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11:51 AM – Friday, April 10, 2015

Manifest Blaugrana asks for voting changes in the Barcelona elections

A call to improve the members' participation in the upcoming elections

11:36 AM – Friday, April 10, 2015

‘Don’t go, Xavi and Dani,’ Mascherano pleads

The Argentinian player could not imagine a Barcelona without the two, and asks them to remain at the club.

4:47 PM – Thursday, April 9, 2015

Dani Alves rejects the club's offer for a new contract

The saga continues as the final months of his contract approach.

8:48 PM – Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Bravo closes in on Courtois' record

Barça's "official" goalie for La Liga has finished with a clean sheet in more than half the games, a feature Thibaut Courtois achieved the last two seasons.

7:01 PM – Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Barça vest up to prevent injuries

Barcelona players are using GPS technology in order to prevent last seasons’ plague of injuries, and so far the results have been positive.

Credit: Fernando Zueras/El Pais

Barça vest up to prevent injuries

The use of monitoring equipment is a constant in trainings

According to Spanish newspaper El País, since Luis Enrique and Rafael Pol’s arrival this season, they have done away with excuses for not wearing GPS-equipped vests and required all the players to use these vests in training sessions.

The technology in the vests warns about injury risks by quantifying muscular fatigue values. This allows the technical staff to choose the fittest starting line-up, with the end in mind to be in the best physical shape in the last parts of the season.

The GPS controls variables such as speed, distance, accelerations and decelerations, impacts, and sprints. “These accelerations and sprints are the most important values to gauge the risk of injury,” a representative from the club said. It also provides a heat map to show where and how far the players are running.

Just last season, Barcelona had 44 muscular injuries, with nine of those muscular tears. Fifteen of these muscular injuries are located in the femoral biceps. So far this season the team has endured 20 muscular injuries, with four muscular tears and just one injury in the femoral biceps.

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Source: El País