Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu will lead a delegation of representatives from the Catalan club in a meeting with FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Thursday.

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Infantino has been in charge of world football's governing body since February 2016 but he has not yet met with Barça. Bartomeu will travel to Zurich for the meeting and will be joined by vice president Jordi Mestre, director of professional sports Albert Soler and executive Raul Sanllehi.

The objective of the meeting is to make contact with the new FIFA boss to establish a relationship moving forward. Barça previously decided to break off relations with the organisation after they were banned from signing players for two transfer windows.

Since then, the Blaugrana have not had a relationship with FIFA, save their presence at the Club World Cup in Japan last December. That trophy, though, was not awarded by Sepp Blatter but by Angel Maria Villar, who was vice president at the time.

FIFA, now under Infantino's rule, have since handed the same transfer ban to Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid for breaking rules regarding the signing of minors. Barcelona are heading into the meeting with the idea of forgetting the past and starting from zero.