The most popular mode in the FIFA franchise, FIFA Ultimate Team™ is at the center of the free-to-play mobile experience this season. With more than 80 per cent of FIFA 14 mobile fans playing FIFA Ultimate Team or Matches of the Week, the team is focused on combining innovative gameplay while enhancing the managerial experience of FIFA 15 Ultimate Team Mobile. To do that this season, the team is delivering two modes on mobile - FIFA Ultimate Team and Matches of the Week – and bringing new ways to play the game – Quick Simulation, Classic or Casual Controls, and new controller support.

One of the most requested mobile features from last season, Quick Simulation makes its debut on FIFA 15 Ultimate Team, giving you complete control of your squad while a match plays out quickly on your tablet or phone. You are able to control the mentality, effort, and approach of your entire team in a managerial experience during a Quick Simulation match. It puts you in the manager’s seat and gives you an aerial view of the pitch so you can see player trends and adjust on the fly.

This season, you can choose from Casual or Classic Controls - with all new through-ball and tactical dribbling options. Through ball will allow you to send your teammates through on goal with a tap of a button or tap twice on the screen to activate Tactical Dribbling - give your players greater control on the ball.

This Thursday, the FCBotiga Megastore has officially put the 2014/15 season's third kit on sale. Fans are finally able to visit the shop and buy the bright yellow shirt, shorts, and socks.

Just outside the shop the new kit is proudly displayed and declared "made to shine," giving a bright welcome to everyone coming in through the entrance facing the Camp Nou.

Kit to debut versus PSG

The third kit has gone on sale just a few days before it's official unveiling. Luis Enrique's squad will wear it for the first time on September 30 for their Champions League match versus PSG in Paris.

The two-tone bright yellow kit is similar to the team's 2005 away kit. Among the details the shirt has a collar and three buttons, while right sleeve has a small Catalan flag.

This kit completes the 2014/15 season's official collection which also includes the home kit, with the traditional red and blue colours, and the away kit, this season in bright crimson. The fourth kit is in the colours of the Catalan flag. All kits can be purchased in any official FC Barcelona shop or online at nike.com/FCB.

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The match played between the Barça B team and the Indonesia under-19 team this past Wednesday was one of the most successful events to have been broadcast live in recent months on FC Barcelona’s official website. Between the live streaming of the match from the Ciutat Esportiva and the YouTube video on the Club's official channel the match has been seen more than 220,000 times with a maximum audience of 37,000 people watching at the same time.

Luis Suarez’s second appearance for Barça and Thomas Vermaelen's first gave the friendly, just one of several stops on the Indonesian team's European tour, an unexpected place on the global stage.

Even after the conclusion of the match there were more than 90,000 combined visits on YouTube and Dailymotion for those eager to see the highlights of the match.

Massive following in Indonesia

The match also received an enormous following on FC Barcelona's official outlets in Indonesia. Although the match was broadcast live in prime time on SCTV, the Club's Indonesian website (www.fcbarcelona.co.id) had an unprecedented amount of traffic with seven times more visitors than normal.

The match was also massively followed via a minute to minute Twitter feed on the Club's official Indonesian Twitter account, @fcbarcelona_id, where followers could glimpse exclusive match photos throughout the game. The number of followers there doubled compared to a normal day.

Going even further, LINE, the club's official instant message platform in Indonesia, has also seen a twofold increase in the number of users thanks to this week's special content. The most popular topics have been the visit by the Indonesian players to the Camp Nou Experience and the exclusive interview of team captain Evan Dimas, which received a massive audience.

Indonesia has one of the largest blocs in the world of FC Barcelona supporters following the Club through social networks. On Facebook, Indonesia is ranked first in number of fans with more than 7 million.

EA SPORTS™ FIFA 15 is available in retail stores now worldwide, and as a digital download on Origin™. More than 5.5 million* fans worldwide have already played the FIFA 15 demo. To celebrate, download your special FC Barcelona cover!  Club covers are available for all console formats plus Facebook and Twitter backgrounds, mobile and tablet wallpapers.

FIFA 15 brings football to life in stunning visual detail so fans can experience the emotion and intensity of football like never before.

David Rutter, Vice President and General Manager of EA SPORTS FIFA said, “We believe we have built a game in FIFA 15 that delivers the most immersive and responsive gameplay experience ever in the FIFA franchise, and we can’t wait for the millions of fans to start their season and experience all of the innovations.”

To see a list of new features and modes including Match Day Live, Agility & Control, Barclays Premier League Authenticity, and Next Gen Goalkeepers please visit: http://easports.com/fifa/features. To view a series of videos on new features please visit: http://youtube.com/easportsfifa.     

