{"id":65686,"date":"2026-08-04T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/65686\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:53:27","slug":"germany-goalkeeper-ter-stegen-joins-ajax-on-loan-from-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/65686\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany goalkeeper Ter Stegen joins Ajax on loan from Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) \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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ajax said<\/a> 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.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ter Stegen had a complicated 12th season<\/a> 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<\/a> 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<\/a> 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

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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen joined Ajax on loan from Barcelona on Tuesday as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,223,865,26293,26294,21592,2422,1743,396],"class_list":["post-65686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-germany","tag-jordi-cruijff","tag-juergen-klopp","tag-julian-brandt","tag-manuel-neuer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65686","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=65686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}