{"id":823,"date":"2025-08-08T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:44:01","slug":"official-barcelona-strip-ter-stegen-of-captains-armband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/official-barcelona-strip-ter-stegen-of-captains-armband\/","title":{"rendered":"OFFICIAL: Barcelona strip Ter Stegen of captain&#8217;s armband"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-11-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona on Thursday said they had stripped Marc-Andre ter Stegen of the captain&#8217;s armband in a continuing dispute over the German goalkeeper&#8217;s fitness status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As a consequence of the disciplinary proceedings initiated against player Marc-Andre ter Stegen, and until such proceedings are definitively resolved, the club\u2026 has decided to temporarily remove him as captain of the first football team,&#8221; Barca said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said vice-captain Ronald Araujo, a Uruguayan defender, would take over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media, the dispute centres on 33-year-old Ter Stegen&#8217;s refusal to cooperate with an attempt to have him classified by La Liga as a long-term injury case, which would allow the club to deduct part of his pay from their official wage bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new Liga season approaching, Barcelona are again struggling to satisfy Spanish financial fair play rules. If they cannot, they may not be able to register new players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club plans to partly reopen its expensively renovated Camp Nou stadium this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two seasons marred by injury, Ter Stegen decided to undergo back surgery at the end of July. He has refused to sign a form releasing his medical data to La Liga, preventing Barcelona&#8217;s attempt to have him officially declared a long-term absentee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His place is under threat from one of the summer signings, 24-year-old Joan Garcia, and 35-year-old Wojciech Szczesny, the Polish veteran who has been rewarded with a contract extension for taking over during last season&#8217;s Liga title-winning campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German goalkeeper, the last remaining member of Luis Enrique&#8217;s 2015 European champion team, faces heavy penalties under La Liga regulations, including the termination of his contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona on Thursday said they had stripped Marc-Andre ter Stegen of the captain&#8217;s armband in a continuing dispute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}