EA SPORTS FIFA 15 is available today on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PC. A version of FIFA 15 will also release on the Wii™, Nintendo 3DS™, and PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system. Not all game features are available on all gaming platforms.

For more information about EA SPORTS FIFA 15 visit www.easports.com/uk/fifa or join the EA SPORTS community at http://www.facebook.com/easportsfifa. Follow us on Twitter @easportsfifa and use the hashtag #FIFA15.

Autumn has arrived and the FCBotiga Megastore at the Camp Nou is fully loaded with novelties. The brand new two-tone bright yellow third kit for FC Barcelona's 2014/15 season, as well as the new boot collection, training gear, and a new line of fashionable casual wear are on sale now.

And to celebrate it, the Megastore is offering exclusive promotions for FC Barcelona members on September 27 and 28: for this weekend only, all members who come to shop at the Camp Nou FCBotiga will enjoy an extra discount of 20% on top of the normal 5% member discount on all purchases. The only requirement is that you present your member identification card at the moment of purchase.

The store is open on Saturday from 10.00 AM CET until 10.00 PM CET, and on Sunday from 10.00 AM CET until 8.30 PM CET. The Megastore at the Camp Nou offers a unique shopping experience that is perfect for all FC Barcelona supporters in a beautiful three-story shop where you can find the best collection of official FC Barcelona and Nike Football products, clothing, footwear, and accessories.

FC Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu, who is in Paris for Barça’s game on Tuesday night with PSG, visited the L’Équipe Group offices today.

Part of the Amaury organisation, the publisher not only issues the printed and online versions of L’Équipe, as well as running its own TV channel, but also prints magazines such as L’Équipe Magazine and France Football.

Bartomeu, who was joined by vice-president Jordi Cardoner, was welcomed by the director general of the group, François Morinière, the director of France Football and also the football contents of L’Équipe, Gérard Ejnès, the director of L’Équipe newspaper, Fabrice Jouhaud, and his assistant, Elie Barth.

The FCB president gave an interview for the daily while he was there and then he and Cardoner were shown around the offices, and posed for photographs before another interview, this time broadcast live on L’Équipe TV.

One of the happiest moments of the day was when Bartomeu was pictured next to the an image of the cover of L’Equipe used the day after Andres Iniesta scored his famous last-second winner against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the 2009 Champions League semi-final.

[[DES_1]]The Futbol Club Barcelona Board of Directors, at its meeting of September 15, 2014, and in accordance with article 27 of the Statutes, agreed to call an Ordinary General Assembly to be held in the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, located at Avinguda Diagonal, 661-671, Barcelona, next October 18, 2014, at 11.30 AM CET for the first session and 12.00 PM CET for the second session, with the following

AGENDA

1. President’s report.
2. Liquidation of the financial year corresponding to the 2013/2014 sports season.
3. Budget for the financial year corresponding to the 2014/2015 sports season.
4. Ratification, if required, of the member of the Board of Directors appointed in accordance with article 35.1 of the Statutes.
5. Ratification, if required, of the Members Ombudsman appointed in accordance with article 57.2 of the Statutes.
6. Proposals by members in accordance with article 20.11 of the Statutes.
7. Members Ombudsman’s report.
8. Open floor.

The Board of Directors has also agreed to call on the presence of a notary at the General Assembly to draft minutes of the agreements reached at the same and the comments made by those attending.

All delegate members are advised that as it is foreseeable that the session will extend into the late afternoon, there are plans for the session to be suspended between 2.00 PM CET and 3.00 PM CET is order for the delegates to obtain refreshments, after which the session shall resume.

Barcelona, 29 September 2014

Secretary to the Board of Directors
Antoni Freixa i Martín

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FC Barcelona has reached a sponsorship agreement with Gillette that makes the brand of men's personal care products, FC Barcelona’s Official Shaver in Latin America until 2017. The agreement forms part of the Club’s on-going project to form partnerships with the world’s leading brands.

The three-year deal was announced this Thursday in the Sala Roma at the Camp Nou at a press conference attended by FCB first team player and world ambassador for Gillette, Lionel Messi, the director general of FC Barcelona, Antoni Rossich, and the CEO for Gillette in Latin America, Alexandra Vegas.

The deal includes the launch of a limited edition of shavers that is already on the market, showing off the Barça colours and passion and which is associated to the following products: Mach3, Prestobarba3, cartridges and pre-shave products. As well as the brand association agreement, the deal also includes other aspects such as organising a soccer clinic with FCBEscola.

