In addition to changing club for the first time in his life being the player with the most titles in the history of Barca Handball (74), the exit this summer of Aitor Ariño Towards him Füchse Berlin German also left one of the four captains of the Barça.
The Catalan club announced on Tuesday that the Portuguese Luis Frade That vacancy will cover as the fourth captain and will join the group with the first captain, the Frenchman Dika memyour compatriot Tim I’m Guessan (2nd) and the Esloveno Blaz Janc (3º).
N'Guessan and Janc rise a ranks in the hierarchy because Ariño was the second captain. The technician Carlos Ortega I had already talked about this issue with the template before all going on vacation.
“I am very happy to enter the team's captains.
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The return of Ludovic Fàbregas After two seasons in the Veszprem He also put on the table the possibility that the French recovered one of the captains that he lost when his signing was confirmed by the Hungarian team.
Ortega He was going around the matter, but finally leaned for rewarding Frade, who took an obvious step forward after the march of Fàbregas and has also become one of the best pivots in the world. In fact, Ludo and Luis will surely form this season the best pivot couple in Europa.
“I am very happy to enter the list of captains of the team. I feel like another step in my career in Barça. It's a pride”
Ortega has already talked about this issue with Fàbregas, who perfectly understood the situation and promotion of Frade as a new captain. The Portuguese arrived at Barça in 2020 as one of the younger pivots with the greatest international projection and, therefore, will now begin his sixth season in Barcelona. After his firm evolution in the team, Frade had good offers from abroad, but last April he renewed with Barça until 2029.
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In his day, Fàbregas lost his rank of captain as it happened later to Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas for its signing with the Tw kiel German. Since then, Dika mem He inherited the first captain bracelet.
“I want captains in my team that have a specific weight in the game and the costumes, in the two facets or in one of the two, and that have all the conditions to retire here. It is what I have suckled, it is what I think and, if you think farther back, is what normally happens in the club,” Ortega explained when it was learned that Gonzalo ceased to be the captain.
The coach made that decision even though a player was unpopular to be a player very dear to the fans and who already had half a life in BarcelonaWell, he arrived at the club with 16 years.
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“I am not here to make popular decisions. The decision is totally mine,” Ortega said. “The day someone gets into the internal decisions of the team, I am not here. With Gonzalo he is totally spoken. My relationship with Gonzalo is totally fluid, there is no problem. From the previous season, when we had some conversation, he already knew that if he decided to leave the club we were going to take away the captaincy, as we removed last year of the group of captains also to ludo. The Barça coach then said.
