with lionel Messi being very close to the happenings in the midfield abd having the instrumental role of orchestrating the attack.
The next game of Barcelona would be an intense one for the team and is the second game of the team in america, while the male side was enjoying their life in america, the female side was brimming with new blood.