{"id":75190,"date":"2026-08-24T18:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/75190\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:58:27","slug":"after-his-departure-from-barcelona-ter-stegen-announces-happy-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/75190\/","title":{"rendered":"After his departure from Barcelona: Ter Stegen announces happy news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s Marc-Andre ter Stegen, the Barcelona goalkeeper on loan at Ajax Amsterdam, is a father for the third time. He and new partner Oona Selares have welcomed their first child together.\n<\/p>\n<p>The goalkeeper announced the arrival on his &#8220;Instagram&#8221; account, where he and Selares posted several pictures of their daughter, named &#8220;Sophie&#8221;, who was born last Sunday, according to the German newspaper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/sport\/fussball\/ter-stegen-und-seine-neue-freundin-im-baby-glueck-6a8c2e936d71b45dbda0f8f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bild<\/a>&#8220;.\n<\/p>\n<p>The whole family featured in those photos. Ter Stegen and his new partner posed alongside his two sons, Ben, aged 6, and Tom, aged two, from his previous marriage.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sophie&#8217;s birth comes around a year after ter Stegen went public with Selares. He revealed the relationship in June 2025, shortly after announcing his separation from his first wife, Daniela.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ter Stegen had been with Daniela since 2012 before marrying her in 2017. The couple announced their separation in March 2025, after years of marriage that produced two children.<\/p>\n<p>You can discuss the topics and news in greater depth in the &#8220;Kooora&#8221; forums<\/p>\n<p>Even after the split, the goalkeeper insisted he wanted to keep things amicable with Daniela for the sake of their children. They live close to one another, he explained, which lets him see the boys every day.\n<\/p>\n<p>The happy news arrives while ter Stegen is chasing stability on the pitch too. He has endured a difficult spell, with injuries ruling him out of the Germany squad for the 2026 World Cup.\n<\/p>\n<p>He remains under contract with Barcelona until 2028, but moved to Ajax Amsterdam on loan on 4 August.\n<\/p>\n<p>The move has started well. Ajax stayed unbeaten across their first three matches, and ter Stegen kept a clean sheet in the victory over PEC Zwolle in the Dutch league.\n<\/p>\n<p>A new chapter, then, on and off the pitch. Ter Stegen has welcomed his third child while working to rediscover his form and standing at Ajax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Marc-Andre ter Stegen, the Barcelona goalkeeper on loan at Ajax Amsterdam, is a father for the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6425,1822,92,24578,28749,24663,85,24689,28748,28747],"class_list":["post-75190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-ajax","tag-athletic-bilbao","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-vs-athletic-bilbao","tag-conference-league-qualification","tag-eredivisie","tag-laliga","tag-m-ter-stegen","tag-sion","tag-telstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75190","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=75190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}