The choice of captains in other great clubs, from PEP to Luis Enrique

As he advanced Joan Piquí in MDthe coach of FC Barclona Hansi Flick It will have an active participation in the election of the captains of the first Barca team 2025-26, novelty this season regarding the precedents, in which it was the soccer wardrobe who exclusively chose their representatives. Last season they were, in this order. Marc-Andre, Ronald Araujo, Jong's Furniture, Four Consults and Raphinha Dias And, although the club is disgusted with the goalkeeper, it will allow the squad to vote for its bearers of the bracelet, although Flick will have a voice and vote. The sports vice president Rafael Yustebefore flying from Kobe back to Barcelona to talk to DecoBarca Sports Director, he warned that the matter of the Captaincy “is a thing of the coach and the team.” The formula of ascending to Captain is Variopinta, according to the time and according to the club. In Barça, for example, at the time when Johan Cruyff He sat on the bench, the coach was not exactly a spectator in the election of a figure that he considered fundamental, even coining the famous expression of “sacred cows” to refer to the players with more responsibility towards the group. There are currently various examples in that management and some may surprise.

In it Manchester City Pep Guardiola This summer embodies the most personalist version, surely as a reaction to the failed previous season in terms of sports performance of your team. The march of two illustrious as Kevin de Bruyne y Kyle Walker Discomforts the llidness between players, so Guardiola appointed Bernardo Silva as first captain, with Rubén days, Rodri and Erling Haaland of bracelet carriers. “I'm going to make a boss. I am the coach and, for the first time in my career, I have decided who will be my captains. I did not like last year and I decided who will represent the team. Sometimes I want to be the boss,” he said. If something does not work, it is time to reinvent yourself. “Haaland is very young, but you have to start learning what it means to be a captain because, sooner or later, it will occupy that position as first,” he explained. “Bernardo has been an incredible figure, Ruben doesn't need to say what has been and Rodri, the same,” he added.

Luis Enrique Martínez's PSG It is now at the other end of the table to the City of Guardiola. The former PEP partner in Barça in his football player's time is, against appearances, who less intervenes in this matter. When in the summer of 2024 a megaestrella like Kyklian Mbappé decided to leave the PSG to sign for Real Madrid the technician of the Parisian club said he was “to control all things, all, without exception.” A year later, his team won everything, including the desired Champions League, except the Final of the Club World Cup, and curiously Luis Enrique explained him by distancing himself, “what you think today is worth today and for tomorrow if you earn, but for the past no longer, because the rivals adapt continuously. The less control, the better I have that the rival does not know what we are going to do and late. Our work as a staff to try to get out of that area and stop controlling things to be unpredictable, “he recently argued. In their first season in Paris, the PSG players chose their captains in the figures of Marquinhos, Danilo Pereira, Prenel Kimpembe and Kylian Mbappé, in their second season, the historic 2024-25, the players chose Marquinhos as the main captain and Achraf Hakimi, Gianluigi Donnaruma and presene Vicecapitanes. Despite his interventionist image, Luis Enrique defended in August 2024 that in his opinion the captain represents his teammates, not the coach, so they corresponded that role that falls to Marquinhos since 2020, when Thiago Silva went to Chelsea. For September, bracelets are usually formalized in the Princes Park.

Real Madrid He puts, as in almost everything, the club as a source of all decisions. The outputs of Luka Modrić and Lucas Vázquez leave two of the bracelets vacancies and have joined the vinicius junior. And Thibaut Courtois. The main captaincy becomes the side Dani Carvajal. Federico Valverde remains as a second captain. As reported that the decision was taken jointly by the directive of Florentino Pérez and the new coach, Xabi Alonso.

He Atlético de Madridwith the figure of the technician Diego Pablo Simeone Starting its fourteenth season on that bench, adopts a hybrid formula that starts from the locker room. The “Cholo” does not directly choose the captains, but the technical staff and the costumes usually make that decision looking for those players who represent the values and leadership that is intended to enhance. Jorge Resurrection, 'Koke', in the first team since 2009, renewed a contract and is the eternal captain, seconded by Jan Oblak and José María Giménez.

He Bavaria de Munich It is a club with a traditionally very strong dome, in which the voices of its legends are heard in any matter. The Bundesliga champion has not yet made an official announcement about the Captaincy for the 2025-2026 season. However, it is unlikely that Manuel Neuer Do not continue as the first captain, a rank that has been held since 2017. Also, after its renewal, there is Joshua Kimmich, who lived the curious case of being before captain of the German team that Bayern.

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LiverpoolChampion of the Premier League, is restructuring his cast of soccer players with very important arrivals such as those of Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike and, probably, Alexander Isak, coach Arne Slot confirmed that there will be a new vice -care but did not want to give the name. Of course, at the top of the pyramid is one more season the central Dutch Virgil van Dijk the march of the side Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid this summer left a vacancy in the club. The communication control of the Dutch coach regarding who will be Vicecapitán corroborates its importance in this matter. It is speculated in Anfield that Mohamed Salah would be the main candidate, but Alisson and Andy Robertson also sound. “There is enough leadership in the group at this time, it is already determined, but I will not say who,” said Arne Slot.

In Barça, Captaincy's choice process is still pending, but it will not take long to confirm the bracelets. Choose the costumes. And in the locker room there is also Flick.