The alliance between FC Barcelona and Gillette honours something both brands have in common: precision. So, the main feature of the campaign is a video being distributed on social networks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-K2aK-u9Q) that Gillette created to celebrate the partnership. The campaign plays with the relation between the word ‘precision, which is Latin in origin, and certain Latin American footballers, who are renowned masters of precision on the pitch.

Recent market analysis has revealed that FC Barcelona has some 70 million supporters in Latin America. Only China has a larger market than Mexico, with 24 million fans, and Brazil, with 20 million.

Gillette, high precision technology

For more than 110 years, Gillette has provided millions of men all around the world with high precision technology and products of unrivalled quality. From shaving and personal hygiene to skin care and deodorants, Gillette offers a wide range of products including electric shavers and pre-shave, skincare and aftershave products, as well as anti-perspirants, deodorants and body soaps.

FC Barcelona has signed a new sponsorship agreement with Apamanshop, making the real estate agency chain, which has 1,066 offices, a Regional Sponsor of FC Barcelona in Japan until 2016. With this alliance FC Barcelona continues to build relationships with leading brands in priority markets, bringing Barça closer to its fans in the area. Growth in the Asia market has been a top priority of the Club’s Hong Kong office.

The official announcement of this agreement, which shall take effect on 1 November 2014 and shall be for two years, took place this Saturday at the Hilton Tokyo. Apamanshop Managing Director, Takashi Kawamori and Xavier Asensi, the Managing Director of FCB Asia Pacific attended the official presentation.

Through this alliance the Japanese firm has obtained the right to use the Barça image as well as those of the players, who will appear in Apamanshop marketing campaigns in public spaces, airport and other mass transportation publicity, shop decoration, or promotional products, among others.

The Board of Directors decided at today’s ordinary meeting to make Jordi Moix its new secretary, as well as president of the Disciplinary Commission. Toni Freixa, who has sat on the board since it won the elections in 2010, has departed.

Moix was assistant director of the Economy and Patrimony Department, where he was one of the main figures in promoting the new Espai Barça. He will continue to work in that role along with his two new positions.

Jordi Moix background

Jordi Moix (Barcelona, 12 November 1960) has a degree in Business Sciences from ESADE and a masters in International Management from the Thunderbird Graduate School in the USA. He has always worked in the real estate business and was the founding partner of Linq Venture (M&A and Real Estate consultants), having previously been director general of international promotion and expansion at Reyal Urbis (a leading company in the sector); director general in Catalonia for Metrovacesa (he was president of La Maquinista Vila Global SA); director general and member of the administrative council at Layetana, and director general of Habitat. He currently sits on the executive committee at Barcelona Urban Cluster-BUC, and was formerly president of the executive committee at ULI (Urban Land Institute) and has been a member of the Cercle d’Economia since 1988. He was director of the Economy and Patrimony Department at FC Barcelona between 2003 and 2005.

Other issues

As well as the changes in functions, Manel Arroyo also explained that the club will be sending a letter to the president of the National Pact on the Right to Decide, Joan Rigol, to reassert the stance that Sandro Rosell made regarding the political future of Catalonia at the 2013 assembly.

It was also reported that FC Barcelona has received the grounds for the verdict issued by the FIFA Appeals Tribunal. “The Legal Services are currently working on the appeal that will be presented over the next few days to the Sports Tribunal” explained Moix. “We obviously still have some discrepancies.”

On the Neymar matter, Manel Arroyo explained that the board has met the club attorney who is working on the matter, Cristòbal Martell. “After debating the situation we have decided that the club should continue to work on getting the case to the Administrative Court” said Arroyo.

Finally, the Board also presented the different actions that the Edelmira Calvetó Group will be promoting this season to promote and foster a greater role for women at the club.

The #CampNouExperience selfies completion ended in September with some incredible entrance figures. It has generated 2.76 million likes for more than 8,000 selfies in three months on the world’s leading photography social network, Instagram.

4,830 visitors to the FCB tour and museum have taken part in this international competition in which the pictures that get the most votes are the winners.

To end the contest, @pursuit_of_happiness_lmt has won the September prize for a picture that was liked over 19,000 times. The winner must now contact the club at campnouexperience@gmail.com in order to receive a first team football shirt. The July and August winners were @gossip_barcelona and @RAQUELCULEPIQUE.

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The Camp Nou selfies competition started with the promotional campaign ‘Your best moments to share in Barcelona’, an initiative to promote the Camp Nou and Museum as must-see visits for anybody travelling to the city. The competition was a way for visitors to the Camp Nou Experience to share their experience with the world via social networks.

