{"id":24269,"date":"2026-05-16T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24269\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:00:10","slug":"were-very-close-fermin-lopez-talks-barcelonas-burning-desire-to-win-the-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24269\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re very close\u2019 \u2013 Fermin Lopez talks Barcelona\u2019s \u2018burning desire\u2019 to win the Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fermin Lopez says Barcelona\u2019s players aren\u2019t obsessed with winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barcelona-uefa-champions-league\/117697\/atletico-madrid-barcelona-la-liga-final-score-match-report-recap-reactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Champions League;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Champions League&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Champions League<\/a> but do have a \u201cburning desire\u201d to bring the European Cup back to the Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona have made it to the semi-finals and the quarter-finals under Hansi Flick and will go again next season, hoping to end their wait to be crowned European champions once more.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez says that he feels the team are close to Champions League success and that they are heading in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cObviously, yes. We\u2019re not obsessed with the Champions League because it\u2019s a tough competition, and we\u2019re the ones who want to win it the most. We have that burning desire to win it, and we\u2019re very close; we just need one more step, and I think we\u2019re on the right track. Hopefully, we can win it next year,\u201d he told Qu\u00e8 Thi Jugues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe Champions League is all about the small details. I think we were having a really good Champions League run. In the first leg, they scored two goals against us and had a player sent off, which made things very difficult, but we still had chances to equalize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIn the second leg, we were playing a great game, and after my injury, the game cooled down, and it was better for them, and we couldn\u2019t come back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBut I think we\u2019re very close to reaching a Champions League final. And I think we have to keep going like this, with the same mentality, because anything can happen in the Champions League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona are hoping to strengthen their squad in the summer in a bid to try and win the Champions League next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fermin Lopez says Barcelona\u2019s players aren\u2019t obsessed with winning the Champions League but do have a \u201cburning desire\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,12913,187,223,931,930,83,17,2584],"class_list":{"0":"post-24269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-burning-desire","10":"tag-champions-league","11":"tag-fc-barcelona","12":"tag-fermin-lopez","13":"tag-hansi-flick","14":"tag-real-madrid","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-the-champions-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}