{"id":520123,"date":"2026-01-16T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:25:10","slug":"the-best-in-the-world-marc-casado-goes-crazy-for-joan-garcia-after-barcelonas-copa-del-rey-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520123\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The best in the world\u2019 &#8211; Marc Casado goes crazy for Joan Garcia after Barcelona\u2019s Copa del Rey win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia made a crucial late block to prevent the game from going into extra-time as Hansi Flick\u2019s side booked their spot in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Casado said after the game that he thinks Barca\u2019s No. 1 is the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWhat Joan Garcia has done is incredible. He wins us points in the league and today he almost won us the tie. He\u2019s the best in the world,\u201d he told Barca TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pau Cubarsi also had a few words for the goalkeper, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s good to have a goalkeeper like Joan who saves you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia is certainly enjoying life right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He put in a stellar showing against former club Espanyol at the start of January, won the Spanish Super Cup with Barca in Saudi Arabia and has once again showed what a brilliant signing he is in the Copa del Rey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garcia made a crucial late block to prevent the game from going into extra-time as Hansi Flick\u2019s side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":520124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2618,230783,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-520123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona-team-news","9":"tag-barcelona-copa-del-rey","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115904297225793941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}