Replay, an official partner of FC Barcelona, is presenting the new Replay Hyperflex jeans collection with an advert featuring first team players Neymar Jr, Gerard Piqué, Luis Suárez, Andrés Iniesta and Ivan Rakitic. All five perform wonders with the ball wearing the Italian company’s new jeans, whose main particularities are that their 100% elasticity, incredible adaptability and extraordinary comfort.

That is why FC Barcelona chose Replay Hyperflex jeans as the official casual clothing range for the football first team.

President Josep Maria Bartomeu has attended a European Club Association Executive Committee meeting at Stamford Bridge stadium in London.

This is the second time that the ECA Executive Committee has met this season, and is taking place as part of the annual Leaders in Football event at Stamford Bridge, which is attended by people involved in football management from all around the world.

Bartomeu, shown in the picture along with Theodoros Giannikos and Ausrys Labinas, representatives of Olympiakos FC and FK Ekranas, respectively, has been on the committee since last May, when he was appointed member of the UEFA Professional Football Strategy Council, a position that involves participating in the leading executive body for the association of clubs. The Barça president’s first appearance at an ECA Executive Committee meeting was at the first of the present season, held in Monaco in August. A third meeting is expected to be scheduled before the end of the year.

As part of the commemorations of the Museum’s 30th anniversary, this Wednesday FC Barcelona has set up a brand new activity for fans to write their personal histories of the club. The activity is taking place via a new microsite available in Catalan, Spanish or English and that can be accessed using any kind of device. It shows a selection of highlights from almost 115 years of club history, and fans can choose their favourites.

They’ve been divided into four different time periods (1899-1974, 1974-1992, 1992-2003 and 2003-2014) and participants pick four pictures from each to make their ‘infographic’ depicting their own personal FC Barcelona historical timeline.

Monthly draw for shirt

The infographic is personalised with the user’s name and photo and can be shared on social networks (Twitter, Facebook and Google+) using the hashtag #Museu30FCB or highlighted as a main action to celebrate the anniversary. All participants will also be entered for a monthly draw to win a shirt.

All of the images that were selected for the microsite appear on the history charts in the FC Barcelona Museum in the form of videos or photos showing glorious moments since the club was founded in 1899 right through to the present day.

Once the action has ended, FC Barcelona’s own infographic will be made using the pictures that were chosen the most often by the participants. This will be ‘The Barça history written by its fans’.

WRITE YOUR BARÇA HISTORY

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New functions

FC Barcelona Trivia Fans includes exclusive artwork and animation of the full FC Barcelona squad for the 2014/15 so you can fully enjoy the experience. This version includes a new game called 'Friends Duel,' where users can organise and participate in mini tournaments of 12 questions and can play with up to 30 friends at once. In addition, the new version is also available in Portuguese, with 2,500 questions in the language.

FC Barcelona Fans Trivia is available on four platforms: Android, iOS, Facebook and Amazon Kindle Fire OS. You can play in four languages: Spanish, Catalan, English, and Portuguese, and it will soon also be available in Japanese.
This application has been developed by Etermax, the company that has created applications like 'Aworded', 'Word Crack' and 'Trivia Crack', which have reached millions of users worldwide. FCB Trivia Fans is the first Etermax app developed in the world of of football.

Game topics

FCB Trivia Fans was presented in March of 2014 and has become an interactive was of leraning about the Club's immense history. Players can compete in categories like History, Players, Coaches, Trophies, Tidbits, and Matches which are randomly chosen by spinning a wheel. Since its release thousands of Barcelona fans around the world have competed to see who knows more about the Club.

The FC Barcelona website section FCB Apps has all of the Club's official apps.

FC Barcelona and Estrella Damm signed an agreement this lunchtime to extend the company’s position as Club sponsor until the end of the 2017/18 season. The deal was announced at an event held at the Antiga Fàbrica d’Estrella Damm attended by Damm CEO Enric Crous, Club President  Josep Maria Bartomeu, Economic Vice-President Javier Faus and the Club Director General, Antoni Rossich.

The extension agreement confirms Estrella Damm as a Premium Partner and exclusive Official Beer of FC Barcelona in most of the world, as well as strengthening the relationship between the two organisations.

The Estrella Damm brand will continue to be present at the Camp Nou and will strengthen its international presence via its connection with FCBarcelona.

Estrella Damm will continue to exclusively sponsor the video line up announcements at the Camp Nou at the start of each game, as well as the naming rights to the Festa del Gamper Estrella Damm, with the Estrella Damm logo present on all supports used during the Trophy. Estrella Damm will also name the Trophy’s man of the match.

