{"id":57537,"date":"2025-08-04T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57537\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:26:11","slug":"he-would-make-a-good-captain-pau-cubarsi-hails-barcelonas-inigo-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57537\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He would make a good captain\u2019 – Pau Cubarsi hails Barcelona\u2019s Inigo Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pau Cubarsi has been chatting about his relationship with Inigo Martinez after forming an excellent partnership with the veteran in the heart of the Barcelona backline.<\/p>\n

Martinez is almost twice Cubarsi\u2019s age but the 18-year-old says they help each other out on the pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy relationship with him isn\u2019t like that of a father and son, but it\u2019s essential because of his experience,\u201d he told AS.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a good connection. He always tries to help me, and I help him in my own way. He\u2019s a leader, he has character, and he helps us. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe would undoubtedly make a great captain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cubarsi also backed Marc-Andre ter Stegen to continue with the armband amid speculation he could lose the captaincy at the club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very calm. He\u2019s our captain, and we\u2019re delighted that he is,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always helped me from the start. We\u2019ve encouraged him, and he encourages us for the games. Nothing has been said here; we want him as captain. He\u2019s been here for many years and has a Champions League title. For us, he\u2019s number one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The defender is one of several Barcelona players to come out and back Ter Stegen recently in regards to the captaincy. <\/p>\n

The players are expected to vote on the team\u2019s leaders before the start of the new campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pau Cubarsi has been chatting about his relationship with Inigo Martinez after forming an excellent partnership with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[571,422,418,1480,1481,423,13830,43372,16730,424,3262,43373,4392,43374,406,43375,30456,419,403,99,4808],"class_list":["post-57537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-a","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-blaugranes","tag-captain","tag-cubarsi","tag-fc-barcelona-preseason","tag-front-page","tag-good","tag-hails","tag-he","tag-inigo","tag-make","tag-martinez","tag-pau","tag-s","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}