"Barcelona" started preparing for a new season. © EuroFootball.com

The training base of the Spanish champions has come back to life - teams' football players started to gather there after their summer holidays.

A health check-up for the players is scheduled for Monday, and starting from Tuesday training sessions will take place twice a day - in the mornings and evenings.

Preparation for the season has begun for Oier Olazabal, Jose Manuel Pinto, Martin Montoya, Marc Bartra, Javier Mascherano, Adriano Correia, Alex Song, Sergi Roberto, Jonathan dos Santos, Ibrahim Afellay, Isaac Cuenca, Alexis Sanchez, Lionel Messi and Christian Tello.

The Barcelona players who participated in the Confederations Cup - Spaniards and Brazilians - still have two weeks of vacation and will gather at the club's training base on July 29.

On July 20, Barcelona will play their first friendly match against the "Lechia" team in the Polish city of Gdansk.