{"id":202985,"date":"2025-06-21T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202985\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T16:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:47:14","slug":"hes-a-great-goalkeeper-luis-de-la-fuente-talks-joan-garcias-spain-hopes-after-barcelona-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202985\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s a great goalkeeper\u2019 &#8211; Luis de la Fuente talks Joan Garcia\u2019s Spain hopes after Barcelona move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"I892Wu\">Spain boss Luis de la Fuente has told new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/6\/20\/24452684\/my-goal-is-to-win-a-lot-joan-garcia-speaks-for-the-first-time-as-barcelonas-new-goalkeeper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona goalkeeper Joan Garcia<\/a> that he can expect a call-up to the national team in the future.<\/p>\n<p id=\"QPLVHq\">Garcia has swapped Espanyol from Barcelona this summer and is expected to be Hansi Flick\u2019s first choice next season at Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XpxkPd\">De la Fuente has been full of praise for Garcia but has also warned the 24-year-old he is facing plenty of competition for a place in the Spain squad.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"qhLOOU\">\u201cHe\u2019s a great goalkeeper. I brought him to the U21 team. He\u2019ll definitely come. We\u2019ll see what his situation is when the season starts,\u201d he told Marca.<\/p>\n<p id=\"RG7g8q\">\u201cBut be careful, the best goalkeepers in the world are Spanish, and they\u2019re on the national team. <\/p>\n<p id=\"Vc3HO1\">\u201cI\u2019ll say it very clearly: they\u2019re the best, and we\u2019re very happy with them. And Joan will of course come to the national team when we see fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"AdNz6o\">Spain\u2019s next fixtures are in September when La Roja take on Bulgaria and Turkiye in World Cup 2026 qualifying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain boss Luis de la Fuente has told new Barcelona goalkeeper Joan Garcia that he can expect a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[14040,14120,48427,199,53811,48429,48430,48428,81850,2000,299,163,81851,35093,81848,14728,21023,81852,69159,48425,81849,14366,2955,104,47583],"class_list":{"0":"post-202985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-barca","11":"tag-barcelona","12":"tag-barcelona-internationals","13":"tag-barcelona-la-liga","14":"tag-barcelona-team-news","15":"tag-blaugranes","16":"tag-de","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-front-page","20":"tag-fuente","21":"tag-garcia","22":"tag-goalkeeper","23":"tag-great","24":"tag-he","25":"tag-hopes","26":"tag-joan","27":"tag-la","28":"tag-luis","29":"tag-move","30":"tag-s","31":"tag-spain","32":"tag-talks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114722376484588450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}