AMSTERDAM, Netherlands \u2014 Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen joined Ajax on loan from Barcelona on Tuesday as he aims to revive his national-team career with new coach J\u00fcrgen Klopp.<\/p>\n
Ajax said the 34-year-old Ter Stegen signed a season-long deal that reunites him with the storied club\u2019s new coach M\u00edchel S\u00e1nchez. <\/p>\n
Ter Stegen had a complicated 12th season with Barcelona and moved to Catalonian neighbor Girona on loan in January.<\/p>\n
After three straight World Cups as understudy to Manuel Neuer, including a title in 2014, Ter Stegen was not selected for a fourth this summer. Germany went out in the round of 32 against Paraguay.<\/p>\n
Ter Stegen played the last of his 44 games for Germany in June 2025 at the Nations League final four mini-tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarc has an outstanding track record, and his qualities are widely recognized,\u201d Ajax technical director Jordi Cruijff said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Ter Stegen is the second Germany international joining the Amsterdam club, which is seeking to rebound from a chaotic season that ended in fifth place in the Dutch Eredivisie.<\/p>\n
Julian Brandt last week signed a three-year deal as a free agent after his Borussia Dortmund contract expired.<\/p>\n
Ajax already started in the qualifying rounds of the third tier Conference League and hosts Shelbourne on Friday in a first-leg game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMSTERDAM, Netherlands \u2014 Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen joined Ajax on loan from Barcelona on Tuesday as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,1743,5534],"class_list":["post-65566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-soccer","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65566","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=65566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}