The confessions of Marc-André Ter Stegen on his signing by the FC Barcelona

Although it keeps a seriousness imperturbable in the terrains of game, out of them Marc-André Ter Stegen is an open and near person. The German adapted very fast to the life in the City Condal, and now has reviewed his path in an interview for the portal web 'The Players' Tribune'.

"It is an honour lucir the Barcelona colours, really are more than a club. The Barça is much more that football for me. The city, the fans... Never you seat you only. The people has put it to me very easy, could not be happier", explains trusted the one of Mönchengladbach, that also has revealed how produced his signing does already some years.

"For a goalkeeper with my style, the Barça was a big opportunity"

"I decided to sign, mainly, by two reasons. The first, like that of game, since for a goalkeeper that uses so much the feet, is a big opportunity come to a team that plays so much with the balloon. The second, when Zubizarreta explained me what meant to come to this big club and his big history", has commented.

Although it does some week the ex technical secretary culé did not want to award the merit to bring him, the germano has planted him like a key piece: "it explained Me as it was to go to a new club, in a new city and what supposed to be a player of the Barça. It was a simple and friendly person, and always thought that the only team by which would be able to leave the Borussia was the Barça".

A simple start in the Barça

His career to the titularity was not a way of roses, but Ter Stegen ensures that in the changing room yes went in with good foot, partly thanks to the good will of his mates: "Rakitic speaks German and Rafinha English, and both helped me a lot to adapt me and understand some instructions of the trainer".

"Still like this, I wanted to learn Spanish to be able to keep conversations with all, and that's why from the first day had classes to learn well the language", reflexiona, something that nowadays tests the perfect Spanish that speaks, in addition to the calurosa sacked that it devoted him to the Brazilian when it left yielded to the Inter of Milan.

The football, part of the life of Ter Stegen

During his conversation, the guardameta also explains as they were his starts in the goal, that arrived of a form a so much peculiar: "During a party, our goalkeeper received a pelotazo in the nose and I put me under sticks. I was leading, loved me mark goals. But I did it well and little by little it went me liking more play of goalkeeper". 

"It was used to to play to the football with my brother in the garage of my grandparents, and went precisely my grandfather the one who achieved that it went in in the inferior categories of the Borussia Mönchengladbach, where began all and grew like footballer", signals, adding that when they said him that it could not play more in tip had clear what had to do to remain .

"The football joins to the world, is a language that understands all the world. It is a sport that is for all, is passion, is love", confesses the crack Barcelona. And it is that in addition to living his profession with a grandísima capacity of concentration, Ter Stegen lives it like part of his life. And it enjoys it like which more.