Holiday surprise in the Barcelona training camp » The car company from the Emirates handed out golden gifts!
Article by Daniel Scorpie – Published Thursday, December 11, 2025, 6:19 p.m. / Updated Thursday, December 11, 2025, 6:26 p.m.
Hansi Flick's FC players Barcelona they had an unexpected visit to the Ciutat Esportiva. The Spanish champions received their Christmas presents from GSA Motors. It is about gold-plated iPhone 17Pro Max phones, personalized with the name, number on the shirt and bearing the logo of the Blaugrana club, each smartphone worth around 10,000 euros.
Christmas came early this year at the Ciutat Esportiva, Barcelona's training ground. Although no training was scheduled today, several players turned up at the training base to do the recovery program after the 2-1 win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League.
According to information obtained by SPORT newspaper from sources within the club, before the training session at the fitness room, a small group of representatives of GSA Motors, a company in the United Arab Emirates that rents and sells luxury cars, surprised players with gifts consisting of iPhone 17 Pro Max smartphones in gold color.
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“It was a surprising and quite unexpected gesture, given that, according to sources within Barcelona, there are no plans for any kind of sponsorship or partnership with the company from the United Arab Emirates,” writes the Catalan daily.
Each mobile phone has the name of the player it is intended for, his shirt number and the Barcelona and GSA Motors logos printed on the back. The price of each device, without customization, is around 3,500 euros.
A year ago, Raphinha presented Lamine Yamal with the latest custom gold-plated iPhone model as a reward for winning the KOPA trophy. And, according to SPORT estimates, it was worth approximately 10,000 euros. The price may not be much different in this case either.
At the end of 2025, when Barcelona traveled to Saudi Arabia to play the Spanish Super Cup, all the players also received a golden phone, this time provided by the company International Data Group (IDG).