The new deal also means Estrella Damm will continue to sponsor the Camp Nou’s gastronomy area  - The Camp Nou Lounge – which is situated in the main stand during the summer months and both parties have agreed to organise further event to strengthen the links between them and the Club’s supporters, similar to the “Viu el Barça com a casa” campaign, which saw Estrella Damm invite six fans to their VIP box at the Spanish Cup Final, accompanied by ex-Barça player Luis Garcia.

At the end of the signing ceremony, the directors of both institutions shared a toast to celebrate the deal at the Antiga Fàbrica d’Estrella Damm.

Estrella Damm and FC Barcelona

Since its foundation in 1876, Estrella Damm has had close links with sport and for many years has accompanied FC Barcelona in many moments of its history. The two organisations are both more than 100 years old and have carried out any number of activities together, both in Catalonia and abroad, and have worked to get closer to the Club’s fans and players, with whom they have shared so many titles and so much success down the years.

These actions include the Barça Champions open to bus which takes the players through the city streets on the many occasions when they win a title such as the Spanish League, Cup or Champions League or the celebration of the Festa del Gamper and the Man of the Trophy award held at the start of each season.

Estrella Damm have also filmed various promotional spots paying homage to the Club, such as the  ‘Amigo Amigo’, ‘El tovalló de Messi’ and ‘Què tenim?’ campaigns.

Damm also has its own prestigious academy system, which has brought through a number of players who have gone on to play for Barça’s first team.

This new agreement, set to last until the end of the 2017/18 season, gives continuity to the historic relationship between Estrella Damm and FC Barcelona and is sure to be full of further success for the Club, the company and the fans.

FC Barcelona have signed the Catalan National Pact for Self -Determination. The Club formalised their adhesion in a formal letter from President Josep Maria Bartomeu to the Pact Co-ordinator Joan Rigol. The Pact brings together over 3,500 organisations and associations from a wide spectre range of social and political positions which endorse the Catalan people's right to self-determination.

FC Barcelona has already signalled its position in favour of self-determination for Catalonia in a declaration made in the President’s Report at the 2013 Members Representatives Meeting – the maximum authority of the Club. In that statement, then President Sandro Rosell explained: “we will always be there for our country and for the will of its people. We defend the right to self-determination because that forms a part of the fundamental rights which all people and nations must have”.

President Josep Maria Bartomeu has frequently referred to this statement of principles when questioned about the Club’s position over recent months

FC Barcelona will once again be hosting the annual MuscleTech Network meeting, with the sixth edition due to be held on October 13 and 14 in the Auditori 1899.  The get together is organised by FC Barcelona, Aspetar and the Centre Tecnològic Leitat and supported by the Fundació FC Barcelona, the Fundación Leo Messi and Scharlau with support from the Generalitat de Catalunya, Esport.cat, Egarsat and Scharlab.

MuscleTech Network is a knowledge network for research and communication between specialists dedicated to improving sports medicine, promoting healthy lifestyles and sport and resolving social exclusion issues arising from muscle and tendon injuries. This year’s meeting will focus on in the field of new treatments for hamstring injuries and how to implement research findings into everyday treatments with presentations from the leading experts in the field and Club doctors Gil Rodas (who is also scientific director of MuscleTech Network), Lluís Til, José Antonio Gutiérrez, Xavier Valle, Ricard Pruna, Dani Medina, Xavier Yanguas and Jordi Puigdellívol.

The world’s biggest social network, Facebook, is at the forefront of the Barça 2.0 strategy, not just for the 93 million Club fans but also for the189 million followers of the 15 first  team stars, who themselves have 189 million followers.

Leo Messi is the Barça player with most followers on Facebook after passing the 73.5 million fans, ahead of Neymar Jr (47,3), Andrés Iniesta (22,8) and Gerard Piqué (15,7). The Messi-Neymar duo are proving as lethal on Facebook as they are on the pitch, with 50 million new fans between them since the start of the year and the great start to the season has consolidated the pair’s growth coming off the 2014 Brazil World Cup finals.

Five of this season’s signings have also added to the team’s presence on Facebook, with Luis Suárez topping the 10 million mark alongside Thomas Vermaelen (1,4), Rafinha (709.000), Rakitic (661.000) and Ter Stegen (387.000).

Club is global leader

The new official FC Barcelona accounts on Facebook have taken the total of Club fans on Facebook to 93.400.000 to maintain Barça’s position as a world leader on social networks. The Club’s main page has more than 76.5 million followers to add to the four main sections’ pages and those of the Fundació, FCBMasia, FCB Penyes and Barça TV. So far in  2014, the Club’s accounts have attracted more than 39 million new followers – at an average of 139,000 a day – more than the capacity of the Camp Nou!