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World Sports: Barcelona hopes to renew Eric Garcia, players demand to feel their importance

8:49pm, 19 May 2025【Football】

May 19th According to the World Sports Report, in the final stage of the 2024-25 season, few Barcelona players are as surprising as Eric Garcia. He started in the last four games and showed high levels at right back position. With his outstanding performance and adaptation to the team's needs, he became a key player for Flick.

Against Villarreal on Sunday, he played well again, not only creating a goal opportunity for Lewandowski through crosses, but also assisting Yamal's goal. Eric Garcia has always put the interests of the team first and his professionalism has always been praised. He replaced Comte, one of the best full-backs of the season, without disappointing at all.

Faced with opponents like Inter Milan and Real Madrid, he successfully curbed the attacks of Dimarco and Vinicius, and also showed excellent abilities on the offensive end, cooperating with Yamal. He scored important goals in key games: at Meazza Stadium, he tied the score 1-2; in the national derby at Montwhich Stadium, he also successfully helped the team.

started for four consecutive games, and once again demonstrated his steady defense, wisdom in the opponent's penalty area and super predictive ability. This season, Eric Garcia has served as right back, right center back, left center back and midfielder. Each position requires a different role, his talent, intelligence and technical strength are undoubtedly a great help to the coach, and his low-key leadership has also had a profound impact in the locker room and fans.

Eric Garcia's contract will expire in 2026 and the club hopes to renew his contract, depending on the attitude of the players at the beginning of the negotiations. What he asked for was to feel his importance in the team, and that was already fulfilled.