{"id":640497,"date":"2026-10-08T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640497\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:36:08","slug":"%e2%9c%8d%ef%b8%8fstarlet-secured-xavi-espart-signs-new-barcelona-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640497\/","title":{"rendered":"\u270d\ufe0fStarlet secured: Xavi Espart signs new Barcelona deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Barcelona have reached an agreement with academy graduate Xavi Espart to extend his contract until June 30, 2030. The contract will be formally signed in the coming days alongside president Joan Laporta.<\/p>\n<p>Development and debut under Flick&#8217;s guidance<\/p>\n<p>Having joined La Masia in the summer of 2015, the young footballer made his first-team debut under Hansi Flick in March 2026, in the Champions League clash against Newcastle at St. James&#8217; Park. After making six appearances in the 2025\/26 campaign\u2014in which he won the LALIGA title\u2014he was confirmed as a permanent member of the first-team squad on August 27.<\/p>\n<p>A promising start to the season<\/p>\n<p>In the current 2026\/27 season, the academy graduate has already made five appearances, scoring his first competitive goal in a Bar\u00e7a shirt and providing two assists.<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. <a data-ylk=\"slk:You can read the original version in \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;You can read the original version in \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 here.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/es\/noticias\/la-joya-blindada-xavi-espart-renueva-contrato-con-barcelona-43580450\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">You can read the original version in \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona have reached an agreement with academy graduate Xavi Espart to extend his contract until June 30,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-640497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}